Reconstruction

As you read the chapters for this week, answer all of the review questions listed below. Your responses should be in full and complete sentences in a minumum of 3 sentences per response. Include all responses in one (1) Word document.  

Davidson. (2011). US: A Narrative History, Volume 2: Since 1865 (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Chapter 17

1. What were Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's approaches to Reconstruction, and why did Congress reject Johnson's approach? Lincoln’s approach to Reconstruction was one that favored the slaves along with making the rebel states form a Union government. That would take place when 10% of those voting in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and Union. They would receive a Presidential Pardon. Johnson’s plan was similar to Lincoln’s, very lenient toward southern whites. They were both indifferent toward the freed black population. Congress rejected Johnson’s approach because they wanted full rights, including voting rights and economic assistance for African-Americans. They were afraid it would cause the re-enslavement of blacks.

2. What was Congress's approach to Reconstruction, and why did it not include a provision for giving land to former slaves? Congress wanted to

3. What roles did African American, southern whites, and northern whites play in the Reconstruction governments of the South?

4. In what ways were the church and the school central to African American hopes after the Civil War?

5. What factors in the North and the South led the federal government to abandon Reconstruction in the South?

Chapter 18

1. What factors explain the failure of the campaign for a "New South"?

2. How did segregation work as an instrument of social control?

3. How did Indian conceptions of the environment compare and contrast with white conceptions?

4. Through what means did American Indians lose their independence and land?

5. How did the pattern of labor...