ASSIGNMENT 1:

Sources:

• textbook --> pp. 514 - 531.

• AMSCO --> pp. 289 - 296.

• Heffner doc. book --> pp. 33 - 35 [13th, 14th, 15th Amendments].
                                    pp. 190 - 191 [Lincoln's 2nd, Inaugural Address].

Terms :

Questions:

1. What were the major issues facing the nation after Appomattox?  Identify the three major groups in the South and their agendas that had to come together to create a national consensus.

2. How did the South respond to defeat in 1865?  What was the "Lost Cause?"

3. What special problems did the freedmen face immediately after the Civil War?  Explain the white South's reaction to these efforts.

4. Describe the early efforts during Reconstruction to establish free labor in the South.  What was the extent of black farm ownership in the South by the end of Reconstruction?

5. How did black churches play a role in the political, social, and educational development of blacks after the Civil War?

6. What were the objectives and provisions of Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction?  How did the Radical Republicans respond to it?

7. What constitutional and theoretical problems did Reconstruction pose?  How did the Ten Percent Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill reflect these problems?

8. Describe Andrew Johnson's approach to Reconstruction.  How was it shaped by his political background and his personality?

9. What were the Democratic, Republican, and conservative Southern responses to President Andrew Johnson's Plan?

10. What was the Reconstruction Plan of the Radical Republicans?  Who were their major leaders in the House and Senate?

11. How did Congress respond to the Black Codes and other Southern state actions in 1865 and 1866?

12. What was the role of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 in the transition from presidential to Congressional Reconstruction?

13. Identify the provisions of the 14th. Amendment and explain its impact on the founding of the American Equal Rights Association.

14. List the components of the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and explain how the laws fulfilled three major Radical Republican objectives.

15. What was the Tenure of Office Act?  How was it connected to President Andrew Johnson's impeachment?

16. Why was the 15th. Amendment passed?  What was its impact on the women's suffrage movement?

17. Identify the three major Republican constituencies who supported radical state governments in the South during Reconstruction.

18. What was the nature of black Republican political leadership during Radical Reconstruction?

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

Sources:

• textbook --> pp. 531 - 542.

• AMSCO --> pp. 296 - 303.

Terms :

Questions:

1. Identify the problems the Republican Party encountered in appealing to southern conservatives and in preserving unity within their party.

2. Describe the activities of southern paramilitary groups in attempting to counter Reconstruction.  What Congressional laws were designed to protect citizens from racial violence?

3. Why did northern support for Reconstruction policies begin to decline by the early 1870s?

4. Who were the Liberal Republicans?  What role did they play in the 1872 presidential election?

5. What was "Redemption" as defined by southern conservatives?  What were the typical socioeconomic and political characteristics of the "Redeemers?"

6. How did southern white organizations regain control of southern state governments?  What methods did they use?

7. List the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and assess its effectiveness in defending the civil rights of southern blacks.

8. Why was the presidential election of 1876 disputed?  How was the controversy resolved by the "Compromise of 1877?"

9. What was President Rutherford B. Hayes' objective in the South?

10. Explain the operation of the sharecropping system of labor and how it assisted southern whites in reasserting control over black labor?

11. Define the term segregation as it was used in southern urban centers to control the black community.

12. What eventually happened to the 14th. and 15th. Amendments as protections against racial discrimination?

13. Create a CHART in your notes that compares the white and black expectations for Reconstruction with the actual results in 1877.

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

Sources:

• textbook --> pp. 546 - 561.

• AMSCO --> pp. 321 - 324;  386 - 387 [Doc. B --> pp. 329 - 330].

Terms :

Questions:

1. Define the terms "Old South" and "New South" and make a distinction between the two.

2. Why were investors attracted to the southern textile industry after the Civil War?

3. Identify the major commercial and industrial success in the New South during the late 19c.  What was the impact of railroad construction on economic development there?

4. What were the statistical limitations of industrial and urban growth in the post-bellum South?  What was the negative impact of low wages on the depressed southern postwar economy?

5. Why didn't the South benefit from a booming national economy during the late 19c?

6. Define the term "urban-rural conflict" and its relevance to late 19c southern culture.

7. What was the impact of the late 19c agricultural depression on the cotton economy of the New South?  How did the crop lien system force the South to remain a one-crop economy?

8. Describe the effectiveness of Redeemer democratic state governments in the South during the late 19c.

9. What were the major farmer organizations that emerged in the U. S. during the late 19c and identify the major contributions each made to agricultural reforms.

10. How was the National Alliance movement and evangelical Protestantism connected?  What was the impact of this movement on race issues in the post-bellum South?

11. What were the issues on the Populist Party platform?  What role did it play in the 1892 and 1896 presidential elections?

12. What were the links between southern women's reform efforts and evangelical Protestantism?  Compare and contrast southern women's reform movements with their counterparts in the North.

13. Why were there so many lynchings in the postwar South?

14. Explain the significance of the southern women's federated clubs.

                          ASSIGNMENT 4:

Sources:

• textbook --> pp. 561 - 573

• AMSCO --> pp. 317 - 321;  436 - 437 [Docs. C & D --> pp. 330 - 332].

• Heffner doc. book --> pp. 226 - 230.

Terms :

Questions:

1. What were the principle motivations for lynching in the postwar South?  What role did Ida B. Wells play in response to these horrors?

2. How did Plessy v. Ferguson substantially negate the effect of the equal protection clause of the 14th. Amendment?

3. Define the term "disenfranchisement" and list examples of how southern state governments effectively deprived blacks of the right to vote after Reconstruction.

4. What was the northern response to southern race policies during the late 19c?

5. Describe the rise of the black middle class in the post-bellum South.  How widespread were their economic problems?

6. What alternative paths of accommodation and resistance did black leaders propose to the rise of Jim Crow?

7. What was Booker T. Washington's prescription for black advancement?

8. How did W. E. B. DuBois's approach differ from that of Washington?