History Chapter 15

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

According to the video, why was Frederick Douglass's perspective on the question, "Who is an American?" considered radical for the time?

Anybody and everybody should be allowed citizenship

The competing visions of Reconstruction between President Johnson and the Radical Republicans brought forth the nation's first impeachment charges. Place the following events in chronological order. Note that not all options must be used.

Congress authorized the Tenure of Office Act in March 1867. Johnson removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The House of Representatives initiated impeachment charges.

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.

In 1876, Winslow Homer painted this imaginary scene between a former slave and a slaveowner. What does he suggest about the relationship among freedmen and former slaveowners in his painting?

Freed blacks and former slaveowners still interacted frequently after emancipation. Freed blacks no longer had to show reverence to their former owners.

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.

High Concentration: far northern Alabama inland South Carolina inland Georgia

What arguments did the black petitioners make when urging President Johnson to allocate land to them?

Land ownership was a vital element of citizenship. The freedmen had worked the lands and therefore deserved ownership.

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

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

Fill in the blanks to complete the statement describing the different political offices black men filled during Reconstruction.

More than 2,000 African-American men held public office during Reconstruction. They were elected into positions at all levels of government, including the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and as governor of Louisiana. This represented a fundamental shift in power in the South.

Why did southern planters and merchants oppose Reconstruction and the new state governments?

Reconstruction governments were corrupt. Southern whites could not accept the idea of blacks' equality. Poor southern whites did not experience the improvement to their economic situation as they had hoped.

Which of the following are valid statements about the election of 1876?

Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate, won the popular vote. The disputed electoral votes were in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.

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

In what ways does the contract limit the freedom of the laborers?

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

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.

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.

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

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

List the following events of Reconstruction in chronological order.

Thirteenth Amendment, Civil Rights Bill of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, Ku Klux Klan established, Enforcement Acts

Click or tap to identify the former Confederate states that could not participate in the 1868 presidential election, due to Reconstruction.

Virginia, Texas, Mississippi

Analyze the cartoon "Practical Illustration of the Virginia Constitution" (ca. 1870), and complete the following statement.

Whites feared that Reconstruction would result in integrated schools and blacks having representation in the court system, including sitting on juries.

Click or tap to identify the western territory that in 1869 extended to women the right to vote.

Wyoming

Identify the groups the Ku Klux Klan targeted.

blacks who became landowners white Republicans African-American political leaders

Identify some of the ways in which blacks demonstrated their freedom following the end of the Civil War.

by attending mass meetings and religious services by traveling by locating and reuniting with loved ones from whom they had been separated under slavery

Identify the statements that describe the Civil Rights Bill of 1866.

defined all persons born in the United States as citizens ensured all citizens enjoyed a set of basic rights

Identify the statements that describe the objectives of the Freedmen's Bureau.

establish schools for blacks secure equal treatment for blacks before the courts settle disputes between blacks and whites provide aid to the poor and aged reorganize abandoned and confiscated land in the South into forty-acre plots to allocate to former slaves

Identify the provisions of the Radical plan for Reconstruction.

the Fourteenth Amendment temporary division of the South into military districts state guarantees of black men's right to vote creation of new state governments

Identify the factors that contributed to the weakening of northern support for Reconstruction.

the Supreme Court's failure to fully 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