5th American History (Period 5th) Assignments
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The test over Chapter 18 will be on Friday, May 27.
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Complete the map entitled "The Election of 1876".
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Study Guide—Chapter 18
Section 1
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: freedmen, Reconstruction, Ten Percent Plan, amnesty, Wade-Davis Bill, Freedmen’s Bureau, and Thirteenth Amendment.
2. What problems did the North experience after the Civil War?
3. What problems did the South experience after the Civil War?
4. What early steps were taken toward reconstruction?
5. How did the assassination of Lincoln and the inauguration of a new President lead to conflict?
6. Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Section 2
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: black codes, Radical Republican, Fourteenth Amendment, Radical Reconstruction, Reconstruction Act, impeach, and Fifteenth Amendment.
2. How did Congress react to the passage of black codes in the South?
3. Who were the leaders of the Radical Republicans in Congress?
4. What were the goals of the Radical Republicans?
5. What was the Civil Rights Act?
6. What were the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment?
7. What influence did the Fourteenth Amendment have on later court cases?
8. Know the impact of the following court cases: Lochner v. New York, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Reed v. Reed.
9. What was the result of the Congressional elections of 1866?
10. What were the provisions of the Reconstruction Act?
11. Why was President Johnson impeached?
12. What was the result of the impeachment hearing in the Senate?
13. What was the result of the Presidential election of 1868?
14. What were the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment?
Section 3
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: scalawag, carpetbagger, Conservatives, Ku Klux Klan, and sharecropper.
2. What groups of people made up the new forces in southern politics?
3. Who were Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce?
4. How did southern Conservatives resist Reconstruction?
5. What tactics were used by the Ku Klux Klan?
6. What challenges did Reconstruction governments face?
7. How did many southerners become locked into a cycle of poverty?
Section 4
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, and “New South”.
2. What events led to the end of Reconstruction?
3. What was the Amnesty Act?
4. Who won the election of 1876?
5. What impact did Reconstruction have on southern politics?
6. How were the rights of African American restricted in the South after Reconstruction?
7. What industries flourished in the “New South”?
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Section 1
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: freedmen, Reconstruction, Ten Percent Plan, amnesty, Wade-Davis Bill, Freedmen’s Bureau, and Thirteenth Amendment.
2. What problems did the North experience after the Civil War?
3. What problems did the South experience after the Civil War?
4. What early steps were taken toward reconstruction?
5. How did the assassination of Lincoln and the inauguration of a new President lead to conflict?
6. Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Section 2
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: black codes, Radical Republican, Fourteenth Amendment, Radical Reconstruction, Reconstruction Act, impeach, and Fifteenth Amendment.
2. How did Congress react to the passage of black codes in the South?
3. Who were the leaders of the Radical Republicans in Congress?
4. What were the goals of the Radical Republicans?
5. What was the Civil Rights Act?
6. What were the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment?
7. What influence did the Fourteenth Amendment have on later court cases?
8. Know the impact of the following court cases: Lochner v. New York, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Reed v. Reed.
9. What was the result of the Congressional elections of 1866?
10. What were the provisions of the Reconstruction Act?
11. Why was President Johnson impeached?
12. What was the result of the impeachment hearing in the Senate?
13. What was the result of the Presidential election of 1868?
14. What were the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment?
Section 3
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: scalawag, carpetbagger, Conservatives, Ku Klux Klan, and sharecropper.
2. What groups of people made up the new forces in southern politics?
3. Who were Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce?
4. How did southern Conservatives resist Reconstruction?
5. What tactics were used by the Ku Klux Klan?
6. What challenges did Reconstruction governments face?
7. How did many southerners become locked into a cycle of poverty?
Section 4
1. Know the meaning of the following Key Terms: poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, and “New South”.
2. What events led to the end of Reconstruction?
3. What was the Amnesty Act?
4. Who won the election of 1876?
5. What impact did Reconstruction have on southern politics?
6. How were the rights of African American restricted in the South after Reconstruction?
7. What industries flourished in the “New South”?
8.