HIS 17B Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - White People, United States Senate, Political Party
HIS 17B
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
● U.S. History since 1865
● Syllabus
○ OH: M 10-12 @SSH 3201
○ PROF: Kathrn Olmsted ([email protected])
○ Contact TA first
● Books
○ Sinclair, The jungle
○ Arnesen, Black protest and great migration
○ Schulman, Lyndon B. Johnson and American liberalism
○ Story and Laurie, The rise of conservatism in America, 1945-2000
○ Online textbook: the american yawp
○ Draw on The American Yawp Reader
○ (~ read a book every 1.5 weeks)
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Lecture 1
● Themes:
○ Politics of fear
■ who/why are americans afraid of, how can we compare the movement of
fear over time..etc?
○ Expansion of federal government
■ Expands particularly with wars
■ Civil rights movement of 1960s make federal government honor the
promises it made in 1860s.
○ Struggle for equal rights
● Reconstruction, Reunion, and Reaction
○ Presidential Reconstruction
■ (1865, ends of civil war) 36000 soldiers in confederate army died, 26000
in fed army died
■ After war, north leaders have to decide what to do with south, punish
southerners? New regulations?..etc
● Abraham Lincoln’s plan (the nice guy)
○ republican
○ Forgive the traitors, don’t hang them, lenient plan for
southern white leaders
■ Full pardon to most confederates who swear loyalty
to the U.S. and its laws
■ When 10% of this white men in a state take this
oath, the state can form a government
■ State government needs to accept abolition of
slavery
● 13th amendment -- no more slavery in the
U.S. allowed.
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■ 1865 April, Lincoln was assassinated.
○ Radical republican(a political party), led by senator
benjamin wade, wants to reconstruct south to make them
abolish all slavery & accepts all human right
■ 10% is way too low, should be 50% of men
swearing!
■ Not enough to just abolish slavery, new state
government has to promise to respect equality
before the laws. (every law treats everyone the
same)
● Andrew Johnson’s plan (new president after Lincoln)
○ VP of Lincoln for a month, a democrat, senator from
Tennessee at the time civil war broke out.
○ He decided to stay in senate after his southern state
succeeded.
○ “Much more lenient plan than Lincoln’s”
○ Give back everything, won’t prosecute anyone, forgive
everything.
○ Very determined racist guy believing in white supremacy.
○ Send southern traitors leaders to congress, with no
punishment
○ Used the term “ restoration ” instead of Lincoln’s
“reconstruction” to describe the situation
■ Started passing BLACK CODES
● Black people can’t vote, serve on juries,
change employers, move residence, be
ministers, drink alcohol, own land, carry
guns or knives...etc.
○ Congressional Reconstruction
■ Conflict with johnson
● Increasing rebellion in congress against these racist actions.
○ Many anti-slavery activists started passing laws against the
racists.
■ Some firmly believes in equal right, some just do it
for political motivation.
● Fighting back against black codes
○ Civil right laws passed, 1866
■ Recognized for african americans “the civil rights
belonging to white persons”
■ Results of 1866 Election
● Big republican majorities in congress
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Document Summary
Not enough to just abolish slavery, new state government has to promise to respect equality before the laws. (every law treats everyone the same) Andrew johnson"s plan (new president after lincoln) Used the term restoration instead of lincoln"s. Hey johnson, we"re done with what you did and we"ll fight back now!!!!! To fight against violent in south (kkk) Grant : new president elected after johnson. He was general for lincoln during civil war, determined to protect blacks. Reunion and reaction -- war is over, but at expense of freed people. Takeaways: culture: the violent nature of westward expansion, the creation of the mythic american west, and how it continues to pervade our, same arguments used to justify expansion as moved into the pacific, caribbean. Europeans" see their arrivals to america and taking over of the natives land as manifest destiny . Europeans = superior/god"s will, natives = inferior. God wanted europeans to spread democracy and take control.
