History Honors – Textbook Sections and Key Terms: Constitution and Reconstruction

I. From Crisis to Constitution 190 - 194

- Philadelphia Constitutional Convention

- James Madison

- principle of checks and balances

- state representation compromises

- slavery compromises

- electoral college

- 3 branches of government/separation of powers

II. Opposition and Ratification 194 - 196

- Federalists

- Anti-Federalists

- Bill of Rights compromise

III. Equal Rights: The Unresolved Issue 443-446

- Northern attitudes toward land redistribution

IV. Johnson’s and Congressional Reconstruction Plans 446-453

- Lincoln's "10 percent" plan

- Johnson's amnesty plan

- black codes

- Thaddeus Stevens and Radical Republicans

- Freedman's Bureau and Reconstruction Act of 1867

- 13th and 14th Amendments

- Civil Rights Act

- Congressional elections of 1866

- Johnson's impeachment trial

- 15th Amendment

V. Reconstruction Politics in the South 453-460

- state constitutional conventions: Republicans v Democrats

- industrialization policies

- carpetbaggers and scalawags

- Ku Klux Klan

VI. Meaning of Freedom 460-465

- opportunities for education

- role of family and church

- sharecropping's appeal and abuse

VII. Reconstruction's Decline and Fall 465-471

- election of 1868 - Ulysses S Grant

- Anti-Klan laws

- election of 1872 - Horace Greeley

- midterm elections 1874 - Democrats win House

- Amnesty Act

- Panic of 1873

- greenbackers

- Slaughter-House Cases, US v Cruikshank, US v Reese

- election of 1876 - Rutherford B Hayes