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Chapter 22
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Unit 3 – Testing the New Nation
Required Reading:
 Textbook: The American Pageant, Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen
o Chapter 23 (pages 487-509)
o Due: __________________________
 Historical Scholarship:
o
 Primary Sources:
o 13th Amendment
o 14th Amendment
o 15th Amendment
Exam:
 Multiple Choice Exam will be given with Chapters 22
 Exam Date: __________________________________
People to Know/Terms to Know from Chapter 22
 Optional Assignment – to be used as part of Curve Packet
Due: Day of Unit Exam, __________________________
Map
None
Reading Objectives:
 Required Homework Assignment
Due: ______________________________
Additional Assignments:
None
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Vocabulary
Chapter 22
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People to Know:
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oliver O. Howard
Andrew Johnson
Alexander Stephens
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
William Seward
Terms to Know:
Define and state the historical significance of the following:
Freedman’s Bureau
10 percent plan
Wade-Davis Bill
“conquered provinces”
Moderate Republican
Radical Republican
Black Codes
Exodusters
sharecropping
Civil Rights Act
Fourteenth Amendment
“swing around the circle”
Military Reconstruction
Act
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Vocabulary
Chapter 22
Fifteenth Amendment
Ex parte Milligan
“radical” regimes
scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Force Acts
Tenure of Office Act
“Seward’s Folly”
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Homework
Chapter 22
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Reading Objectives:
1. What were some of the key questions and challenges facing the nation after the Civil War
was over?
2. What happened to the confederate leaders after the Civil War?
3. What was the Southern economy like after the Civil War?
4. What was the Southern view of secession after the Civil War?
5. How did life change for emancipated blacks at the end of the Civil War?
6. What caused many free blacks to move after the Civil War?
7. What were “Exodusters”?
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What stopped the “Exodusters” movement?
8. What were the purposes and goals of the Freedmen's Bureau?
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How did southern whites view the Freedmen's Bureau?
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What did Andrew Johnson believe about the Freedmen's Bureau?
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What was the greatest achievement of the Freedman’s Bureau?
9. Why was Andrew Johnson chosen as Lincoln VP? As VP, what type of political reputation
did Johnson develop?
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Homework
Chapter 22
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10. What was the controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the
Confederate states to the Union?
11. What was Lincoln 10% Plan?
12. The Southern states were “conquered provinces” that had completely left the Union and were
therefore at the mercy of Congress for readmission was the view of what group?
13. What was President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
14. What did the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction include, and how was it different
from Johnson’s or Lincoln’s?
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Who were some of the key leaders of the Radical Republican movement in Congress?
15. What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?
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What specifically did Black Codes do?
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How did Northerners view the Black Codes?
16. What incident caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson?
17. The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus
be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was…
18. What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?
19. What did the 14th Amendment prohibit?
20. What did voters show in the 1866 elections about Reconstruction policy?
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Homework
Chapter 22
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21. What was the root cause of the conflict between Johnson & Congress?
22. Why were feminist angered by the Reconstruction Amendments?
23. What did blacks in the South rely on the Union League to do?
24. What new political roles did African American women assume during Reconstruction?
25. Describe the political corruption of governments in the North & South during
Reconstruction.
26. What was the primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan?
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What was the central goal of the KKK? What methods did KKK members use to
achieve their goals?
27. What was the official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President
Johnson?
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How did this incident arise?
28. What reasons were give for the Senate vote to acquit President Andrew Johnson?
29. What was Seward’s Folly?
30. How does the text speculate that reconstruction could have been more successful?
31. What were the legacies of the Reconstruction effort?
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Homework
Chapter 22
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Possible Essay Questions for Chapter 23
1. Compare and contrast Lincoln’s, Johnson’s and Congress’s plans for Reconstruction. Cite
what was included and what was omitted. Which program do you think was the best? Why?
2. It has been wryly observed that “The North won the Civil War, but the South won
Reconstruction.” Interpret this statement and assess its truth.
3. With hindsight, it is sometimes claimed that Reconstruction was a failure. Why?
4. Why was President Johnson impeached? Why didn’t the Senate convict him of “high crimes
and misdemeanors?” What do you think his conviction in the Senate might have meant for
our system of government?