I. Overview Questions:

A) Discuss how the interpretation of Reconstruction has changed in the 20th century.

B) Discuss Andrew Johnson's background, and how that influenced the way he shaped Presidential Reconstruction.

C) How and why did the white South try to control the labor of the newly freed slaves? What kind of "labor system" did blacks push for, and eventually get?

D) What were some key elements of the Freedmen's own Reconstruction? In other words, what did blacks want, along with freedom? What were they able to actually get, and how?

E) Describe the key aspects of the Congressional Reconstruction Plan.

F) What made up the supporters for the Southern Republican party? When were they in power, and what were some of their accomplishments in the South?

G) How did the white South try to reassert control over the South, starting in the late 1860s? When did (in their words) "Redemption" finally happen, and how?

H) Discuss the idea of giving land to freed slaves. How might it have worked and  who wanted to see that happen?  What precedent during the war had there been? What happens to this idea, and why?

II. BIG overview questions: (or, let's summarize the semester!)

I) Why was there a Civil War?

J) Respond to this statement: "It was inevitable that the North won; the South had no chance!"  Argue for or against and give good reasons.

K) Describe what you think would have been necessary to have made a truly equal society in the South for blacks and whites after the War.

III. Identify the following: (who or what, when, where, why significant)

Lincoln's ideas on Reconstruction
Lincoln's death
Situation of South after war
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
Black Codes
Freedmen's Bureau
"carpetbaggers"
"scalawags"
Why Johnson impeached
Political corruption after War: how widespread?
KKK
Dunning school
U.B. Phillips
Carter Woodson
Kenneth Stamp

IV. Also know the following from earlier study guides:
Overview Questions:

1) Slavery was an economic, political, and cultural cornerstone of the life in the South by 1860. Explain.
2) What were the positions of North and South concerning expansion of slavery in territories? Explain some of the compromises that were patched together to "resolve" this issue in the 1800s. Why did  the ability to compromise on this finally fall apart in the 1850s?
3) Be able to explain the various reasons (economic, political, cultural)  why the Republican party went from being a weak 3rd part (Free Soil Party) in 1848, to winning the Presidential election in 1860.
4) Explain when and why Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote  Uncle Tom's Cabin. How popular did it become, and what impact did it have on the North?  What are the novel's dominant theme and key characters? What is Stowe's argument concerning why "kind" slave owners are as bad as cruel ones?
5) Why was Lincoln's election so significant to the South? Why were the secessionists so anxious to move quickly? What was the Northern response to this? Why didn't Upper South secede immediately as well?

6) In what ways was the Civil War a "total war", or "the 1st modern war."
7) Why was getting European (particularly English) recognition and alliances so important to the South, and why didn't it happen?
8) Describe Lincoln's use of federal power as a wartime President. Do you believe this was ethical or warranted? Why or why not?
9)  How was the Emancipation Proclamation both visionary and practical; a great moral statement but also a carefully devised political tool?
10)  How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the war?
 

Identify the following from the first study guide: (who or what, when, where, why significant)
Transportation Revolution
Abolition-key ideas, role in North
William Lloyd Garrison
 Wilmot Proviso
"Slave Power" concept
 Free Soil party:
John Calhoun and his position on the Union around 1850
Key parts of the Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
"Bleeding Kansas"
Dred Scott decision.
"House Divided" speech.
John Brown and his raid on Harper's Ferry.
 Lincoln's platform in 1860 concerning slavery
 Nat Turner; effects of his revolt
Underground Railroad
Ft. Sumter
Jefferson Davis

Identify the following from the second study guide: (who or what, when, where, why significant)
The Lost Cause
The Union's  "Anaconda Plan."
1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Port Royal
"contraband"
Missouri guerilla warfare during war
Massachusetts 54th regiment
Role of blacks in Union army
Antietam (Sharpsburg)
Fredericksburg
New York City Draft Riots
Gen. George McClellan
Stonewall Jackson
Clara Barton
Robert E. Lee
U.S. Grant
Philip Sheridan
William Tecumseh Sherman
James Longstreet
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Pickett's Charge
"20 Negro" exemption
Sherman's March to the Sea
Battle of the Wilderness, 1864
Copperheads
Union Election of 1864
Petersburg
Legislation in Confederacy to enlist freed slaves
Appomattox Courthouse surrender