Inquisitive - Chapter 15: "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865-1877

List the following events of Reconstruction in chronological order.

1. thirteenth amendment 2. civil rights bill of 1866 3. fourteenth amendment 4. kkk established 5. enforcement acts

Select the areas of the map that cast their electoral votes for Republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant in the election of 1868.

Alabama ( state with 8 votes) California (state with 5 votes) Ohio ( state with 21 votes)

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.

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

Correct Answer(s) Samuel Tilden, the Democratic candidate, won the popular vote. The disputed electoral votes were in South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana. Incorrect Answer(s) The Republicans gained considerable support in the South because of freedmen's votes. Rutherford B. Hayes, the Republican candidate, was the only candidate to gain nationwide appeal.

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

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

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

Correct Answer(s) -They denied blacks the right to testify in court against whites. -They prohibited blacks from serving on juries. -They denied blacks the right to serve in state militias. -They did not allow blacks to vote. Incorrect Answer(s) -They required blacks to serve in the state militia for a period of time. -They did not allow black laborers to sign contracts.

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

Correct Answer(s) -by traveling -by locating and reuniting with loved ones from whom they had been separated under slavery -by attending mass meetings and religious services Incorrect Answer(s) -by purchasing land

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

Correct Answer(s) -pardon nearly all white southerners who took an oath of allegiance to the Union -appointment of provisional governors -refusal to pay Confederate debts -state conventions to establish new, loyal state governments -abolition of slavery -repudiation of secession Incorrect Answer(s) -requirement that black voters be protected -requirement that blacks be included in the state conventions

Identify the statements that describe sharecropping.

Correct Answer(s) -required farmers to divide the crop with the landowner at the end of the year -preferred by former slaves because it allowed them to work without white supervision -guaranteed planters a stable labor force -a compromise between blacks' desire for landownership and whites' desire to discipline their labor force Incorrect Answer(s) -provided a path to landownership for blacks

Identify the provisions of the Radical plan for Reconstruction.

Correct Answer(s) -the Fourteenth Amendment -state guarantees of black men's right to vote -temporary division of the South into military districts -creation of new state governments Incorrect Answer(s) -state guarantees of women's right to vote as citizens

Identify the groups the Ku Klux Klan targeted.

Correct Answer(s) -white Republicans -blacks who became landowners -African-American political leaders Incorrect Answer(s) -Democrats who refused to join the Klan

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

Correct Answer(s) He believed people of all races and national origins could become good Americans. Incorrect Answer(s) He believed only those born in the United States should be afforded the rights of American citizenship. His views foreshadowed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. He supported the deliberate exclusion of Chinese immigrants from American society.

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

Correct Answer(s) 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. Incorrect Answer(s) Many northerners thought Reconstruction plans didn't go far enough toward promoting equality for freed blacks, and so they proposed alternative legislation.

Read the excerpt below from A Sharecropping Contract (1866). In what ways does the contract limit the freedom of the laborers? (Click here to read the full document from the textbook

Correct Answer(s) The freedmen are required to compensate the landowner if they miss work for a day. The freedmen are contractually obligated to "obey" the landowner. Incorrect Answer(s) The landowner is allowed to deduct expenses from the profits of the freedmen without explanation. The freedmen are not allowed to sell the land for profit.

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

Correct Answer(s) the Supreme Court's failure to fully uphold the rights of blacks the economic depression of the early 1870s northern journalists' depictions of the failure of southern black leadership the growth of Democratic power in Congress Incorrect Answer President Grant's public denouncement of 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 ____________ , the U.S. Senate, and as governor of ___________. This represented a fundamental shift in power in the _______________.

House of Representatives Louisiana South

Read and analyze the "Who Is An American?" document from the chapter titled "The Composite Nation," derived from an 1869 Frederick Douglass speech in Boston. Click here to review the document. Complete the following statement. Douglass believed that the United States was a nation of __________ races. He believed that __________ and the right to hold office both were essential to freedom and citizenship. In this speech, in particular, Douglass argued for the rights and liberties of __________ in America.

innumerable migration the Chinese

Match the type of labor system used during Reconstruction to its appropriate description.

sharecropping - Tenants rented a portion of land, and the crop yield was divided between the tenant and owner task system - Workers were assigned daily tasks that, once completed, ended their daily responsibilities crop lien - Tenants used a portion of the crop as collateral to pay for supplies.

Andrew Johnson _______________ the Civil Rights Bill because he _____________ in black equality. Ultimately, Johnson believed that political power rested with ____________.

vetoed did not believe states