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Chapter 22 questions
Read pages 479- 487 very carefully and thoroughly and answer these questions:
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What four questions loomed after the Civil War?
What happened to the Confederate ringleaders after the war, in particular Jefferson Davis?
What had happened to banks, factories, farms and railroads in the South?
What had evaporated with emancipation?
Discuss the unevenness of emancipation for blacks.
Who were the Exodusters?
What became the focus of the Black community?
How did the American Missionary association attempt to help blacks?
For what reasons was the Freedman’s Bureau established? Who led the Freedman’s Bureau?
Were ex-slaves “given forty acres and a mule”?
How did the Freedman’s Bureau work against the freedman?
Discuss Andrew Johnson’s upbringing and political background.
Why could it be said (from a political and geographic point of view) that Andrew Johnson “was
the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time”?
What did President Lincoln believe about secession?
What were two parts of Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan?
Why did Congressional Republicans fear Lincoln’s Plan?
What was the Wade Davis Bill? What did Lincoln do to this bill?
What did the two different Congressional Republican groups believe about readmitting the
southern states back into the union?
What were the five parts of President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan?
Read pages 487-492 very carefully and thoroughly and answer these questions:
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What were the Black Codes designed to do?
How did black codes impact labor contracts with freedman?
Did the black codes stop freedman from voting?
Define sharecropping.
In 1865, when southern states presented themselves for re-admittance to the union, what
shocked northern politicians.
Defined “whitewashed rebels”.
What legislation had been passed while the Civil War waged that had benefitted the North?
How politically would the south be stronger after the Civil War? In what five ways could this
impact the nation?
What did the 1866 Civil Rights Bill do?
Why was the President called “Andy veto”?
What four things would the 14th Amendment do?
31) What did Johnson do to Freedman’s Bureau Bill and the Civil Rights Bill?
32) What was Johnson’s “Swing around the Circle”? Who won the Congressional off year elections
of 1866?
33) What Senator and Congressman led Radical Reconstruction?
34) What was the Joint Committee on Reconstruction?
35) What 4 things did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?
36) What did the 15th Amendment do?
37) What had Ex parte Milligan ruled?
38) What were “redeemers” or “Home Rule” regimes?
39) In 1877 the South became solidly what?
Read pages 492-499 carefully and thoroughly and answer these questions:
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What were the Reconstruction Era Amendments? What groups did they delight and upset?
Fifty years had to pass after the Reconstruction Era amendments for what to happen?
What were the goals of the Union League?
During Reconstruction how many blacks were elected as Congressmen and Senators?
Define scalawags and carpetbaggers.
Define New South.
What good reforms did radical southern governments pass?
What corruption could be found in Reconstruction governments?
What southern hate group was created to keep blacks down?
What did the Force Acts of 1870 / 1871 do?
In what three ways were blacks kept from voting in the South?
What did the Tenure of Office Act say?
What did the Command of Army Act say?
Why was President Johnson impeached?
Was Johnson found guilty and convicted of the impeachment charges?
How did the President pro-tempore of the Senate, Benjamin Wade, help President Johnson keep
his office?
56) Why were the Russians eager to sell Alaska? What Secretary of State arranged the purchased?
What was the purchased called and why? Why did Congress agree to the purchase?
57) What did Reconstruction ultimately confer on blacks and the Republican Party in the South?
Be sure to read pages 500-501 for different historical views on Reconstruction
Pages 504-513 of chapter 23 also fit into the Reconstruction Era and will therefore be part of the
Reconstruction Power Point and conclude the work for chapters 20 / 21 / 22 and a little bit of
23. These chapters cover the Civil War and Reconstruction Period 1861-1877.
Read pages 504-513 and answer these questions:
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By 1870 how many people lived in America? Why the surge in population?
What four negative things did the Civil War spawn?
Who did the Republicans nominate for President in 1868? What was his campaign slogan?
In 1868 who ran for the Democrats for President?
What was “waving the bloody shirt”?
Why did Grant get elected?
What did Jim Fisk and Jay Gould try to do?
What type of corruption did Boss Tweed practice?
Who were Thomas Nast and Samuel Tilden?
What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal all about?
What was the Whiskey Ring all about?
Define Grantism?
What third party emerged in 1872? What was their cause? Who did they run for President in
1872?
Who did the Republicans and Democrats nominate for President in 1872?
Who won the 1872 President election?
What impact did the Liberal Republicans have on the Republican Congress?
Was there a depression in 1873?
What did cheap money people support? What did hard money support?
What did the Resumption Act of 1879 do?
What was the Greenback Labor Party?
Who named the Gilded Age?
In the Gilded Age where did the political strength of both the Democrats and Republicans lie?
What party did freedman and the GAR vote for?
What was the lifeblood of both political parties?
Who ran for the Democrats and Republicans in the 1876 Presidential election?
After the election you led in the popular vote and electoral vote? What was the dispute?
What did the Electoral Count Act do?
What were the parts of the Compromise of 1877?
What did the Republicans abandon with the Compromise of 1877?
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?
What did the 1883 Civil Rights Cases decide?
Who were the Redeemers?
What were blacks forced into?
What did the crop-lien system cause?
What were Jim Crow Laws?
93) What did Plessy v. Ferguson decide?