1. According to the historian Eric Foner, what thrived in the Reconstruction South? 2. For what purpose was the historical meeting at Charleston Clubhouse convened on January 14, 1868? Why have some referred to this session as “America’s Second Revolution”? Will this “Second Revolution” succeed? Explain. 3. Approximately how many new schools did black boys and girls in the South attend within five years after the end of the Civil War? How many new black colleges were opened within that same time period? Name for of those institutions mentioned in the article. 4. What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1875? What happened in 1883 when this law was challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court? 5. Describe the outlook and condition of small farmers in the South in the years immediately following the Civil War. 6. When/why was the first racially mixed jury formed in the South? 7. Why was Jefferson Davis such a hated man in 1865? What happened to Davis after the Civil War? 8. Why was Jefferson Davis back in his home state of Mississippi in 1872? 9. What was unique or exceptional about the community at Davis Bend? 10. Why did Joseph Davis’s sale of two of his plantations to Benjamin Montgomery have to be secret? 11. What supposedly made Joseph Davis a “model slave owner” of an “ideal” plantation? 12. Why couldn’t Benjamin Montgomery’s invention of a boat propeller be patented by Congress? 13. What were the colored citizens of Frankfort, KY petitioning Congress for on March 25, 1871? 14. What was sharecropping? How/why were freed persons kept under a condition/status of dependency within this system? 15. What Greek hero was “general” Grant compared to? What label was given to Grant to suggest he wasn’t an effective President? Did he deserve either label? Explain. 16. How/why did Congressional Reconstruction end? 17. In what way(s) did the old Southern guard take power back following Reconstruction? 18. What was a poll tax? 19. What “idea” was born during the Civil War according to the historian, Eric Foner? Why, according to Farmer, did 1877 mark “a decisive retreat” from this idea? 20. Define lynching. 21. Define segregation. 22. According to the historian, Edward L. Ayers, in The Promise of the New South, how/when did Congressional Reconstruction formally end in the following states? Virginia North Carolina Georgia Texas Alabama Arkansas South Carolina Mississippi 23. According to Ayers, when/what was Reconstruction’s “final gasp”? 24. Who was Jim Crow? 25. In what way(s) did white supremacy hurt the South? 26. In what way(s) was Reconstruction successful? 27. Who was the first leading Confederate to support the idea of votes for blacks? 28. How/why can Wade Hampton be considered a white supremacist? 29. In what way(s) did the gubernatorial victory of Wade Hampton in South Carolina in 1876 mark the end of Reconstruction in the state? 30. Who were “Redshirts”? 31. What occurred in South Carolina in the 1890s that resulted in the disenfranchisement of blacks? 32. Who were “redeemers”? 33. Compare the Republican and Democratic platforms during the period of Reconstruction using a T chart.