The Union victory in the Civil War and the contested Reconstruction of the South settled the issues of slavery and secession, but left unresolved many questions about the power of the federal government and citizenships rights. 

 

Important Events:

• Reconstruction

• Series of Scandals in the ealry 1870s

• Great Migration

 

Important Groups and People:

• Freedman's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• Copperheads

• Nativists

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Klu Klux Klan

• White League

• "Boss" Tweed

 

Important Documents:

• Ten-Percent Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Loyalty Oath

• Special Field Order No. 15

• 40 Acres and a Mule

• Congressional Reconstruction

• Fourteenth Amendment

• "Swing Around the Circle" public speaking tour by Johnson

• Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Comprimise of 1877

 

Important Vocabulary:

• Sharecropping

 

The Reconstruction

Intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural, and political issues led the nation into civil war.

 

Important Events:

• American Civil War

• Causes: Missouri Comprimise, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott v. Sandford, and Harper's Ferry Attack. 

• Hampton Roads Conference

• Sherman's March

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

 

Important People:

• Andrew Johnson

• Robert E. Lee

• Georger Armstrong Custer

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

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Important Groups or Sides:

• Border States

• Unions

• Radical Republicans

 

Important Documents and Plans:

• Confiscation Acts

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Thirteenth Amendment

 

Important Vocabulary:

• States's Rights

• Inflation

• Conscription

• Class Tensions

• War Profiteering

• Greenbacks

• National Currency

 

The American Civil War