Study Guide:  Reconstruction, Impeachment and the End of the Century

You should be able to identify the following items about Reconstruction and Impeachment.

 

1.

Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

8.

Fourteenth Amendment

16.

scalawags

2.

Wade-Davis Bill

9.

Fifteenth Amendment

17.

sharecropping

3.

Radical Republicans

10.

Military Reconstruction Acts

18.

Redeemers

4.

Johnson's  Reconstruction Plan

11.

Martial Law

19.

Poll tax

5.

Black Codes

12.

Tenure of Office Act

20.

Ku Klux Klan

6.

Freedmen's Bureau

13.

Impeachment of Johnson

21.

Vigilantes

7.

Thirteenth Amendment

14. 

Sen. Edmund Ross of KS

22.

Election of 1876

 

 

15.

carpetbaggers

23.

'Compromise of 1877'

 

You should be able to identify the following items to do with America at the end of the 19th Century.  They are all either in the video that we will watch in class or in the reading. 

 

People

39.

William McKinley

54.

Philanthropist

24.

Thomas Edison

40.

Upton Sinclair

55.

Assembly Line

25.

Alexander Graham Bell

41.

Theodore Roosevelt

56.

Trusts and Monopolies

26.

Elias Howe

42.

Jane Addams

57.

Grange Movement

27.

E. M. Singer

43.

Carrie Nation

58.

Populism

28.

Andrew Carnegie

44.

W.E.B. Du Bois

59.

Depression of 1893

29.

John D. Rockefeller

 

Events and Other Things

60.

Election of 1896

30.

J. P. Morgan

45.

Transcontinental Railroad

61.

Progressive Party

31.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

46.

Ellis Island

62.

Initiative, Referendum and Recall

32.

Henry Ford

47.

Chinese Exclusion Act

63.

Muckrakers

33.

Horatio Alger

48.

Knights of Labor

64.

Sixteenth Amendment

34.

George Pullman

49.

Haymarket Riots

65.

Seventeenth Amendment

35.

Samuel Gompers

50.

American Federation of Labor

66.

Plessy v. Ferguson

36.

Eugene Debs

51.

Homestead Strike

67.

Dawes Act

37.

Robert La Follette

52.

Pullman Strike

68.

Ghost Dance Movement

38.

William Jennings Bryan

53.

Entrepreneurs and Capital

69.

Battle of Wounded Knee

 

Study Questions for Test 

 

Compare the three plans for Reconstruction: Lincoln's, Johnson's and the Radical Republicans'. What was the legacy of Reconstruction? Overall, was Reconstruction a success or a failure? Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?  Was it good or bad for the country that he wasn't convicted?

 

You should be able to summarize and discuss the changes in America from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Twentieth Century. What were the social movements that attempted to change American society during this period? If you were a farmer, worker, or millionaire whom would you support in the election of 1896 and why?

 

What were the chief goals of the labor unions?  How successful were they in achieving those goals? What were the problems and benefits of the growth of American industry in the late 1800s?

 

Assignments

Bring US book to class

Mon., March 11

Read pp. 376-397 in US Book and Reading Questions 1 - 5

Due Tues., March 12

Reading Questions 6 – 13        

Due Weds., Mar. 13

Quiz on Reconstruction                 

Fri., Mar. 15

Read pp. 442-46, 455-61, 507-10 and 513-19 and Reading Questions 14 – 25                   (double HW grade)

Due Mon., Mar. 18

Crossword Puzzles

Thurs., March 21

Test

Fri., Mar. 22

                                   

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