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Chapter 1: Three Old Worlds Create a New 1492-1600

VOCABULARY: Hierarchical-egalitarian, Matrilineal-patrilineal, Polytheistic, Mestizo, Dual Sex Principle

IDsPueblo, Iroquois Trans-Saharan Tradeslavery in Guinea Slave Coast, Ivory CoastNortheast Trade Winds WesterliesMadeira Plantation Maize (Corn)Columbus Taino PeopleJohn Cabot Treaty of Tordesillas 1494Hernan Cortes & Malinche Conquistadorsencomienda system Columbian ExchangeRoanokeThomas Harriot's Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

QUESTIONS:1. Describe the civilizations of the Americas, Africa, and Europe on the "eve" of contact in 1492. Highlight similarities and differences in the following categories: Political (describe leadership structure), Economic (Include technology, labor, and food obtaining practices), Social (Consider gender roles, etc.), Cultural (Include Religion). Use chart format.

2. What motivated European exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries?

3. In what ways were Americans, Africans, and Europeans changed by the contact?

4. How does the textbook account of Columbus compare to what you have previously learned? How would you evaluate his significance? What does his journal-log reveal about European intentions in the Americas? Compare conquistadors: Cortez and Pizarro

5. Where and what type of places did the Spanish colonize? What was the Spanish model of colonization? What were some effects of this model?

6. Describe the early colonization strategy of the British.

7. How was the institution of slavery introduced in the Americas?

Nightly Readings:Pgs. 1-10Pgs. 10-17Pgs. 17-26

Chapter 2: Europeans Colonize North America 1600-1650

IDsCaptain William Rudyerd Providence IslandNew Spain St. AugustineNew France Samuel de ChamplainQuebec, Montreal Jesuits or "Black Robes"New Netherlands Albany, NY (Fort Orange)Dutch West India Company Soc/Econ change in BritainEnglish Reformation Puritansjoint-stock company Virginia CompanyJamestown 1607 Capt. John Smith/ Pocahontastobacco cultivation headright systemHouse of Burgesses indentured servantsChesapeake area (Md.) George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)New England area separatistsPlymouth, Mayflower Compact Mass. Bay CompanyJohn Winthrop “city upon a hill” covenant idealGeneral Court Pequot WarRoger Williams Rhode IslandAnne Hutchinson accepted religious views and gender roles Caribbean sugar cultivation

QUESTIONS1. Describe the colonization strategies of North America by the Spanish, French, Dutch and English. Note: How is England different from the rest?

Immigrant demographics

Purpose in America

Locations settled

Relations w/ N.A.

Characteristics of Colony

Country ACountry B.. Fill out in detail on separate sheet. 2. Describe how insular European trading (French & Dutch) in North America affected relations with the Iroquois and Hurons.

3. What changes in England caused the “200,000 ordinary English men and women” to move to North America in the 17th century?

4. What were the similarities and differences between Algonquians and the English?


Chapter 2: Europeans Colonize North America 1600-1650

5. What do the experiences of dissenters Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson tell us about the society John Winthrop envisioned for his “city upon a hill?”

6. Compare the settlement patterns of the Chesapeake area to the New England area?

Motive of settlement

Basis of Economy

Society

Political Organization

Religious presence

Relation w/ N.A.

ChesapeakeNewEngland

Chapter 3: North America in the Atlantic World 1650-1720

IDsRestoration Colonies New York 1664The Duke's Laws Pennsylvania 1681Quakers William PennCarolina 1663 North/South split 1729“Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina”Iroquois Confederacy Beaver Wars 1640s-1701 v. New FrancePueblo Revolt 1680 v. Spanish King Philip’s War 1670 v. EnglishBacon's Rebellion 1676 triangular tradethe middle passage task systemmercantilism Navigation Acts 1651-1673vice-admiralty courts 1696 Dominion of New England 1686The Glorious Revolution 1689 King William's War 1689

Salem witchcraft trials 1692 Board of Trade and Plantations 1696

QUESTIONS1. How was the founding of the Middle Atlantic and sub-Chesapeake southern colonies different in the development of the New England and Chesapeake colonies?

2. Describe the evolution of political structures from different colonial areas. What are the similarities and differences between the regions?

3. How & why did the distinct cultures, traditions and goals of each European colonizer incite conflict with Native American culture, tradition and goals?

4. How & why did the already established "slave system" of the West Indies take root in the English mainland colonies? How did the introduction of enslaved Africans affect the different regions?

5. What factors does the Norton textbook suggest caused the Salem Witchcraft hysteria?

6. What were the advantages and disadvantages of mercantilism to the colonies? Where did the imperial and colonial interests clash?


Chapter 4: Becoming America? 1720-1760

VOCABULARY: genteel, seditious, libel, defamatory, pluralistic, militia, deference, egalitarian, evangelist

IDspopulation boom in British coloniesinvoluntary migrants European migrants

stagnant population in Sp/Fr colonies King George's War 1739the Enlightenment John Locke Two Treatises of GovernmentFirst Great Awakening 1735-1760s George Whitefield & Jonathan Edwards Church Splinters- Old Lights (orthodox), New Lights (evangelicals), Methodists, Baptists

Colonial AssembliesJohn Peter Zenger libel lawStono Rebellion 1739

QUESTIONS

1.What caused the rapid population growth in early 18th century colonial America and how was society changed? (diversity, economy)

3. How did ethnic diversity affect the language of revolution?

2. Examine and compare the economic development and growth of each region.

4. Compare the effects of King George’s War on the different regions.

5. How did colonial political institutions evolve? How did issues of class affect politics? Compare colonial assemblies to modern legislatures, why does Norton et al. say "the colonial ideal of the assembly as the defender of liberty was a myth" (p. 99)?

6. What did the Stono Rebellion and the Regulators Movement reveal about the social tensions and political stability during the mid-18th century?

7. How and why did the prominent colonial religion change from the Puritan ideals of Cotton Mather to the evangelism of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield? What impact did the First Great Awakening have on Colonial America?

Nightly ReadingsPgs. 82-90Pgs. 90-98Pgs. 98-107

Chapter 4: Becoming America? 1720-1760

8. Compare Enlightenment and Great Awakening ideals.

Chapter 5: The Ends of Empire 1754-1774

IDsAlbany Congress 1754 Albany Plan of UnionFrench & Indian War/ Seven Years’ War 1756-63Fort Duquesne Treaty of Paris 1763Proclamation of 1763 George Grenville 1763virtual v. actual representation Real WhigsSugar & Currency Acts (Revenue Acts) 1764Stamp Act 1765 Otis’ The Rts. of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved”Patrick Henry Virginia Stamp Act Resolves Loyalists Anti-Stamp Act demonstrationsSons of Liberty Stamp Act Congress 1765-66non-importation repeal & Declaratory Act 1766Townshend Acts 1767 Townshend Duties 1767 (Repealed 1770)John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in PennsylvaniaDaughters of Liberty Boston Massacre 1770 Samuel AdamsCommittee of Correspondence Tea Act 1773 Boston Tea Party 1773 Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) 1774

Quebec Act Regulators Movement NC & SC First Continental Congress 1774 John Adams Samuel Adams John DickinsonJohn Jay Declaration of Rights & Grievances Continental Association Committees of ObservationProvincial Conventions 1774-75

QUESTIONS1. Why was the end of the Seven Year's War such an important turning point?How was the relationship between colonists and Native Americans changed? ... with the British government?

2. How did differing theories of democratic representation affect the relationship between the English colonies and the British government?

3. Was the Stamp Act crisis the inevitable result of Britain's New Imperial Policy and of the differences in political theories between the British government and its American subjects?

4. Why were Americans so vehemently opposed to the Townshend duties?



5. What evidence would support John Adams' famous observation that there was a "revolution... in the Minds of the people" between 1760 and 1775? At what point do you think this part of the Revolution was complete?

6. How well did Revolutionary leaders succeed in organizing both sentiment for and execution of the Revolutionary War?

7. How did the First Continental Congress compromise between radical and conservative delegates? What measures were agreed on and how were these enforced? What happened to British authority in 1774-75?

PRE-REVOLUTIONARY ERA FLOW CHART OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

7 Years War & its results - Reorganization of the British Imperial System Grenville's Ministry

Proclamation Line, 1763

(due to Pontiac's raid)

Sugar Act (Revenue Act), 1764

Currency Act, 1764 Sons of Liberty, Daughters of

Stamp Act, 1765 Liberty, & Stamp Act Congress

Quartering Act, 1765

Non-importation policy


Repeal of Stamp Act, 1766

Declaratory Act, 1766

Mild reaction Townshend Acts, 1767

Duty Act Revival of non-importation

Vice Admiralty Courts

Tightened customs . Dickinson's Letters From A

Pennsylvania Farmer

More Eng. troops sent over Repeal of Townshend Acts, 1770 Collapse of non-importation

Friction between Eng. troops and colonies Committees of Correspondence, 1772

didn't like the "peace"Boston

Massacre,1770


Gaspee Incident, 1772 Tea Act 1773

The Boston Tea Party, 1773 The Intolerable (Coercive) Acts, 1774

Boston Port Bill

Administration of Justice Act 1st Continental Congress,1774

Mass. Government Act Continental Assoc, Commiittees of

Quartering Act Observation Declaration of

Rights & Grievances, Quebec Act, 1774 Suffolk Resolves , Lexington, Concord, & Ticonderoga in 1775 made the May 1775 2nd Continental Congress even more important. Army was raised & Washington put in command. Two days later, June 17, 1775 the Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill took place. In sept. 1775 Dickinson's "Olive Branch proposal" was turned down by King. Continued hostilities & Paine's Common Sense in Jan. of 1776 led the 2nd Continental Congress to pass the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

Chapter 6: American Revolutions 1775-1783

IDsWilliam Dawes & Paul RevereLexington & Concord 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill 1775British War Strategy Second Continental Congress 1775 George WashingtonRepublicanism (3 kinds) Thomas Paine Common Sense 1776Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence 1776aims of State Constitutions Articles of Confederation (ratified 1781)unicameral legislature ratification BATTLES: Manhattan; Trenton; Princeton; Brandywine; Saratoga; CharlestonFranco-American Treaty of Alliance 1778Battle of Yorktown (Lord Cornwallis' Surrender 1781) Treaty of

Paris 1783

QUESTIONS1. What factors influenced Loyalists, African-Americans and Native Americans in choosing sides? How did slavery impact revolutionary fervor?

2. How did the fighting begin? What strategy did each side adopt?

3. Compare British and American advantages at the outset.

4. What are the different forms of Republicanism? What group held which view?

5. How were the different notions of "Republican Virtue" expressed in art, education, and society at large?

6. What was the impact of revolutionary ideology on the position of women?

7. What was the impact of revolutionary ideology on the institution of slavery? What steps did African-Americans take to advance their cause and lives?

8. How did documents like Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence influence public opinion?

9. What were the main turning points in the war fought in the North? in the South? How would you evaluate George Washington’s role as a


Chapter 6: American Revolutions 1775-1783

leader?

10. How did American delegates in Paris achieve such excellent terms?

Chapter 7: Forging a Nation 1783-1800

VOCABULARY: Republicanism; virtuous republic; national aristocracy; egalitarian; unicameral; bicameral; partisan politics; precedent; fiscal policy; speculators; belligerent; loyal opposition; arbitration; unilateralism

IDsSecond Continental Congress May 1776fin. & currency disarray foreign affairs disarrayFort Stanwix Treaty 1786 Ordinance of 1785Northwest Ordinance 1787 Shays' Rebellion 1787Phila Constitutional Convention 1787James Madison Virginia PlanNew Jersey Plan bicameral legislatureproportional v. equal representation3/5ths clause Separation of Powers- Checks & BalancesFugitive Slave Clause Federalists & AntifederalistsBill of Rights 1791 The FederalistLife of Washington 1800 public elementary schools

private academies for girls Judith Sargent MurrayRevenue Act of 1789 Bill of RightsJudiciary Act of 1789 Executive Departments & Heads

Alexander Hamilton Hamilton's Financial Plan

Report of Public Credit (1st &2nd) First Bank of the United States 1791Defense of Constitutionality of Bankstrict v. broad construction or interpretation of Constitution"necessary and proper" clause Report on Manufactures 1791protective tariff excise taxwhiskey tax Whiskey Rebellion 1794Democratic Societies G.W. Neutrality ProclamationJay Treaty 1795 John Adams XYZ Affair 1798 Quasi-War v. France 1798-99Alien & Sedition Acts 1798 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 1798War with Miami Confederacy 1793 "Civilizing" Native AmericansAbigail Adams (1776 letter) republican womanhoodGradual Abolition in North growth of Free Black population

Nightly ReadingsPgs. 163-170Pgs. 170-176Pgs. 176-185Pgs. 185-195


African Methodist Episcopal Church Development of Racist Theory Benjamin Banneker discriminatory laws

White Men's Republic laws Fries's Rebellion 1798-99

Gabriel's Rebellion 1800 Election of 1800

QUESTIONS1. How did the first Federal Congress attempt to enact the principals articulated in the newly ratified Constitution?

2. What effect did Hamilton's controversial financial plan have on the allegedly factionless politics of Washington's administration?

3. How did the French Revolution help split America's former revolutionaries?How did this affect the Federalist administrations of Washington and Adams?

4. How was political partisanship evident in issues such as the Alien and Sedition Acts? The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions? The Quasi-war with France? The election of 1800?

5. What evidence do you see of unresolved tensions threatening the new republic at the end of the century?

6. Why was emancipation handled differently in the North and South? What effect could this have on the future of the Republic?

7. How and why did "Racist Theory" emerge?

8. How did Americans design and redesign their state constitutions?

9. What weaknesses of the national gov. were exposed by Shays' Rebellion? Compare them to the achievements of the Confederation Government. What were the glaring weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

10. Why was compromise at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention so necessary? What effects did these compromises have on the eventual design of the Constitution?


11. What were the basic issues of dispute between the Federalists & Anti-federalists? Why did the Federalists ultimately win? What did the Anti-federalists achieve?

Chapter 8: Defining a Nation 1801-1823

VOCABULARY: partisanship; factionalism; patronage; impeach; indict; "implied powers"

IDsThomas Jefferson Election of 1800"wall of separation" partisan press"midnight appointments" Jefferson's views on national debt Naturalization Act of 1802 the judiciaryChief Justice John Marshall 1801-1835 Marbury v. Madison 1803judicial review Election of 1804Hamilton v. Burr duel 1804 Burr conspiracy and trialLouisiana Purchase1803 Lewis & Clark ExpeditionTenskwatawa TecumsehTripoli War Barbary "Pirates" impressmentsChesapeake affair 1807 Non-Importation Act 1807Embargo Act 1807 effects on domestic manufacturingabolishment of international slave trade as of Jan 1, 1808The Am. Colonization Society Election of 1808- James MadisonNon-Intercourse Act of 1809 Macon's Bill # 2 of 1810

War Hawks (John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay)War of 1812 Invasion of Canada 1812

Andrew Jackson Battle of New OrleansTreaty of Ghent 1815 Hartford Convention"American System" Second Bank of the U.S. 1816Protective Tariff of 1816Bonus Bill Veto Panic of 1819Missouri Compromise 1820 "Era of Good Feelings"McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Adams-Onis Treaty Monroe Doctrine1823

QUESTIONS1. How did Republicans differ from Federalists? Consider values, policies and political tactics.

2. To what extent do you think the Election of 1800 was, as Thomas Jefferson called it, the “Revolution of 1800?” What was the “legacy” of this election?


Chapter 8: Defining a Nation 1801-1823

3. What was the impact of the Marshall Supreme Court? How does Marbury v. Madison demonstrate Marshall’s ingenuity?

4. How did politics change after 1800? What happened to the Federalists?

5. What were the causes and consequences of the War of 1812? How did Jefferson and Madison try to keep out of war, and why did their policies fail? To what extent do you think the War of 1812 could be called “the second war for American independence?”

6. Evaluate Republican policies after the War of 1812.

Chapter 9: The Rise of the South 1815-1860

VOCABULARY: racism; paternalism; (yeoman farmers)

IDsProslavery Arguments in the South Thomas DewGeorge Fitzhugh slave societySouthern Worldview The Removal Act 1830 Cherokee ResistanceCherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831 Worcester v. Georgia 1832King Cotton Southern Paternalismtask system Frederick DouglassAfrican cultural survival slave resistance and rebellionDenmark Vesey Nat Turner

QUESTIONS1. Discuss the differences and similarities between the North and South in the period from 1830 to 1860. (We will cover this in class with a handout.)

2. Discuss the arguments used by southerners to defend the institution of slavery in the pre-Civil war era.

(3. Discuss the lifestyle of southern slaveholders and the paternalistic ideology that was a central part of their belief system.)

4. Examine the treatment of Native Americans by white Americans from 1816 to 1845. How does this treatment relate to the professed American faith in equality, opportunity, and constitutional government?

5. Discuss the culture that slaves created and examine the nature and extent of slave resistance.

ONLY 2 Nightly ReadingsNOTE CHANGES:Pgs. 232-245Pgs. 252-261

Chapter 10: The Restless North 1815-1860

IDsmarket economy & society preindustrial farmingground transportation steamboats 1807Erie Canal 1817-1825 rail transportationregional economic connectionsNorthern ideal of "Progress" factory work"The American System of manufacturing"textile mills labor issues and protests 1834labor unions Commonwealth v. Hunt 1842garment industry specializationcommercial v. subsistence farming women on the farmboom and bust cycle Federal Bankruptcy Law of 1841Catharine Beecher’s Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841)shrinking families separate sphereswomen wage earners urbanization 1820-60municipal services disparity of wealthimmigration from new European Countries ethnic tensionSocial & Economic Segregation for African-AmericansThe Second Great Awakening RevivalismThe Female Moral Reform Society The Penitentiary MovementThe Asylum Movement Dorothea DixThe Am. Society for the Promotion of Temperancepublic schools Horace MannMormons Shakerstranscendentalism Nathaniel HawthorneAmerican Renaissance Emerson, ThoreauThe Amer. Antislavery Society Wm. Lloyd Garrison

The LiberatorElijah Lovejoy gradualists vs. immediatists Black Abolitionists David WalkerFrederick Douglass

QUESTIONS

1. Discuss the causes and consequences of the various reform movements.

2. Discuss the forces in American society that led to the women’s movement.



Chapter 11: The Contested West 1815-1860

VOCABULARY: empresario; Tejanos; Hispanics; assimilation; secession; annexation; "ethnic cleansing"

IDsfrontier thesis Frederick Jackson TurnerDaniel Boone Davy CrockettGold Rush fur tradeHomestead Act of 1862 TejanosEmpresario System Mexican Independence from Spain 1821Texas, Lone Star Republic 1836Sam Houston manifest destinyMormons Oregon & California Trailsbuffalo

QUESTIONS1. What did the "West" or the "Frontier" symbolize during the early and mid 19th century? What did the historian Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis (“meeting point between savagery and civilization”) say about the role of the frontier in shaping American culture?

2. How and why was Texas settled? How did Mexican and American intentions clash and what was the outcome?

3. What did Americans mea by "Manifest Destiny?" What is revealed by the concept and what impact did it have on the nation's expansion?

4. How did American ideas about slavery help to shape settlements in the West?

Chapter 12: Politics and the Fate of the Union 1824-1859

Vocabulary: utopian, nullification, temperance

IDsUncle Tom’s Cabin The

Presidential Election of 1824 The Corrupt BargainPresident John Quincy AdamsThe Presidential Election of 1828 Andrew JacksonThe Jacksonian Democrats the “Kitchen Cabinet”spoils system “King Andrew”The Maysville Road veto Tariff of Abominations 1828the doctrine of nullification Exposition and Protestthe Webster-Hayne Debate the Tariff of 1832the nullification crisis The Force ActThe Tariff of 1833 The Second Bank of the US2nd Bank Rechartering Veto antimasonry

Presidential Election of 1832 Deposit Act of 1836the Specie Circular The Second Party SystemThe Whig Party the “gag rule”Presidential Election of 1836 Martin Van Buren

Pres. Election of 1840 William Henry HarrisonJohn Tyler Elizabeth Cady StantonThe Declaration of Sentiments "54-40 or Fight"

Democratic Convention of 1844James K. Polk Henry Clayannexation of Texas 1845 Oregon

The Oregon Treaty The Mexican WarThe Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo "Slave Power Conspiracy"Wilmot Proviso Presidential Election of 1848 Popular Sovereignty the Free Soil Party

Stephen A. Douglas The Compromise of 1850the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 the Underground RailroadHarriet Tubman Presidential Election of 1852Franklin Pierce Anthony BurnsKansas-Nebraska Act 1854 Personal-Liberty Laws


Chapter 12: Politics and the Fate of the Union 1824-1859

the Know Nothing Party “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”Southern Republicanism Southern DemocratsBleeding Kansas John BrownThe Sumner-Brooks Affair James BuchananPresidential Election of 1856 The Dred Scott CaseLincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) the Republican Party

Lincoln’s House Divided SpeechThe Lecompton ConstitutionBrown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

QUESTIONS

1. If you had been alive in the early 1800’s, would you have supported Andrew Jackson? What were the issues that united Democrats behind Jackson and Whigs against him?

2. Compare the “Second Party System” to the first.

3. How did the Mexican war begin? Why was it controversial?

4. Discuss the sectional disputes that led to the Compromise of 1850. How was the compromise reached? What were its provisions? What were its results?

5. Explain the idea behind popular sovereignty, and explain the role of popular sovereignty in the sectional crises that occurred between 1850 and 1861.

6. Discuss the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and explain the far-reaching consequences of its passage in 1854.

7. Explain the implications of the Dred Scott decision for African-Americans and for the expansion of slavery into the territories.

8. Discuss the ideology of southern Democrats and its appeal non-slaveholders and Whig slaveholders in the South.

Chapter 13- Transforming Fire: The Civil War 1860-1865

IDs

The 1860 Democratic ConventionPresidential Election of 1860Separate-State Secession StrategyConfederate States of AmericaAttack on Fort SumterThe First Battle of Bull Run 1861 George McClellan

the “Anaconda plan” The Union Naval CampaignUlysses S. Grant Grant’s Tennessee Campaignthe Battle of Shiloh McClellan's Peninsula CampaignJefferson Davis General Robert E. LeeThe Seven Days’ Battles The Battle of Antietam

the Conf. conscription law The Confederate bureaucracyinequities in the Confederate draft the “twenty Negro” lawThe Dev. of Heavy Ind. (North) Mechanization of Northern Agri.Northern Labor Activism “yellow dog” contractsthe Morrill Land Grant ActLincoln’s plan for gradual emancipation The Radical RepublicansThe Confiscation Acts “The Prayer of Twenty Millions”The Emancipation ProclamationThirteenth AmendmentDavis’s emancipation plan the Minie ballAfrican Am. soldiers in the Union Army The Battle of ChancellorsvilleThe Battle of Vicksburg The Battle of GettysburgSouthern food riots desertions from the Conf. ArmySouthern peace movements The Peace DemocratsClement L. Vallandigham CopperheadsNew York City Draft Riot Presidential Election of 1864Northern Diplomatic Strategy The Trent Affairthe Alabama Sherman’s Southern CampaignAppomattox Court House John Wilkes Booth

QUESTIONS


Chapter 13- Transforming Fire: The Civil War 1860-1865

1. Examine the social, political, and economic impact of the Civil War on the North and the South and its people. How were women, on both sides, affected by the Civil War?

2. Discuss how and why the Civil War changed southern government in concept and practice and discuss the reaction of the southern people to these changes.

3. Examine the relationship between the federal government and northern business interests during the Civil War.

4. Explain the different views held by the North and South on the issue of slavery during the Civil War. How did each view the Emancipation Proclamation?

5. Compare and contrast Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as war leaders.

Chapter 14- Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution 1865-1877

IDsLincoln’s “10 percent” Plan Wade-Davis Bill13th Amendment Freedmen’s Bureau Freedmen’s Bureau SchoolsFounding of Afro-American Colleges sharecropping systemJohnson’s Reconstruction Plan Black CodesRadical Republicanism Civil Rights Bill of 1866the 14th Amendment Johnson’s “swing around the circle”the Congressional Elections of 1866 1st Reconstruction Act of 1867Thaddeus Stevens Tenure of Office ActJohnson’s impeachment trial Presidential Election of 1868Ulysses S. Grant (pres. 1869-76) 15th AmendmentSouthern Republican Party Constitutional Conventions in the FCS*Republican Governments in the FCS* Industrialization in the FCS*Public Schools in the FCS* Southern conservativesThe myth of “Negro Rule” “carpetbaggers”“scalawag” Republican tax policies in the FCSKu Klux Klan Klan Violence in Alamance & Caswell, NCEnforcement Acts and anti-KKK law Panic of 1873Liberal Republican revolt Amnesty Act of 1872Civil Rights Act of 1875 Ex Parte MilliganThe Slaughter-House Cases Bradwell v. IllinoisUnited States v. Cruikshank Presidential Election of 1876-disputed"Compromise of 1877"

* FCS=Former Confederate States

QUESTIONS1. Discuss the response of former slaves to freedom and to the 13 th

and 14th Amendments.

2. Discuss the political, social, and economic implications of Reconstruction.

3. After the Civil War the nation committed itself to equality for the freedmen through law and constitutional amendments. Discuss the forces and events that caused the nation to abandon this commitment during the years after the Civil War.

4. Discuss the Northern and Southern responses to Reconstruction.

5. Discuss the roles played by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal govt. in the national retreat from the commitment to equality for the freedmen.


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