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CH 17
STUDY GUIDE
RECONSTRUCTING THE UNION
PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS
1. Benjamin Montgomery & political power
2. Reconstruction & North-South economic and political relations
3. Lincoln’s plan & the Wade-Davis bill
4. Lincoln’s & Johnson’s reconstruction plans
5. The Radical Republicans & reconstruction
6. The southern response to war’s end
7. President Andrew Johnson’s presidential reconstruction:
8. The Radical-dominated Reconstruction Congress
9. The Black Codes
10. Johnson & Congressional Radicals
11. The initial southern post-war governments
12. The Moderate program for reconstruction
13. Congressional moderates & Johnson’s veto of a civil rights bill
14. The Congressional Reconstruction program in 1866-1867
15. The Fourteenth Amendment
16. The Fifteenth Amendment
17. Andrew Johnson & impeachment charges
18.The power of the Radicals in Congress
19. Congress hesitation to convict Johnson
20. African Americans & political office in southern reconstruction governments
21. Southern economic redevelopment
22. Black post-war adoption of surnames
23. African Americans & an independent family
24. Post-war freedmen & sharecropping
25. The Freedmen’s Bureau:
26. Southern whites & fredmen
27. Southern “redemption”
28. Election of 1876
29. Democrats regain political control in the South
30. Reconstruction results
Chapter 17: Reconstructing the Union
MATCHING: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
a. The Twelfth Amendment
1. declared everyone born in the U.S. or
naturalized to be a citizen
b. The Thirteenth
Amendment
2. gave the vote to all adult male citizens
regardless of race or previous enslavement
c. The Fourteenth
Amendment
3. prohibited states from infringing on the equal
rights of citizens
d. The Fifteenth Amendment
4. abolished slavery
e. The Sixteenth
Amendment
5. disqualified Confederate leaders from holding
office
f. none of these
6. banned racial segregation in public
accommodations
COMPLETION
1. President Johnson’s home state of [
], in which he had served as
Senator and then ruled as military governor, ratified the Fourteenth Amendment against his
wishes, and was thus readmitted in 1866, before the Reconstruction Acts were passed.
2. The agency established in the War Department to aid former slaves was known
as [
].
3. The economic system whereby a farmer rents the land by paying not with cash but with a
fraction (often half) of the harvest is known as [
].
4. The epithet “[
]” was applied to the namesake
presidential administration that was so racked by scandal and corruption.
5. [
] finally won the 1876 election after an electoral commission
finally awarded him all of the disputed electoral votes from three southern states.
6. Ultimately, according to the authors of your text, wartime ideals and the goals of a real
Reconstruction were scuttled by a deep-seated [
] in America.
IDENTIFICATION
Students should be able to describe the following key terms, concepts, individuals, and places,
and explain their significance:
Terms and Concepts
Fourteenth Amendment
sharecropping
Mississippi plan
Freedmen’s Bureau
General Amnesty Act
black codes
scalawag
freedmen
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Wade-Davis Manifesto
Texas v. White
Fifteenth Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
redemption
Electoral Commission
Tenure of Office act
Wades-Davis bill
carpetbagger
Liberal Republicans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Radical Republicans
Compromise of 1877
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Chapter 17: Reconstructing the Union
Individuals and Places
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
Rutherford B. Hayes
Edwin Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Stone
Memphis riot
Ulysses S. Grant
Benjamin F. Wade
Samuel Tilden
Horace Greeley
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New Orleans riot
MAP IDENTIFICATIONS
Students have been given the following map exercise: On the map on the following page, label
or shade in the following places. In a sentence, note their significance to the chapter.
1. southern states where Reconstruction ended before 1872
2. southern states where Reconstruction ended between 1872 and 1876
3. southern states where Reconstruction ended after 1876
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