Chapter 16

1.) How did the Radical Republicans gain control over reconstructing the South and what was the impact of their programs on ex Confederates, other white southerners, and southern blacks? 2.) How did freed blacks remake their lives after emancipation? 3.) What brought about the end of reconstruction? Should it be considered a success or failure? Why?

The 13 th Amendment The Freedmen’s Bureau Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan The Wade-Davis Bill Lincoln’s Response

Andrew Johnson’s Plan May 1865 declare secession illegal, reject Confederate debts, and ratify the 13 th Amendment. Property Owners

Johnson backtracks Alexander Stephens Black codes The Radical Republicans The Civil Rights Act of 1866

The 14 th Amendment Defining Citizenship Johnson’s Response to the 14 th Amendment The Congressional Override Thaddeus Stevens

Congressional Reconstruction The Military Reconstruction Act New Rules for readmission Land Redistribution

March 1867 The Tenure of Office Act Secretary of War Edwin Stanton General Ulysses S. Grant Impeachment

The 15 th Amendment race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Loopholes Women’s Rights Returning to the Union

The impact of Reconstruction laws The new electorate Carpetbaggers Scalawags New southern state governments

Counterattacks Vigilante Groups The rise of the Ku Klux Klan Restoring the Democrats Enforcement Acts

Life after slavery Finding Family Black Schools Sharecropping Crop liens

Grantism Ulysses S. Grant Horatio Seymour Grant’s Political Experience Scandals

Grant’s Second Term The Liberal Republican Party Horace Greeley Grant’s Second Term The Panic of 1873

The Supreme Court on the 14 th and 15 th Amendments Abandoning Reconstruction The Northern Perspective The Revival of the Democratic Party in the South

The Election of 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden The Compromise of 1877 The End of Reconstruction