"How Did Blacks Respond to Freedom, and What Black Organizations Flourished?"

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Reconstruction

	Reconstruction

For Monday 1/25, please answer the following prompt:

Analyze the level of political, economic, and social change brought to the American South during Reconstruction.

Use your Reconstruction Notes to help you answer this question and be sure to include ALL of the terms listed on your storyboard in your answer.

For Thursday 1/21, please complete the following questions after reading Chapter 23:

1. Why were political times so prone to political corruption in the post-Civil War era? Provide specific factual examples from Grant's administration and Boss Tweed. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the political system of this age.

2. What were the main issues surrounding the election of 1876? Did the Compromise of 1877 truly resolve those issues? Was the deal a cynical political deal or a wise adjustment to avoid a renewal of sectional conflict?

3. What were the biggest challenges facing the post-Reconstruction South?

4. What were the main reasons for Chinese immigration in the second half of the nineteenth century?

5. What were the short- and long-term results of the "Jim Crow" system? Why was sharecropping so hard to overcome? Were blacks better or worse off after the Civil War?

6. Why was the political system so slow to respond to the economic grievances of farmers and workers, especially during the hard economic times of the 1890s? Describe the Populist movement. Were they more effectively addressing the real problems that America faced, or was their approach crippled by their nostalgia for a simpler, rural America?

Terms: Boss Tweed, Ulysses Grant, Redeemers, "waving the bloody shirt," Stalwarts, Half-Breeds, Plessy v. Ferguson, Chinese Exclusion Act, Greenback

For Thursday's Quiz (1/14), study the following:

Manifest Destiny- Mexican Cession, popular sovereignty, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, James Polk

Reform Movements: Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony,

Road to Civil War- Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, Free Soil Party, John Brown, Election of 1860, Republican Party, Nativism, Caning of Sumner

Over break please read Chapter 22. Then, complete the following discussion questions.

1. How did blacks respond to freedom and what black organizations flourished? Were they all successful?

2. How had Lincoln hoped to accomplish Reconstruction?

3. What were President Andrew Johnson's modifications to Lincoln's plan? How might Johnson's background have affected his ideas?

4. How was Congressional Reconstruction different from Presidential Reconstruction?

5. After gaining suffrage, how successful were blacks politically?

6. What circumstances led to the impeachment and trial of President Johnson? Was the outcome fair? Explain your answer.

Identify the following terms with who/what they were and why they were important in this discussion of Reconstruction:

Exodusters, Freedmen's Bureau, Andrew Johnson, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, Black Codes, Reconstruction Act, Redeemers, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, Ku Klux Klan, Seward's Folly

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