Reading Assignments--Week Twelve:

McPherson, Chapters, 26-27-28
  

Andrew Johnson
Frederick Douglass
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
‘secesh” manners
Oliver O. Howard
Black Codes
14th Amendment
Tenure of Office Act
Impeachment
Bones and Banjoes Conventions
  

  
StudyQuestions:
  
Compare what we know about the post-war attitudes of Northern and Southern whites?
Describe the Johnson plan for reconstruction as issued in Presidential proclamations.
Describe the Radical Republican reaction to Johnson’s plans.
Why were land claims such an issue in the post-war South?
Why did the Congress and President disagree so violently over reconstruction?
Describe the Reconstruction Acts of 1867.