HIUS 202
The United States since 1865
Discussion Questions
The following questions are not intended to be comprehensive; they are presented
as examples of questions you should ask yourself when reviewing your lecture
notes and reading material.
Jan 23-Jan 25 (Discussion II)
- What were "Black codes" and did they work?
- Why did Reconstruction end?
- Was Reconstruction a legal movement or a social movement?
- What did the Freedmen, white Northerners, and white Southerners (respectively)
want out of emancipation?
- Is the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson significant and why?
- What is sharecropping?
- What was the difference between New York City Democrats and Southern
Democrats in the post-Civil War era?
- How does the piece by Abraham Cahan show immigrants assimilating on
their own terms?
- Who was Boss Tweed and how does a political machine work?
- What is the difference between assimilation and cultural pluralism?