Exam 14: Reconstruction: an Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

In decisions after the Civil War, the Supreme Court ______________________.

The Fourteenth Amendment represented a compromise between Radical and Conservative Republicans. Write an essay reviewing the major provisions of this amendment and explain where the compromise was most evident.

The black codes enacted in the South after the Civil War showed that Southerners

Regarding black suffrage in the South, Andrew Johnson believed that:

Contrast the Reconstruction plan advocated by Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens with the Reconstruction Act of 1867. Why were key elements of the Radical plan not adopted? How might the Radical plan have changed southern society?

After the Civil War, most African-American farmers eventually worked:

Examine the role played by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government in the national retreat from the commitment to equality for the freedmen.

Discuss the disputed election of 1876. What was at stake? How did it connect to the decade preceding it? How was it resolved? Was the Compromise of 1877 effective?

Trace the evolution of the Congressional Reconstruction plan, and examine the factors that affected the development of this plan.

When sharecropping first originated:

In an attempt to limit President Johnson's powers and safeguard its own Reconstruction plan, Congress:

Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery, passed by Congress in 1865?

What was the result of United States v. Cruikshank?

In response to the Panic of 1873, many debtors and unemployed workers advocated ____________________.

Although the South lost the Civil War, it was possible that Southern states would gain increased power in Congress when readmitted to the Union because:

The process by which the Republican-controlled Congress sought to make the Reconstruction of ex-Confederate states longer, harsher, and under greater congressional control is called