Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class

Unit 7 Study Guide

Unit 7 — Reconstruction and the Transformation of the West and South, 1865-1892

Facts to Know

Chapter 16 — Reconstruction: A Partial Revolution, 1865-1877

1. The clash between the executive and legislative branches of government over the issue of Reconstruction, and the events and forces that affected the development of the congressional Reconstruction plans.
2. The Reconstruction experience for blacks.
3. The divergence between the provisions of President Johnson's Reconstruction plan and its actual operation.
4. The major provisions of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; the reasons for their passage by Congress; and the compromises embodied in each.
5. The major provisions of the First Reconstruction Act of 1867; the reasons for its enactment by Congress; and why it diverged from the proposals of the Radical Republicans.
6. The political, social, and economic impact of the Reconstruction governments on southern society.
7. The means by which white southern Conservatives attempted to regain control in the
   South, and the outcome of their efforts.
8. The events and forces that brought a weakening of the northern commitment to Reconstruction and an end to the Reconstruction era.
   
   

Chapter 17 — The Transformation of the West and South, 1877-1892

1. The factors that affected the life, culture, and economies of western Indian tribes in the late nineteenth century, and the varying responses of the Indians to the pressures they experienced.
2. The characteristics of each of the frontier societies listed below, and the contributions of each to the economic, social, and cultural transformation of the West.
   a. The mineral, timber, and oil frontiers
   b. The farming frontier
   c. The ranching frontier
3. The role of women and nonwhites in frontier society, and the prejudices these groups
   experienced.
4. The early conservation movement in the United States, and its successes and failures.
5. Efforts in the West at land reclamation through irrigation; the role played by state and federal governments in these efforts; and the debate over water rights that accompanied reclamation efforts.
6. The impact of the expansion of the railroad industry on the American economy, perceptions of time and space, standardization of time, technology, and business organization.
7. The role played by federal, state, and local governments in the expansion of the railroad industry.
8. The responses of Plains' settlers to the living conditions and challenges they encountered, and the impact of their experience on their lives.
9. The forces responsible for the transformation of American agriculture in the late nineteenth century, and the consequences of this agricultural revolution.
   
   

Quizzes

• Textbook Quiz — chapter 16     chapter 17  
• Mrs. Pojer's Quizzes
  • Reconstruction  A   B  C
  • Post-Civil War Westward Expansion  A    B   

Documents

• Louisiana Black Code (1865)
• Southern Skepticism of the Freedmen's Bureau (1866)
• Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Contribution to America (1883)
• Montana v. Rehberg (1885)

Study Aids

• Mrs. Ruland's Notes
  • Reconstruction Notes
  • Why They Impeached Andrew Johnson
• From Revolution to Reconstruction - An Outline of American History
  • Chapter Six: Sectional Conflict
  • Chapter Seven: Growth and Transformation
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Modules on Major Topics
  • Reconstruction
• Digital History
  • Guided Readings
    • Reconstruction
    • Along the Color Line
    • Closing the Western Frontier
    • Tragedy of the Plains Indians
  • Explorations
    • Learn About Reconstruction
  • Reconstruction
  • African Americans After Slavery
  • Indian Policy
• Professor Stanley K. Schultz' lecture notes (University of Wisconsin)
  • Reconstructing the Nation
  • The "New South"
  • Which "Old West" and Whose?
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to American History
• George Burson, Aspen CO
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • The United States: 1877-1890
• Academic American History, Henry J. Sage, Northern Virginia Community College
  • The Gilded Age and Reconstruction, 1865-1900
• Mr. Feldmeth - Polytechnic School, Pasadena CA
  • Reconstruction - outline
  • The Frontier West - outline
• Timeline- 1851 to 1900 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Presidential Election Data (David Leip) — 1868    1872    1876    1880    1884     1888    1892 
• Cram Sheet (Renata Melamud)
  • Buchanan through Andrew Johnson
  • Grant through Cleveland
• "Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War" 1848-1880 (Crossroads)
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
  • African American Religion in the Nineteenth Century
  • The American Jewish Experience: Immigration and Acculturation
  • Mormonism and the American Mainstream
  • Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America

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