Unit 7 Review List

Review Terms and Concepts

The following list of key terms, people, and phrases make an excellent list to create flashcards for studying.

Andrew Johnson

Reconstruction

Ten-Percent Plan

Radical Republicans

Thaddeus Stevens

Wade-Davis Bill

Freedmen’s Bureau

Civil Rights Act of 1866

black codes

Fourteenth Amendment

Fifteenth Amendment

Reconstruction Act of 1867

impeach

scalawags

carpetbaggers

40 acres and a mule

sharecropping

tenant farming

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Panic of 1873

redemption

Election of 1876 candidates

Compromise of 1877

home rule

Great Plains

Treaty of Fort Laramie

George A. Custer

Custer’s last stand

assimilation

Dawes Act

Battle of Wounded Knee

Longhorns

Chisholm Trail

long drive

Joseph F. Glidden

What brought an end to the Open Range?

Homestead Act

exodusters

soddy

Morrill Act (1862 and 1890)

bonanza farms

Oliver Hudson Kelley

populism

Grange

Farmers’ Alliance

What the populist party stood for?

bimetallism

gold standard

William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley

Identify the legacy of Populism

Review Questions:

~What three groups made up the Republican Party in the South during Reconstruction?

~How did Andrew Johnson’s plan to reconstruct the Confederate states differ from Lincoln’s?

~What economic and political developments weakened the Republicans Party during Grant's second term?

~Why was cattle big business in the late 1800s?

~What economic problems confronted American farmers in the 1890s?

~What significance did the victory by Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1876 presidential race have for Reconstruction?

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