1. What were two of the most important questions during Reconstruction? How were they resolved?
2. What was Lincoln's Plan like, and why was it criticized? Congress's Plan? Andrew Johnson's Plan?
3. What was the Freedmen's Bureau, and what did it do?
4. What was Andrew Johnson's background? What were some of the conflicts during his presidency? Was he successful in getting his agenda passed? What action(s) did Congress take against him?
5. What did the 14th Amendment say? What was the fight over it like? What happened?
6. What were the military districts? How were Republicans in the South divided? What were the Republican governments in the Southern states like (what did they do? What did they not do?)?
7. What was sharecropping? What were its pros and cons? What role did the merchant play? Was it a good system?
8. What did the 15th Amendment say?
9. What was Grant's presidency like? What happened during Grant's presidency?
10. How did Reconstruction fall apart? What were the Slaughterhouse Cases, and what did they do? What was the election of 1876 like? What did the Compromise of 1877 do?
11. What was the Homestead Act of 1862, and what did it do? Why was farming difficult out west?
12. What was cattle ranching like? Why did they do it? Where did they take the cows? When did this end? What were the consequences, both during its operation and after it ended?
13. What was the Transcontinental Railroad? Where did it start? Where did it end? Why was it a race?
14. What did the railroads get from the US government? How did this affect western settlement?
15. What was the role of the Chinese in the West?
16. What happened to Mexicans in the west after the US annexed their land?
17. What and when were the "Indian Wars" (1861-1890)? What are some different Native American tribes that were involved in these? What did they accomplish? What was the situation in the west like before and after them? What were the major events discussed in lecture (Sand Creek, Little Big Horn, Apache resistance, Wounded Knee, etc.)? Who were the major players discussed, and what roles did they play (Chivington, Fetterman, Sitting Bull, Custer, etc.)?
18. What happened to the buffalo out west?
19. What was the Dawes Act? What was it intended to do? What were its effects?
20. What was the "Ghost Dance", what did it do, etc.? What was the "massacre at Wounded Knee"?
21. Who was Frederick Jackson Turner, and what did his Turner thesis say?
22. How did cities grow (be able to identify the major aspects discussed about internal migration, external immigration)? Why did people move?
23. Who were the Old Immigrants, and who were the New? What were the differences?
24. Who was Andrew Carnegie, and what was his industry? How did he become successful? What was vertical integration?
25. Who was John Rockefeller, and what was his industry? How did he become successful? What was horizontal integration / the trust?
26. Why did the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 break out, what was it like, and what was the outcome?