CHAPTER
12
STUDY GUIDE
Mrs. Johnson American Studies IIC
RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS EFFECTS
ISSUES
TO
UNDERSTAND
Answer the
following in
your notebooks:
Section One
1.
What
was
2.
What
leadership qualities did
3.
Identify differences between presidential
and
congressional Reconstruction plans.
4. Summarize the reasons for President Johnson’s
impeachment.
5. What steps were
taken by Congress to
protect the former slaves?
Section
Two
6. What were the economic
problems in the south following the Civil War?
7. What 3 groups made up the
Republican Party in the South?
8. Describe the attitudes of
white southerners.
9. Explain why political cartoons
were important in getting messages across to people.
10. List steps black Americans
took to improve their lives.
11. What laws and policies were created to help the former
slaves?
12. Explain how sharecropping and tenant farming worked.
Section Three
13. Describe some of the methods used by people who opposed
Reconstruction.
14. Identify reasons for the shift in power from Southern
Republicans to
Southern Democrats.
15. Describe the effect of the Supreme Court’s decisions on
Reconstruction.
16. Identify reasons for the collapse of Congressional
reconstruction.
17. What were the major successes of Reconstruction? The major failures?
VOCABULARY
After reading Chapter 12, you should be able to identify and
explain each of the following:
Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens, and
the Radical Republicans
10 percent plan versus Wade-Davis bill
Thirteenth Amendment
black codes
Freedmen 's Bureau
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Tenure of Office Act
Fifteenth Amendment
carpetbaggers and scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Jay Gould and Jim Fisk
Credit Mobilier
William M. Tweed
Horace Greeley
greenbacks
Slaughterhouse cases
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden