Unit+2

= = **Part one**

QUESTIONS

** 1 - in 1789 what departments did Congress create? ** Department of State, Department of Treasury, and Department of War

** 2 - What Act did Congress pass to organize the judiciary? ** ** The ** Judiciary Act

** 3 - When was the Bill of Rights ratified? ** December 15, 1791

** 4 - Who wanted to create a national bank? ** ** Alexander Hamilton **

** 5 - What was the first financial crisis the new nation faced? ** Panic Of 1819

** 6 - What was the significance of the Marbury v. Madison case? ** The Idea Of The Judicial Review

** 7 - What did the election of 1800 show? ** The Election of 1800 showed that the executive branch could be won by a non-Federalist.

** 8 - How was the District of Columbia created ** February 20, 1967: The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is // created // through a compact between the // District //// of // // Columbia //, Maryland and Virginia

** 9 - What is the difference between enumerated powers and implied powers ** ** E **numerated - Spelled out Implied - Strongly suggest the truth or existence of The constitution enumerates a number of rights reserved to the people including press, speech, assembly. . . but implies privacy, as case law has dictated -- while the right to privacy isn't enumerated in the constitution, it can be found in the penumbra.

** 10 - How many terms did Washington serve as President ** ** He served two terms **

** 11 - What was one of Adams' most urgent challenges when he became President? ** the Alien and Sedition Act

** 12 - What was the effect of the Treaty of Paris 1783? ** it established the mississippi as the western border of the US

** 13 - Briefly outline the War of 1812 - include major military engagements (you may need wikipedia for this) ** include major military engagements

** 14 - What was the Tariff of 1816? ** to protect the american manufacturers by taxing imports

** 15 - what was McCulloch V. Maryland? and What was the result? ** Maryland's attempt to tax the baltimore branch of the second bank of the US the result was 1. The Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government. 2. State action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government

** 16 - Use the chart above and copy the information into your wiki page for unit 2 **

** 17 - What was the "border question" (Florida and Spain) who and what groups were involved, what was the result ** The West Florida Controversy was a series of border disputes between Spain and the United States over the territory known as West Florida. The controversy commenced immediately after Spain received the colonies of West and East Florida from the Kingdom of Great Britain following the American Revolutionary War, and continued for nearly four decades. Initial disagreements were settled with Pinckney's Treaty of 1795, but contention rose again following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The controversy led to the secession of the bulk of West Florida, known as the "Republic of West Florida", from Spanish control in 1810, and its subsequent annexation by the United States. In 1819 the United States and Spain negotiated the Adams–Onís Treaty, in which the United States purchased the remainder of Florida from Spain.

** 18 - What was the Monroe Doctrine? ** a United states policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823, which stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed, by the United States of America, as acts of aggression requiring US intervention

** 19 - What were the outcomes of the Adams-Onís Treaty and the Monroe Doctrine? ** when the president declared that the continents should no longer be viewed as open to colonization.

** 20 - How did industrialization affect cities in the United States? ** They got bigger and bigger

** 21 - How does the government of your community raise the money it needs to pay for community services? How does the government of the United States raise the money? ** **How does the government of the United States raise the money? **

** 22 - Give me a quote from Fredrick Douglass ** "The Dark Night of slavery closed in upon me"

__**Constitution Terms**__
**popular sovereignty**- or the sovereignty of the people is the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.

**federalism**- The distribution of power in an organization (as a government) betweena central authority and the constituent units.

**enumerated powers**- are a list of items found in Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution which set forth the authoritative capacity of the US congress.

**Reserved powers**- or Reserved Matters, are those subjects still dealt with by the United Kingdom Parliament, and not devolved to the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly

**concurrent powers**- powers that are held by both the states and the federal government and may be exercised simultaneously within the same territory and in relation to the same body of citizens.

**override**- a procedure employed by the U.S. Congress

**appropriate**- a sense of behavioral conduct that differentiates intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are good (or right) and bad (or wrong).

**impeach**- call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice) constituent- being a part of a whole

**bill**- an amount of money owed for goods supplied or services rendered, set out in a printed or written statement of charges standing committee- permanent committee that meets regularly.

**select committee**- small legislative committee appointed for a special purpose

**joint committee**- a term in politics that is used to refer to a committee made up of members of both chambers of a bicamerallegislature

**conference committee**- an ad hoc joint committee of a bicameral legislature, which is appointed by, and consists of, members of both chambers to resolve disagreements on a particular bill.

**cabinet**- a body of advisers to the President, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government judicial review- review by the U.S. Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of alegislative act.

**due process**- fair treatment through the normal judicial system, esp. as a citizen' sentitlement.

=**Part two** =

__//1 - Describe the Missouri Compromise://__ The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to maintain the balance of power between the North and South when Missouri petitioned for statehood. The Compromise allowed Missouri, a slave state, and Maine, a free state, in together thereby maintaining equality between the two sides. However, the Compromise went on to prohibit slavery in the rest of the Louisiana

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__//3 - What was the "corrupt bargain"://__ When the 1824 election ended without any candidate receiving a majority in the electoral college, the House of Representatives awarded the election to John Quincy Adams. =====

__//4 - What was the political result of the "corrupt bargain"?//__ Clay had secured votes for Adams in returen in a cabinet post

 __//5 - How did a large number of people gain the right to vote in the 1800's?//__ ﻿Many states lowered or got rid of property ownership as a voting requirement.

 __//6 - Do you agree with the idea of a spoils system? Why or why not?//__ I disagree, I feel that jobs should be a based on qualifications, not party affiliation.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//7 - Why did South Carolina threaten to secede in 1828 and what was the crisis called?//__ When congress levied a new tariff of abominations.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//8 - How did President Jackson feel about the nullification problem and what did he do?//__ ﻿He argued that because the states had crated the federal union.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//9 - What effort did Jackson accelerate?//__ Moving them out of the way of white settlers

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//10 - What was the Indian Removal Act?//__ First major legislation that reversed the U.S. policy of respecting the rights of American Indians. The act granted tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their territories within state borders, mainly in the Southeast.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//12 - What did Jackson do the Second Bank of the United States?//__ Jackson opposed the bank because they had become a monopoly, bribed and bought legislators throughout the country and were controlling the passage of laws and bills, using business to control what happened to the country, rather than allowing the citizens to determine what they wanted.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//13 - What did the Whig political party want to do?//__ They accomplished expanding the federal government

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//14 - What was the panic of 1837?//__ Was a financial crisis in the United States built on a speculative fever.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//15 - What happened to Harrison and who took his place?//__

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//16 - Name some of the groups and preachers of The Second Great Awakening://__ Methodist, Baptists,

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//17 - Answer the question in the "history through art" section above://__ It looks fun, and everyone eles is there.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//18 - Summarize issues in the Women's movement section above.//__ A movement in support of women's rights, especially the mid-twentieth century movement in North America and Europe.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//19 - Why did people object to the anti-slavery movement?//__ Advocacy of the abolition of slavery.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> __//20 - How did southerners describe the institution of slavery?//__ There were mulitple reasons why the South could justify slavery.

__Vocabulary:__

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">caucus - a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular political party, to select candidates or decide policy. =====

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">emancipation - set free, esp. from legal, social, or political restrictions


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 * Manifest Destiny: belief that the United States (often in the ethnically specific form of the "Anglo-Saxon race") was destined to expand across the North American continent.**


 * annexation: incorporation of some territory into another geo-political entity**


 * popular sovereignty: the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.**


 * secession: the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or especially a political entity.**


 * Underground Railroad: an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause.**


 * adjacent: adjective meaning contiguous, adjoining or abutting**


 * transcontinental railroad: a railroad network of trackage that crosses a continental land mass, with termini at different oceans or continental borders.**


 * insurrection: A limited rebellion**


 * prospect: the possibility of future success**


 * Confederacy: an association of sovereign states or communities.**




 * Bear Flag Republic: June 14, 1846 **
 * a revolt against Mexico proclaimed by California settlers**
 * Declared during the Mexican–American War**
 * The "republic" vanished and Ide enlisted in the U.S. forces as a private.**
 * The sole legacy of the "California Republic" was the adoption of its flag as the basis of the modern state Flag of California.**


 * Wilmot Proviso:August 8, 1846**
 * would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War**
 * first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846 as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill**
 * passed the House but failed in the Senate**
 * Was not passed due to the souths greater representation**


 * Republican Party: 1854**
 * formed by anti-slavery activists, modernizers, ex-Whigs and ex-Free Soilers**
 * The first official party convention was held on July 6, 1854**
 * dominated most northern states**
 * opposed slave labor**
 * one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States**


 * Crittenden’s Compromise:(December 18, 1860)**
 * an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis**
 * consisted of six proposed constitutional amendments and four proposed Congressional resolutions**
 * guaranteed the permanent existence of slavery in the slave states**
 * popular among Southern delegates in the Senate**
 * Lincoln condemned the compromise as one that did not deal with the future of slavery in America**

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**1. What was the Louisiana Purchase**? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803.

The first land run into the Unassigned Lands and included all or part of the 2005 modern day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the U.S state of Oklahoma.
 * 2. What was the Oklahoma Land Grab? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px;">Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Santa Fe Trail.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Define the East-West routes used by the 1840's **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**4. What land did the United States obtain under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo**? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado (see Article V of the treaty). Mexico relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">It was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bexar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas). All but two of the Texian defenders were killed. Santa Anna's perceived cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Describe the Battle of the Alamo and what did it eventually lead to? **

Texas and Oregon.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Polk promised to add which two states? **

The was between Mexico and the United States had it's beginning with the struggle over who would control Texas.
 * 7. Describe how the war with Mexico began **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">John O’Sullivan.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. Where did the idea of Manifest Destiny come from? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the Untied States Upper California and New Mexico.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. What treaty ended the war with Mexico and what were the terms or the treaty? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Nicknamed the "cast-iron man" for his determination to defend the causes in which he believed, Calhoun supported states' rights and nullification, under which states could declare null and void federal laws which they deemed to be unconstitutional.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. What did Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina argue about slaves in the territories? **

It's main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery.
 * 11. What were the beliefs for the "free soil" party. **

When gold was found by James. W Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. New of the discovery brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the Unites States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea and half walked overland.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12. What triggered the California gold rush? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compromise of 1850 was an intricate package of five bills, passed in September 1859, defusing a four year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North that arose following the Mexican-American War in 1846-1848
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13. What was the compromise proposed by Henry Clay? **

Declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters, to give a reason to hunt any African-American.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14. Describe the Fugitive slave act and how was it used? **

<span style="font-weight: normal; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">To promote growth in the territories the route.
 * 15. Why was the route of the transcontinental railroad so important? **

The Compromise was greeted with relief, although each side disliked specific provisions. These provisions ultimately led to failure.
 * 16 - Why did the Compromise of 1850 not succeed in ending sectional division? **


 * 17. Describe how Kansas became "Bleeding Kansas?" What was the Kansas Nebraska Act? **
 * After a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858. At the hear of the conflict was the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state. As such, Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war between Northern and Southerners over the issue of slavery in the Unites States. The term "Bleeding Kansas" was coined by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune; the events it encompasses directly presaged the American Civil War. **


 * 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. **

The Know-Nothings were members of a U.S. political movement during the mid-1800s: Americans who feared the foreign influence of immigrants (there was an influx of new arrivals in the 1840s) banded together, sometimes in secret societies, in order to uphold what they believed to be the American view. When people who were thought to be members of these groups were asked about their views and activities, the typical response was, "I don't know," which gave the movement its name.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18. Who were the "know nothings"? **

A ruling by the U.S Supreme Court that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves (or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves) were not protected by the constitution and could never be U.S citizens. The court also held that the U.S Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories and that, because slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court. Lastly, the Court ruled that slaves, as chattels or private property, could not be taken away from their owners without due process.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">19. Describe the Dred Scott Court case and what were the results and the effects **

Over a platform dispute, led by William Lowndes Yancey.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">20. Why did Southern Democrats walk out of the Democratic Convention? **

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__//** Vocabulary Define: **//__

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">martial law <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - military government involving the suspension of ordinary law.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">greenback <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - a dollar bill; a dollar

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">conscription <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">habeas corpus <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, esp. to secure the person's <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">attri-tion <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - the gradual reduction of a workforce by employees' leaving and not being replaced rather than by their being laid off

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">siege <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">compelling the surrender of those inside

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">conceive <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - form a mental representation of; imagine

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">subordinate <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - lower in rank or position

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">mandate <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> - an official order or commission to do something

__//** People and Terms Identify: **//__ = = =__//** Questions **//__=

//** 1 - How did Lincoln show he wanted to avoid war? **// He addressed the seceding states directly, repeating his commitment not to interfere with slavery where it already existed. //** 2 -Describe the battle for Fort Sumpter **// The battle for Fort Sumpter: Lincoln wanted to supply Fort Sumpter. President Jackson was faced with a problem. He could shoot at the supply ship and provoke war with the U.S, OR surrender. In the end, he surrendered. //** 3 - List the states of the confederacy **// Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. //** 4 - What additional factors are not considered when comparing population percentages between the Union and the Confederacy? (check the graph at the top of the page) **// Mostly Education //** 5 - Define civil liberties. Do you believe the government is justified limiting civil liberties during wartime? **// Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the right to life, freedom from torture, freedom from slavery and forced labour, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, and the right to marry and have a family. Not exactly, for example, if freedom from torture was limited, it would kind of be inhumane. //** 6 - Why did the call for military volunteers lead more states to secede? **// The volunteers did not want to take up arms against their fellow southerners. //** 7 - Summarize the difference in economies between the north and the south **// North: manufacturing, wanted to end slavery, bigger then the south, could maintain their military South: agriculture, wanted slavery, smaller, could NOT maintain their military //** 8 - Summarize the political situations for Lincoln and Davis **// Lincoln: Civil war had pushed him to make the Emancipation Proclamation, he felt that imposing a harsh peace would only alienate many whites in the South. Davis: Felt pressure for a quick victory //** 9 - List the factors that made the American Civil War the first "moden" war **// Huge armies that consisted mostly of civilian volunteers and required vast amounts of supplies. inventors had developed an inexpensive conoidal or cone-shaped bullet that was accurate at much greater distances. This resulted in much higher casualties. Attrition, the wearing down of one side by the other through exhaustion of soldiers and resources //** 10 - What steps did the North, and eventually the south, take to staff their armies? **// A large sum of money would be given to the men who stayed in the army for three years. //** 11 - How were blockade runners used by the south? **// small, fast vessels the South used to smuggle goods past the blockade, usually at night. //** 12 - Use wikipedia, list the major battles of the civil war and their results. **// Antietam / Sharpsburg Maryland September 16-18, 1862 Over 6,000 men killed and around another 16,000 wounded Bull Run / Blackburn's Ford Virginia July 18, 1861 Union lost, North would need a large, well trained army to prevail against the South. Chattanooga Tennessee November 23-25, 1863 North won and secured eastern Tennessee. Chickamauga Georgia September 18-20, 1863 Fredericksburg I / Marye's Heights Virginia December 11-15, 1862 Gettysburg Pennsylvania July 1-3, 1863 Shiloh / Pittsburg Landing Tennessee April 6-7, 1862 Spotsylvania Court House / Corbin's Bridge Virginia May 8-21, 1864 Stones River / Murfreesboro Tennessee Dec 31, 1862-Jan 2, 1863 Wilderness / Furnaces / Todd's Tavern Virginia May 5-7, 1864 //** 13 - List some of the problems the south began to suffer by the end of 1862 **// Food shortages, riots, economic depression and loss of troops. //** 14 - Describe the life of union and confederate soldiers **// Hard life with few comforts, faced constant threat of disease and extreme medical procedures if they got injured in battle. //** 15 - Why do you think so many African Americans were willing to volunteer to fight? **// They wanted their freedom from the South. //** 16 - For how long was the city of Vicksburg under siege by Grant’s Union forces? **// May 19, 1863 to July 4, 1863 //** 17 - Spring 1864, what two crucial objectives had Grant accomplished? **// Capturing Vicksburg and victory at Chattanooga //** 18 - What effect do you think would the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment have on African Amer- icans? Why? **// The Emancipation Proclamation officially permitted African Americans to enlist in the Union military and navy. This gave them the right to fight what they believed in. The Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the United States... The effect speaks for itself. //** 19 - What would account for the thousands of non-battle deaths listed in one of the graphs? **// Sickness //** 20 - Why did General Sherman march his army to the sea? **// To sieze Georgia's first settlement.

=__<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Part 5 __= = = =__People and Terms:__= = Reconstruction - the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed = = = = = = amnesty - an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses = = = = = = pocket veto - an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor byretaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session. = = = = = = freedman - an emancipated slave = = = = = = black codes - were laws passed on the state and local level in the United States to limit the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks. = = = = = = impeach - call into question the integrity or validity of (a practice) = = = = = = infrastructure - the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. = = = = = = tenant farmer - a person who farms rented land = = = = = = sharecropper - a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent = = = = = = circumstance - a fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action﻿ =





=__﻿Questions__= <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">1 - Who looked forward to a Union victory? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> The whole north

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">2 - Describe Lincoln's plan for reuniting the country. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> defeating them in a war and help rebuild them so they can trust the north again

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">3 - What effect would the abolition of slavery have on southern representation in congress? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Explain they would not have as many <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">worker to pick the cotton

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">4 - What was the "wade-davis bill?" <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. In contrast to PresidentAbraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">5 - How did Lincoln deal with the Wade-Davis Bill? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> he agreed and fallowed the bill until it passed

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">6 - What were the events that lead to the assassination of Lincoln? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> (Use wikipedia) The war ended slavery was being abolished the south was starting to be rebuilt

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">7 - How did Johnson react to the 14th amendment? What were the results? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">He attacked it and made it major issue of the 1866 congressional election

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">9 - How many years after the war was the last Southern state readmitted to the Union? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Georgia was the last state to rejoin the Union on July 15, 1870, a little over five years after the civil war ended.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">10 - Why was Johnson impeached? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> violated tenure of office act.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">11 - Define who were the Carpetbaggers and Scalawags? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Carpetbaggers was a dirty name for Northerners, Scalawags were southerners who wanted the reconstruction of the south.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">12 - Describe the creation of Republican governments in the south. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> people got to gather to debate and became republicans

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">13 - O.O. Howard, head of the Freedmen’s Bureau, is pictured here (far right) with the students of a Freedmen’s school. Why do you think these schools were so successful? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> They were school for black kids who wanted to learn

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">14 - What was one of the largest "secret societies" to rise in the south? How did congress respond the their activities? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> kkk was the largest in the south.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">15 - What were some of the scandals that faced the Grant administrations? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> south people tried to start up the rebellion again.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">16 - How did Democrats regain strength in the south? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> because they still had money and power and connections in the north.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">17 - What values and policies do you associate with today’s Republican and Democratic Parties? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> (use the internet to research each party's platform)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">18 - Describe the rise of the "New South" <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> The north built new cities and rebuilt old ones that's why we had high powered south cities like Atlanta

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">19 - If you disagree with a political decision, how can you change it? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> Start a group of people that don't agree with it and take it to court.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">20 - What major issue was settled by the Compromise of 1877? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> The presidential election of 1876.