HY 103 Inquizitive Ch 15

The Republicans in Congress were unified in their vision for Reconstruction.

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Identify the ways in which blacks celebrated their freedom.

By purchasing guns and alcohol. By traveling. By attending mass meetings and religious services.

Watch the author video featuring Eric Foner. Identify the statements below that describe the Reconstruction amendments.

Consisted of three amendments, which ultimately led to the incorporation of black Americans into society as citizens. Served as the constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Former slaves worked to reunite and stabilize their families in the Reconstruction period.

True

How did the Black Codes attempt too regulate the lives of former slaves?

They denied blacks the right to serve in state militias. They prohibited blacks from serving on juries. They did not allow blacks to vote. They denied blacks the right to testify in court against whites.

How did Congress attempt to eradicate the power of the Ku Klux Klan?

Enforcement Acts

Watch the author video featuring Eric Foner. Identify the statements that describe the Civil Rights Bill of 1866.

Ensured all citizens enjoyed a set of basic rights. Defined all persons born in the United States as citizens.

The new state governments under the control of Republicans failed to improve life in the South during the Reconstruction.

False

Fill in the blanks to complete the statement describing the different versions of freedom in the Reconstruction South: The former slaves defined freedom as the right to mobility, education, political participation, and ___. Southern whites defined freedom as ___ , not a right. Northern Republicans believed freedom was the right of labor to ___ and advance in society.

Landownership Privilege Compete

Why did Northern Republican support for Reconstruction diminish in the 1870s?

Many Northerners believed that the South should be able to solve its own problems. Many believed that the federal government had created conditions of freedom, and success was now up to blacks. Many of the Radical Republicans who had established the reconstruction plan had died.

Identify the components of Andrew Johnson's plan for Presidential Reconstruction.

Pardon nearly all white Southerners who took an oath of allegiance to the Union. Repudiation of succession Appointment of provisional governors. Abolition of slavery State conventions to establish new, loyal state governments. Refusal to pay Confederate debts

Identify the statements that describe sharecropping.

Required farmers to divide the crop with the landowner at the end of the year. A compromise between blacks' desire for landownership and whites' need to discipline their labor force. Preferred by former slaves because it allowed them to work without white supervision.

Fill in the blanks to complete the statement describing the new systems of labor that emerged in the South: The ___ survived in the rice kingdoms of South Carolina and Georgia, while ___ was preferred in Louisiana's sugar plantations. ___ came to dominate in the cotton and tobacco regions of Virginia and North Carolina.

Task System Wage Labor Sharecropping

Identify the provisions of the Radical plan for Reconstruction.

The Fourteenth Amendment. Temporary division of the South into military districts. Creation of new state governments. State guarantees of black men's right to vote.

Identify the factors that contributed to the weakening of Northern support for reconstruction.

The Supreme Court's failure to uphold the rights of blacks. The economic depression of the early 1870s. The growth of Democratic power in congress. Northern journalists' depictions of the failure of Southern black leadership.

Read the excerpt below from 'A Sharecropping Contract' (1866). In what ways does the contract limit the freedom of laborers?

The freedmen are required to compensate the landowner if they miss work for a day. The freedmen are contractually obligated to "obey" the landowner.

How did the new state constitutions drafted during Radical Reconstruction expand public responsibilities and provide for equal rights?

They established a state-funded free public education system. They created a state-run and funded institutions like orphanages, prisons, and homes for the insane.

How did the Reconstruction amendments change the Constitution?

They established the federal government as the protector of rights. They expanded the definition of citizenship to include non-whites.

The Fifteenth Amendment divided the women's movement, as some of its leaders, who were disappointed that it didn't enfranchise women, separated from their former antislavery allies, while others stayed aligned with them in support of the greater cause for equal rights for all.

True

Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence describing the first state that gave women the right to vote: In 1869, ___ became the first state in the Union to establish woman suffrage because of the need to ___.

Wyoming Attract Settlers