Unit 7 – Terms and Concepts
Chapters 15-16
Irish/BHS
Fall, 2012
Chapter 15-Secession and the Civil War, 1861-1865
Chapter 16-The Agony of Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Abraham Lincoln
Secession and the Compact Theory
southern “cooperationists” vs. radical “fire eaters”
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens
Reasons for moderation at the Montgomery Convention
Crittenden Compromise
South Carolina’s firing on Fort Sumter (causes and effects)
Importance of the border states
“total war” (pg. 429)
North vs. South (advantages and disadvantages)
“anaconda policy”
conscription (instituting a draft) pg. 431
reliance on private industry for war materials
limitations of southern agriculture and infrastructure (pg. 434)
problems of financing the war in both the North and South
Lincoln’s wartime powers and suspension of civil liberties
Presidential leadership: Lincoln vs. Davis
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction), 1861 pg. 436
Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), 1862 pg. 438
Trent affair (pg. 440)
Reasons for southern failure to gain support from Britain and
France?
Emancipation Proclamation (causes and effects)
Thirteenth Amendment (pg. 443)
“a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”
Enrollment Act of 1863
New York City Draft Riots
Copperheads (aka “Peace Democrats”)
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Andrew Johnson (pg. 446)
Election of 1864
Sherman’s March through Georgia
Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9, 1865
Lincoln’s assassination, April 14, 1865
Effects of the War
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Human and economic costs
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Changing roles of Women
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Four million emancipated African-Americans
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Changing relationship between the federal
government and the states. (pg. 449)
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Changing economic policies enacted by the
Republicans during the war.
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Era of Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction vs. Congressional Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (aka the
10 Percent Plan / Presidential Reconstruction)
Radical Republicans
Wade-Davis Bill (aka the 50 Percent Plan / Congressional
Reconstruction)
Andrew Johnson
Johnson’s Reconstruction policy (effects and reactions from
Congress)
Black Codes (pg. 459 & 468)
Freedmen’s Bureau (pg. 460)
Civil Rights Act of 1866 ( pg. 460 & 466)
Johnson’s National Union movement
Fourteenth Amendment
Johnson’s “swing around the circle” tour
Radical Reconstruction
Radical Republican Leaders (Charles Sumner, Thaddeus
Stevens, and George Julian)
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Program of “regeneration before Reconstruction”
First Reconstruction Act (March 2, 1876)
Tenure of Office Act
Johnson’s impeachment
Southern economic problems after the war (pg. 465)
“forty acres and a mule”
Contract labor system
Sharecropping
Segregation in the south
southern Republican party (aka Radical regimes) , 1867
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carpetbaggers and scalawags
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poor white farmers
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newly enfranchised blacks
Panic of 1873
political corruption (pg. 469)
Ulysses S. Grant’s administration
Greenbacks
“sound” hard-money policy vs. “cheap” soft-money
Panic of 1873
Resumption Act of 1875
Greenback Labor Party
Fifteenth Amendment (pg. 471)
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Feminist reactions against ratification
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Lucy Stone’s support
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts
Democratic-Conservatives (aka “Redeemers”)
“spoilsmen” or “politicos”
Scandals of the Grant Era
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Gould and Fisk “Black Friday”, 1869
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Crédit Mobilier Scandal
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Whiskey Ring
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patronage / spoils system
Liberal Republican party and Horace Greeley
Election of 1876 (Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden)
Compromise of 1877
Redeemer Governments (pg. 475 – 477) – Effects southern
society – Jim Crow Segregation
“New South” Industrialism
Supreme Court Cases - *See chart on pg. 480
Unit 7 – Terms and Concepts
Chapters 15-16
Irish/BHS
Fall, 2012