American History
Chapter 12 Test
Study Guide

Important People

Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Edwin M. Stanton
William H. Seward
Parson William Brownlow
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
Hiram Revels
P.B.S. Pinchback
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ulysses S Grant
Horatio Seymour
Samuel Tilden
Rutherford B. Hayes

Important Terms and Concepts

How an amendment is made to
the Constitution
Emancipation
Reconstruction
XIII Amendment
XIV Amendment
XV Amendment
Freedman
Freemen’s Bureau
Black Codes
Pocket Veto
The 10% Plan
The Wade-Davis Bill
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
The Reconstruction Act
The Southern Homestead Act
Impeachment
The Tenure of Office Act
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Sharecroppers
Tennant Farmers
The New South
Trans-Continental Railroad
Credit Mobilier
Corruption in politics
Ku Klux Klan
The Enforcement Act
The Compromise of 1877

Possible Essay Topics

Problems in the South
Compare the different plans
for Reconstruction
Black codes
Andrew Johnson’s
Impeachment
Voting in the South
Sharecroppers’ debt cycle
Political corruption
The New South
The Election of 1877
 

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