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On the SAT II, about 20% of the test concerns economic history.  Out of 90-95 questions, that means there could be as many as 19 questions about economics.  Those 19 questions are where most students have the most difficulty.  But this lecture will make those 19 questions some of the easiest ones for you.  

On the SAT II, about 20% of the test concerns economic history.  Out of 90-95 questions, that means there could be as many as 19 questions about economics.  Those 19 questions are where most students have the most difficulty.  But this lecture will make those 19 questions some of the easiest ones for you.  

First, some review:  Reconstruction.  Using your imagination you can figure out what happened.  The South is destroyed and needs to be rebuilt economically and politically.  Much prejudice is going to remain.  There is going to be a great deal of animosity lingering between the North and South.  Some are going to favor compromise, some are going to be harsher.  An Amnesty Act will be necessary (one passed in 1872 to restore voting rights to most ex-Confederates).

First, some review:  [[Reconstruction]].  Using your imagination you can figure out what happened.  The South is destroyed and needs to be rebuilt economically and politically.  Much prejudice is going to remain.  There is going to be a great deal of animosity lingering between the North and South.  Some are going to favor compromise, some are going to be harsher.  An [[Amnesty Act]] will be necessary (one passed in 1872 to restore voting rights to most ex-Confederates).

 

Use your imagination to think of the issues:  What conditions will the North require before readmitting the South into the Union?  (Must ratify 13th Am to ban slavery)?  What do with Confederate officers?  (Most were immediately pardoned.)  How to govern the South?  (Divide it into five military districts.)  Congress is going to fight with the new President from Tennessee (Andrew Johnson).  Congress says that President Johnson cannot remove anyone from Lincoln’s Cabinet (Tenure of Office Act).  Johnson says that Congress cannot tell him what to do and removes the Secretary of War (now “Defense”) William Stanton anyway.  The House impeaches Johnson for it, but the Senate falls one vote short of convicting and removing him from office.

Use your imagination to think of the issues:  What conditions will the North require before readmitting the South into the Union?  (Must ratify 13th Am to ban slavery)?  What do with Confederate officers?  (Most were immediately pardoned.)  How to govern the South?  (Divide it into five military districts.)  Congress is going to fight with the new President from Tennessee (Andrew Johnson).  Congress says that President Johnson cannot remove anyone from Lincoln’s Cabinet (Tenure of Office Act).  Johnson says that Congress cannot tell him what to do and removes the Secretary of War (now “Defense”) William Stanton anyway.  The House impeaches Johnson for it, but the Senate falls one vote short of convicting and removing him from office.

Slavery was no longer an issue from the end of Reconstruction through 1900.  With the exception of one politician (Democrat Grover Cleveland, who looked like a Republican because he was from New York, favored the gold standard and opposed unions by sending in troops to put down the Pullman Strike in Chicago in 1894), Republicans controlled the White House.  During the Gilded Age, there were business scandals and there were political scandals.  But there was also tremendous prosperity.

Slavery was no longer an issue from the end of Reconstruction through 1900.  With the exception of one politician (Democrat Grover Cleveland, who looked like a Republican because he was from New York, favored the gold standard and opposed unions by sending in troops to put down the Pullman Strike in Chicago in 1894), Republicans controlled the White House.  During the Gilded Age, there were business scandals and there were political scandals.  But there was also tremendous prosperity.

== Debate Topics ==

==Debate Topics==

Debate:  Mexican War.

Debate:  Mexican War.