Question 1

How and when did Congress gain control of Reconstruction? How did the process change? Describe how Congress prevented Andrew Johnson from interfering in the process.

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Question 2

Describe the provisions of the sharecropping system.

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Question 3

Explain the consequences of the Panic of 1873.

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Question 4

Describe the process of Presidential Reconstruction. How and why did Abraham Lincoln's assassination change the process? How did Andrew Johnson's administration help lead to Congressional Reconstruction?

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Question 5

Write a passage on the black codes.

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Question 6

Discuss the practice of convict leasing as practiced by southern landowners and politicians.

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Question 7

Why did Reconstruction collapse? Discuss the Presidential election of 1876, the Compromise of 1877, and why northerners were ready to end the attempts to change the South.

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Question 8

Examine the ways in which the former slaves' lives changed after the end of the Civil War. How did black southerners seek to control their lives and participate in the electoral process? What was the response from white southerners?

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Question 9

Explain the three Reconstruction Amendments. Why and when were they ratified? Why did the Congress believe it was necessary to change the Constitution?

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Question 10

Explain the women's rights movement that emerged during Reconstruction.

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Quiz 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877