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CHAPTER 15 – Reconstruction and the New South

1. THE PROBLEMS OF PEACEMAKING

a. The Aftermath of War and Emancipation

b. Competing Notions of Freedom

c. Issues of Reconstruction

d. Plans for Reconstruction

e. The Death of Lincoln

f. Johnson and “Restoration”

2. RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION

a. The Black Codes

b. The Fourteenth Amendment

c. The Congressional Plan

d. The Impeachment of the President

3. THE SOUTH IN RECONSTRUCTION

a. The Reconstruction Governments

b. Education

c. Landownership and Tenancy

d. The Crop-Lien System

e. The African American Family in Freedom

4. THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION

a. The Soldier President

b. The Grant Scandals

c. The Greenback Question

d. Republican Diplomacy

5. THE ABANDOMENT OF RECONSTRUCTION

a. The Southern States “Redeemed”

b. The Ku Klux Klan Acts

c. Waning Northern Commitment

d. The Compromise of 1877

e. The Legacies of Reconstruction

6. THE NEW SOUTH

a. The “Redeemers”

b. Industrialization and the “New South”

c. Tenants and Sharecroppers

d. African Americans and the New South

e. The Birth of Jim Crow

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• sharecropping system
• Radical Republicans
• New South
• Plessy v Ferguson
• tenant farming

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Andrew Johnson
• Atlanta Compromise
• Black Codes
• Booker T. Washington
• Carpetbaggers
• Charles Sumner
• Compromise of 1877
• crop-lien system
• Enforcement Acts
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Freedman's Bureau
• Hamilton Fish
• Ida B. Wells
• Jim Crow laws
• Ku Klux Klan
• Panic of 1873
• Redeemers
• Scalawags
• Thaddeus Stevens
• Wade-Davis Bill
• William Seward
• Blanche K. Bruce
• Hiram Revels

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