Unit 6 Talking Points:
Chapter 20-21: Destruction
of the
1. How prepared was the North for War?
2. How prepared was the South?
3. What were the war aims of the North? The South?
4. What was the strategy of the South?
5. What was the strategy of the North?
6. Why
were the
7. What
was the significant lesson of
8. What advantages did the North have at the outset of the war?
9. What advantages did the South have at the outset of the war?
10.
Describe the split in opinion in
11. What happened to black civilians in the fall of 1861?
12. What was the Trent Affair?
13. How were women involved in this war?
14. What was the peninsular campaign, did it succeed? Explain.
15. Describe the wartime economy.
16. What was the purpose of emancipation?
17. What were the turning points in the war and why were these so important?
18. Describe the Draft Riots of 1863.
19. How did the war come to an end?
20.
Describe
Assignment:
Chart Advantages of the N and S at the war’s start.
Chapter 22- 23 up to p. 513 Reconstruction Questions:
1. Explain
2. How did congress attempt to protect the rights of new freedmen from former slave masters?
3. How successful was the Freedman’s Bureau?
4. What was Andrew Johnson’s stand on Reconstruction?
5. How Reconstructed were the southern states? Explain
6. Describe the economic conditions of the south.
7. How will southern society be reconstructed?
8. Describe the acts of the radical congress in influencing the course of reconstruction.
9. What was the purpose and effect of the 13th and 14th amendments?
10.Explain the split between the president and congress and trace its development.
11.How does the new congress of 1866 exercise their mandate to govern? Explain.
12. What did the Freedmen want? What were the odds of their getting it? Why?
13. How did Congress try to cut back on the President’s power and why?
14. How will all this change the south politically and economically?
15. How well did state readmission go? Explain.
16. How were New Constitutions better than the old ones and was there good representation?
17. Were new politicians really fit to govern? Explain.
18. How was the Republican coalition weak?
19. What led up to the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
20. What happened in the trial and what were the long term implications of this?
21. Describe the court cases of Reconstruction.
22. What was the gilded age? Describe the Grant Era.
23. What was the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
24. What was the Fisk and Gould scandal?
25. How was corruption rampant in NY and how did Tilden boost his career exposing it?
26. Describe the foreign affairs of the Grant administration.
27. Trace the rise and fall of the KKK.
28. Describe the liberal Republican movement- what did they identify as problems and fixes?
29. Describe campaign 72.
30. What was the cause and the effects of the collapse of 73?
31. What was the importance of 1876?
32. What was the compromise of 1877 and how did the politics of reconstruction make it inevitable?
33. What happened to the Freedmen? Describe with attention to the racism and oppression of the 70s-90s.
34.What was the Atlanta Doctrine (Compromise)?
35. What was Plessy v.
36. Describe the politics in the
new south, and the end of reconstruction (include the
37. Describe the doctrine of the new south. How was this influenced by the changing agrarian patterns and industrial stirrings?
Assignment:
Timeline of Reconstruction.