Study
Guide – Unit 6: The Post-War South and West
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Date Due |
Assignment |
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Fri.,
Nov. 20 |
1.
Read p. 437 – the top of p. 445 2.
Read p. 382 and p. 388-390 in the Docs book 3.
Start filling in the Reconstruction Plans chart through Johnson’s plan 4.
Answer questions 1 – 5 for Reconstruction |
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Mon.,
Nov. 23 |
1.
Read p. 445 – 449 and 450 - 453 2.
Answer questions 6 - 10 |
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Tues.,
Nov. 24 |
1.
Read p. 449 – 450, 453-462 2.
P. 394 – 396 and 400-401 in the Docs book 3.
Answer questions 11 - 17 |
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Mon.,
Nov. 30 |
1.
Read the articles on whether or not Reconstruction was a total failure by J.
G. Randall and Eric Foner 2.
Make a detailed outline of their arguments and supporting evidence |
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Tues., Dec. 1 |
1.
Read p. 468 – 482 2.
In Volume II of the Docs books, read p. 31 – 32 2.
Answer questions 1 – 4 of Questions on
the American West |
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Weds.,
Dec. 2 |
1.
Read p. 482 – 493 2.
Read p. 44 – 45 in the Docs book 3.
Read the excerpt from the Turner Thesis and take notes in the margin to
summarize his points. 4.
Answer questions 5 – 8 |
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Fri.,
Dec. 4 |
1.
Read the excerpt from Henry W. Grady’s “The New South” 2,
Read p. 564 (bottom) – 571 AND p. 592 - 595 3.
Read the following documents in the Docs book: p. 119 – 126 4.
Answer questions 1 - 4 |
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Mon.,
Dec. 7 |
Discussion and proposed
thesis statement for your research paper due today |
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Tues.,
Dec. 8 |
1.
Test on Reconstruction and the Frontier |
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Weds.,
Dec. 9 |
1. Primary Documents
Analysis for your Research Paper due today 2.
Review Game for Colonial Period Chapters 2 – 4 3.
Review Game on Revolutionary Period:
Chapters 5 – 6 |
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Thurs.,
Dec. 10 |
1. Review Game on the New Nation: Chapters 7
– 9 2.
Review Game for |
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Fri.,
Dec. 11 |
Review
Game on Sectionalism through the Frontier: Chapters 13 - 16 You should have had your
conference with me on your paper by today |
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Mon.,
Dec. 14 |
Study
for the midterm |
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Tues.,
Dec. 15 |
Midterm |
Reading Questions
on Reconstruction
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1. |
Why did the Republicans in Congress turn against
Johnson’s plan? |
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2. |
Explain what happened in 1865 in the first
Congressional elections after the war. What was in the bills they passed? |
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3. |
Describe the efforts of former slaves to control
their own lives and the results. |
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4. |
After reading Johnson’s Reconstruction plan on p.
382 of the Docs book, summarize what |
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5. |
What was purpose of the Black Codes? (p. 389-90 of
the Docs book) How did they accomplish that goal? |
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6. |
Which two bills did Johnson veto and why? What was the reaction of Congress? |
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7. |
What was in the 14th Amendment and why
did Congress pass it. |
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8. |
What happened during the Congressional elections of
1866? |
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9. |
What were the issues in Johnson’s impeachment and
why did it fail? |
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10. |
Make a list describing Radical Reconstruction in the
South. |
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11. |
What are Susan B. Anthony’s arguments about the 15ht
Amendment (p. 394-396 in Docs book) What did Chief Justice Waite conclude in Minor v. Happersett
and what was his reasoning? (p. 396) |
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12. |
What is the message of the cartoons on p. 400 – 401
in the Docs book? |
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13. |
Describe the sharecropping system. |
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14. |
Describe the Counterrevolution to Congressional
Reconstruction. |
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15. |
How did the Grant administration’s approach to
Reconstruction doom Reconstruction? |
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16. |
What happened during the election of 1876? |
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17. |
Why did Reconstruction come to an end? |
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Identifications on
Reconstruction
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1. |
Lincoln’s Reconstruction
Plan |
12. |
Thaddeus
Stevens |
23. |
Sharecropping
and crop lien system |
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2. |
Wade-Davis Bill |
13. |
Charles
Sumner |
24. |
Ku
Klux Klan |
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3. |
Johnson’s
plan |
14. |
Reconstruction
Act of 1867 |
25. |
Ku
Klux Klan Act of 1871 |
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13th , 14th,
and 15th Amendments |
15. |
Tenure of Office Act |
26. |
Redeemers |
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5. |
Black Codes |
16. |
Edwin Stanton |
27. |
Whiskey Ring |
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6. |
Freedmen’s Bureau |
17. |
Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson |
28. |
Credit Mobilier |
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7. |
Trumbull’s
Civil Rights Bill |
18. |
Election
of 1868 |
29. |
Panic
of 1873 |
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8. |
Civil
Rights Act of 1866 |
19. |
President
Grant |
30. |
Civil
Rights Act of 1875 |
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9. |
Congressional
elections of 1866 |
20. |
Minor v. Happersett |
31. |
Election
of 1876 |
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10. |
“Waving
the bloody shirt” |
21. |
Carpetbaggers |
32. |
Rutherford
B. Hayes |
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11. |
Radical
Republicans |
22. |
Scalawags |
33. |
Samuel
Tilden |
Questions and Themes: Reconstruction
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What
were the differences among the various plans for Reconstruction? What did they
have in common? What were the strengths
and weaknesses of each plan?
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What
were the motives of the Radical Republicans in choosing harsh political,
social, and military Reconstruction measures in the South?
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Why
did the Radical Republicans try to impeach Andrew Johnson and why did they
fail?
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What
does this era say about the power struggles between the president and Congress?
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What
were the short-run and long-term impacts of the Civil War Amendments?
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What
was the plight of the freedmen in the South?
How did they fare economically?
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What
were the major accomplishments of Republican Reconstruction?
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Why
did the KKK arise and how did its activities change over the course of
Reconstruction?
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How
did blacks in the South fare during Congressional Reconstruction?
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What
were the political repercussions of Reconstructions for both the Democrats and
Republicans?
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What
happened during Grant’s presidency?
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What
was the reaction of women activists to the Fifteenth Amendment?
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What
were the political scandals of his administration? What was the political
impact of the scandals of the period?
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What
happened during the Election of 1876?
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Why
did Reconstruction end? What were the short-term and long-term consequences of
its end?
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Was
Reconstruction a total failure?
Reading Questions on the American West
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1. |
How did the railroads
affect how Americans viewed the |
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2. |
Trace the government’s
policy to the Native Americans and the results of that policy. Find a way to m.ake
sure that you know what the following refer to: Chief Joseph and the Nez Percé; Sioux War of 1876 and Battle of Little Big Horn;
Helen Hunt Jackson; Dawes Act; Ghost Dance Movement; Wounded Knee |
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3. |
Summarize the information
on the growth and decline of the cattle frontier? |
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4. |
Read the excerpt from
Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of
Dishonor on p. 31-32 of volume 2 of the Docs book. What is her indictment of American
treatment of Indians and what is her recommendation? |
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5. |
What were the difficulties
that homesteaders on the |
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6. |
How did the discovery of minerals
change the development of the west? |
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7. |
Read the paragraph in the
middle of p. 490 that begins “The irony of the state’s…..” Taking that
paragraph as a thesis statement, list all the information from p. 486 – 493
that supports that statement. |
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8. |
Summarize the main points
of the Turner Thesis |
Identifications – The West
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1. |
Lakota Sioux |
13. |
Red Cloud |
25. |
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2. |
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14. |
Concentration Policy |
26. |
The Ghost Dance movement |
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3. |
Great American desert |
15. |
Chief Joseph and Nez Perce |
27. |
Mexican
migration |
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4. |
Union Pacific railroad |
16. |
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28. |
Asian
migration |
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5. |
Central Pacific Railroad |
17. |
Medicine Lodge Treaty
(1867) |
29. |
Anti-Chinese
sentiment |
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6. |
Transcontinental railroad ( |
18. |
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30. |
Chinese Exclusion Act
(1882) |
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7. |
John Deere plow |
19. |
Sioux War of 1876
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31. |
John Muir and the Sierra
Club |
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8. |
Cyrus McCormick reaper |
20. |
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32. |
Barbed wire (Joseph
Glidden) |
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9. |
Chivington massacre at Sand Creek (1864) |
21. |
General George Custer |
33. |
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10. |
Homestead Act (1862) |
22. |
Indian territories in OK
and |
34. |
Mark Twain Roughing It |
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11. |
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23. |
A Century of Dishonor – Helen Hunt |
35. |
Frederick Jackson Turner
“The Closing of the American Frontier” |
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12. |
Bureau of Indian Affairs |
24. |
Dawes
Severalty Act (1887) |
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Questions and Themes: The West
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The
factors that affected the life, culture, and economics of western Indian tribes
in the late nineteenth century and the varying responses of the Indians to the
pressures they faced
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The
characteristics of the various frontier societies (mineral, timber, farming and ranch frontiers.) What brought those frontiers
to a close?
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The
role of women and non-whites in frontier society
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The
responses of Plains settlers to the living conditions and challenges they
encountered, and the impact of their experiences on their lives
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The
impact of the closing of the frontier on American history
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How
the government contributed to the economic development of the West
Reading Questions:
American Blacks from Reconstruction to the Progressive Era
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1. |
What
was Henry W. Grady’s vision of “The New South”? What has changed, in his
opinion, about the role of blacks in the New South? |
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2. |
Describe
the interplay of race and class in Southern politics. List the measures that whites were taking
in the South to assert white supremacy.
Include what you’ve learned from Ida B. Wells’ story of lynching on p.
119 – 120 in the Docs book. |
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3. |
Summarize
Booker T. Washington’s doctrine for improving the status of blacks using the
textbook and the excerpt on p. 120 – 122 of the Docs book. |
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4. |
Summarize
W.E.B. Du Bois’ criticisms of |
Identifications: American
Blacks from Reconstruction to the Progressive Era
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1. |
Henry
Grady and the “New South” ........... |
7. |
Plessy v. |
13. |
Tuskegee
Institute |
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2. |
D.W.
Griffith, Birth of a Nation |
8. |
Redeemers |
14. |
Williams
v. |
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3. |
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9. |
White
supremacy campaigns |
15. |
W.E.B.
Du Bois |
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4. |
NAACP |
10. |
Ida
B. Wells |
16. |
“talented
tenth” |
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5. |
The Crisis |
11. |
Booker
T. Washington |
17. |
The
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6. |
Jim
Crow laws |
12. |
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