ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY
Homework Assignment
Reconstruction


Directions: Read Chapter Fifteen: Reconstruction, and answer the following questions in complete sentences. Your responses must be either typewritten or hand-written in black or blue ink.

  1. How did the actions of Andrew Johnson and ex-Confederates in the South help to spur the implementation of radical Reconstruction?

  2. How did African Americans' own idea of freedom shape their actions during Reconstruction in the South?

  3. Compare and contrast Lincoln's and Johnson's restoration plans.

  4. How were radical Reconstruction and Congress's struggle with President Johnson related?

  5. How effective was Republican rule in the South?

  6. How did sharecropping develop as a distinctive southern institution?

  7. Explain how a combination of southern resistance and northern loss of interest contributed to the end of Reconstruction.

  8. Was the Democrats' decision to accept the Compromise of 1877 a wise one? Explain your answer.

  9. Overall, how successful was Reconstruction?