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Chapter 15

Section 1
What actions of President Johnson drove Moderate Republicans in Congress into cooperation with Radical Republicans and what laws were passed over Johnson's veto?

Section2
What tactics did white southern Democrats use to restrict or control black suffrage?

Section 3
What problems plagued southern agriculture and describe the movement towards a crop lien econmy?

Section 4-5
In what ways was reconstruction abandoned by the Republicans and why?  How did the end of Reconstruction occur?


What were the court cases at the end of Reconstruction and how did they relate to the end of Reconstruction?


How did the policies of the redeemer governments compare with those of the reconstruction governments?

 APUSH  Study Guide Chapter 15-16
FACTS: figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.
 


7. Charles Sumner
8. Thaddeus Stevens
9. Radical republicans
12. Anaconda plan
22. Charles Francis Adams
23. The Florida and Alabama
24. Cotton diplomacy
25. Confiscation Acts 
26. Emancipation Proclamation
27. Fort Pillow Massacre
32. Homestead Act
33. Morrill Land Grant Act
34. Copperheads
37. Elizabeth C. Stanton
 38. Susan B. Anthony
39. National Worman's Loyal League
40. National Union Party
41. Andrew Johnson
43. Lincoln's 10% plan
44. Wade-Davis Bill
45. 13th Amendment
46. black codes
47. debt peonage
48. Freedman's Bureau


 
 
 


49. Civil Rights Act of 1866
50. 14th Amendment
51. Reconstruction Act of 1867
52. Tenure of Office Act
53. 15th Amendment
54. carpetbaggers
55. scalawags
56. Ku Klux Klan
57. Enforcement Acts
58. Civil Rights Act 1875
59. Jay Gould 
60. Jim Fisk
61. Credit Mobilier
62. William Tweed
63. "Seward's Ice Box" Seward's Folly
64. Liberal Republicans
65. Horace Greeley
66. Greenback Party
67. Slaughterhouse cases
68. Mississippi Plan
69. Redemption
70. "Exodus" movement
71. Rutherford B. Hayes
72. Samuel Tilden
73. Compromise of 1877 
 


Essential Questions: Think about these questions before, during, and after the reading you do.  If you understand their complexity and feel confident in using information from the text and the supplementary reading in answering these very general questions, you should understand the period well. 
 

1. Explain how President Lincoln kept the 4 border states in the Union.

2. Why didn't the British recognize the Confederacy as a nation? What help did the British give the south?

3. Who were the Radical Republicans? On what grounds did they criticize Lincoln during the Civil War?

4. How were Blacks in the Union Army discriminated against?

5. What caused the draft riot in 1863?

6. What actions of President Johnson drove Moderate Republicans in Congress in to cooperation with Radical Republicans?

7. Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and some other feminists oppose the 15th amendment?

8. Why did the Liberal Republicans break with President Grant? What impact did the split have on Republican Reconstruction?

9. Explain how Supreme Court decisions in the 1870's and 1880's undermined Republican Reconstruction.
 


 
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