21H.102 The Emergence of Modern America

Study questions for the week of September 12th (Reconstructing a Nation)

1. What were the main problems facing the nation during Reconstruction?
2. Whose rights needed to be protected and why?
3. What issues did freedmen consider most important during Congressional reconstruction?
4. What were labor relations like in the post-emancipation South?
5. What measures did the national government take to transform conditions in the South?
6. What additional measures could the federal state have taken?
7. What was the intent of the Black Codes?
8. What was the intent of the Civil Rights Act? Who was responsible for enforcing this law, and what powers might they use?
9. How did Thaddeus Stevens's vision of Reconstruction compare to Andrew Johnson's?
10. What was radical about Reconstruction?
11. What were some of the critiques of a Reconstructed South?
12. What impeded further reform?
13. What was compromised in the Compromise of 1877?