Unit 8 – Terms and Concepts Irish/BHS Chapters 15-16 Fall, 2013 Chapter 15-Secession and the Civil War, 1861-1865 Chapter 16-The Agony of Reconstruction, 1863-1877 1. Abraham Lincoln 1. Era of Reconstruction 2. Secession and the Compact Theory 2. Presidential Reconstruction vs. Congressional Reconstruction 3. southern “cooperationists” vs. radical “fire eaters” 3. Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (aka the 10 Percent Plan / Presidential Reconstruction) 4. Confederate States of America 4. Radical Republicans 5. Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens 5. Wade-Davis Bill (aka the 50 Percent Plan / Congressional 6. Reasons for moderation at the Montgomery Convention Reconstruction) 7. Crittenden Compromise 6. Andrew Johnson 8. South Carolina’s firing on Fort Sumter (causes and effects) 7. Johnson’s Reconstruction policy (effects and reactions from 9. Importance of the border states Congress) 10. “total war” (pg. 429) 8. Black Codes (pg. 459 & 468) 9. Freedmen’s Bureau (pg. 460) 11. North vs. South (advantages and disadvantages) 10. Civil Rights Act of 1866 ( pg. 460 & 466) 12. “anaconda policy” 11. Johnson’s National Union movement 13. conscription (instituting a draft) pg. 431 12. Fourteenth Amendment 14. reliance on private industry for war materials 13. Johnson’s “swing around the circle” tour 15. limitations of southern agriculture and infrastructure (pg. 434) 14. Radical Reconstruction 16. problems of financing the war in both the North and South 15. Radical Republican Leaders (Charles Sumner, Thaddeus 17. Lincoln’s wartime powers and suspension of civil liberties Stevens, and George Julian) Program of “regeneration before Reconstruction” 18. Presidential leadership: Lincoln vs. Davis 16. First Reconstruction Act (March 2, 1876) 19. First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction), 1861 pg. 436 17. Tenure of Office Act 20. Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), 1862 pg. 438 18. Johnson’s impeachment 21. Trent affair (pg. 440) 19. Southern economic problems after the war (pg. 465) 22. Reasons for southern failure to gain support from Britain and 20. “forty acres and a mule” France? 21. Contract labor system 23. Emancipation Proclamation (causes and effects) 22. Sharecropping 23. Segregation in the south 24. Thirteenth Amendment (pg. 443) 24. southern Republican party (aka Radical regimes) , 1867 25. “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.” carpetbaggers and scalawags 26. Enrollment Act of 1863 poor white farmers 27. New York City Draft Riots newly enfranchised blacks 28. Copperheads (aka “Peace Democrats”) 25. Panic of 1873 29. Siege of Vicksburg 26. political corruption (pg. 469) 30. Battle of Gettysburg 27. Ulysses S. Grant’s administration 28. Greenbacks 31. Andrew Johnson (pg. 446) 29. “sound” hard-money policy vs. “cheap” soft-money 32. Election of 1864 30. Panic of 1873 33. Sherman’s March through Georgia 31. Resumption Act of 1875 34. Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 1865 32. Greenback Labor Party 35. Lincoln’s assassination, April 14, 1865 33. Fifteenth Amendment (pg. 471) 36. Effects of the War Feminist reactions against ratification Human and economic costs Lucy Stone’s support 34. Ku Klux Klan Changing roles of Women 35. Force Acts Four million emancipated African-Americans 36. Democratic-Conservatives (aka “Redeemers”) Changing relationship between the federal 37. “spoilsmen” or “politicos” government and the states. (pg. 449) 38. Scandals of the Grant Era Changing economic policies enacted by the Gould and Fisk “Black Friday”, 1869 Republicans during the war. Crédit Mobilier Scandal Whiskey Ring patronage / spoils system 39. Liberal Republican party and Horace Greeley 40. Election of 1876 (Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden) 41. Compromise of 1877 42. Redeemer Governments (pg. 475 – 477) – Effects southern society – Jim Crow Segregation 43. “New South” Industrialism 44. Supreme Court Cases - *See chart on pg. 480 Unit 8 – Terms and Concepts Irish/BHS Chapters 15-16 Fall, 2013 .