Exam 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877

Assess the achievements and shortcomings of "radical" regimes in the South.What did they do that is worth admiring and worth condemning? What else might they have done to better achieve their goals?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Alexander Stephens

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Freedmen's Bureau

After Reconstruction,the culture,society,and politics of the Old South

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hiram Revels

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Thirteenth Amendment

The Radical Reconstruction state governments

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -the "lost cause"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -carpetbaggers

The text authors claim that the midterm elections of 1866 were "more crucial than some presidential elections." Do you agree? Why or why not?

In the postwar South

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

The legacies of Reconstruction included

Why was President Johnson impeached? Why didn't the Senate convict him of "high crimes and misdemeanors"? What do you think his conviction in the Senate might have meant for our system of government?

Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges because

What four basic questions did the nation face after the Civil War? Which were addressed most successfully over the course of Reconstruction,and which the least?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Reconstruction Act

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Andrew Johnson

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Force Acts

From 1878 to 1880,some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana,Texas,and Mississippi