Julian Roberts
History Period 6
Upper School 4
Key Questions:
1. What was the Compromise of 1877?
Reconstruction, Election Commission and Compromise of 1877
2. When the Republicans were campaigning what tactics did they use in the election
of 1868, 1872, 1876.
“waving the bloody shirt”, Election of 1876 and Hayes vs. Tilden
3. While Grant was in power there were economic/financial issues after the war.
What were they?
Inflation, Deflation, Panic of 1873, “Crime of ‘73”, Greenback Party, Gold standard/gold vs.
Greenbacks and/or silver, Specie Resumption Act of 1875,
4. What are the goals and intentions of the Ku Klux Klan and the White League?
Ku Klux Klan, “redemption”, “redeeming”, White League
5. Why did northerners come over to the south during the reconstruction period?
“carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”
6. What was the purpose of the “Black Friday” Scandal?
“Black Friday” Scandal, gold and silver
7. What was the purpose of the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
Credit Mobilier Scandal, Union Pacific Railroad
8. What was the purpose of the “Salary Grab Act”?
“Salary Grab Act”,
9. What was the purpose of Whiskey Ring Fraud?
Whiskey Ring Fraud
10. What did the 15th Amendment do?
15th Amendment, black suffrage, voting rights, Black Codes,
11. What happened in the Election of 1868?
Andrew Johnson, Election of 1868 and Grant, Radical Reconstruction, Congressional
Reconstruction
12. What did Congress do to help reconstruct the south?
Civil Rights Act, Freedman’s Bureau, veto, 13th,14th,15th Amendment,
13. What was the purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act?
Military Reconstruction Act, Congressional Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, Southern
Democrats
14. What did the Tenure of Office Act do?
Tenure of Office Act, Andrew Johnson
15. What were some of the foreign affairs that Johnson ran into?
Mexico, France and Maximilian, Alaska and Russia, Moneroe Doctrine, Seward’s Folly
16. What did Johnson do to help reconstruct?
Black Codes, 13th Amendment
17. What did Lincoln do to help reconstruct?
Freedman’s Bureau, Ten Percent Plan, Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens, Wade-Davis Bill,
pocket veto, Andrew Johnson
KEY TERMS:
Essentials:
Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau
Ten Percent Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Pocket veto
Black Codes
Moneroe Doctrine
Civil Rights Act
Military Reconstruction Act
Tenure of Office Act
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Black Friday
Credit Mobilier scandal
Union Pacific Railroad
Salary Grab Act
Radical Reconstruction/Congressional Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
Andrew Johnson
13th,14th,15th amendments
Redemption/Redeemers
Election of 1876 and Hayes vs. Tilden
“waving the bloody shirt”
Election Commission and Compromise of 1877
Mexico, France and Maximilian
Alaska and Russia
Seward’s Folly
Election of 1868 and Grant
Whiskey Ring Fraud
Gold standard/gold vs. Greenbacks and/or silver
Deflation vs. inflation
Crime of ‘73
Panic of 1873
Greenback Party
Specie Resumption Act of 1875
Packet:
Tyros, noxious, fallacy, rigmarole, turgid, redress, provost court, jurisdiction, squire, adjudication,
duodecimo, brevet, cats-paws, incubus, to the manner born, escutcheon, culpable