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Reconstruction
Chapter 18
AP American History
Essay’s
1. How do account for the failure of Reconstruction (1865 – 1877) to bring social and economic equality of opportunity
to the former slaves?
2. “I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and
black races.”
How can this 1858 statement of Abraham Lincoln be reconciled with his 1862 Emancipation Proclamation?
3. Discuss the political, economic, and social reforms introduced in the South between 1864 and 1877. To what extent
did these reforms survive the Compromise of 1877?
4. Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to any TWO of the following in the United States
between 1865 to 1880
- Agriculture
- Labor
- Industrialization
- Transportation
5. Black leaders during Reconstruction had different views about segregation. Compare and Contrast the two views of
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois and explain which view you subscribe to.
Term’s
Reconstruction
Howard University
President Andrew Jackson
Radical Republicans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Tenure of Office Act 1867
Congressional Reconstruction
Liberal Republicans
Enforcement Act of 1870
White League
Croplien Laws
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Freedmen’s Bureau
Field Order No. 15
Henry McNeal Turner
Moderate Republicans
Thirteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Election of 1872
Election of 1876
Segregation
United States v. Cruikshank (1876)
The Impeachment of Andrew Jackson
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Southern Homestead Act
Ten Percent Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Black Codes
Fourteenth Amendment
Military Reconstruction Acts 1867
Civil Rights Act of 1875 “universal suffrage”
Carpetbaggers
Union Leagues
William R. Meadows
Tammany Hall
Impeachment
Redeemers
Compromise of 1877
Sharecropping
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington