Ch. 15 map exercises
How do the two maps of the Barrow plantation, roughly twenty years apart, illustrate the effects of emancipation on rural life in the South?
-Former slaves had their own church, and their children went to school. -Slaves that formerly lived in communal quarters now lived in separate homes and worked the land as sharecroppers.
The presidential election of 1876 saw some regions of the country leaning Republican and others leaning Democrat. Which statements correctly describe the geographic voting patterns?
-The new states out west were Republican territory. -The East Coast was mostly Democrat territory. -Southern states voted Democrat.
Analyze the map, and identify each of the regions below as having either a high or a low concentration of sharecropping activity around the year 1880.
-far northern Alabama -inland South Carolina -inland Georgia
Drag the labels into place to describe the outcome of the presidential election of 1876. A) most electoral votes for Hayes B) most electoral votes for Tilden C) most votes awarded to Hayes by the 1877 Electoral Commission
A) Penn B) NY C) Louisiana
Click or tap to identify the coastal area that became known as "Sherman land"—land set aside by General Sherman's Special Field Order 15, in January 1865, for the resettlement of black families after the Civil War.
Along the coast of South Carolina and Georgia
Click or tap to identify the first former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union, during Reconstruction.
Tennessee
Click or tap to identify the last four former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union, as Reconstruction came to a close.
Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia
Given the information in the map, how would the results of the 1876 presidential election best be summarized?
The hair's-breadth result showed how divided the nation was.
Click or tap to identify the former Confederate states that could not participate in the 1868 presidential election, due to Reconstruction.
Virginia, Texas, Mississippi
Click or tap to identify the western territory that in 1869 extended to women the right to vote.
Wyoming