Exam 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877

Examine both the achievements and failures of the Grant administration.Keeping his two terms in context with the larger political and social backdrop that was Reconstruction America,would you assert that his administration was a failure?

By the mid-1870s,northern Americans had grown increasingly

Explore the Compromise of 1877.Explain the participants in the agreement,the goals of each group,and the details of the final compromise.

The new southern state constitutions written during the winter and spring of 1867-68 were among the most progressive in the nation.

Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1877?

IDENTIFICATIONS -universal male suffrage

The Fourteenth Amendment dealt only with awarding the franchise to African Americans.

Johnson created the ____________________ Party.

Disputed election returns in the 1876 presidential election came from Louisiana,South Carolina,and ____________________.

Compare and contrast the Lincoln Reconstruction plan with the Wade-Davis Bill.

The Compromise of 1877 signified

Republicans dissatisfied with Grant's administration who nominated Horace Greeley for President in 1872 called themselves the ____________________ Republicans.

Some black farmers were able to buy small plots of land.

In order for a Southern state to be declared reconstructed and its delegates seated in Congress,the state had to ratify the ____________________ Amendment.

The idea of redistributing plantation land to freedmen was tried first by

In the 1870s and 1880s the U.S.Supreme Court

Freed slaves expected ____________________ acres of land.

The agency created to oversee relations between former slaves and their former masters during Reconstruction was the ____________________.

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was

____________________ refers to paying workers with a share of the crop.