InQuizative Chapter 15

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

-He believed people of all races and national origins could become good Americans.

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 believed that the federal government had created the conditions of freedom, and success was now up to blacks. -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.

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.

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.

Why was education so important to freed blacks during this era?

-They wanted the opportunity to take part in politics. -They wanted to be able to read the Bible. -They wanted to prepare to participate in the economic marketplace.

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

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

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

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 -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

Identify the statements that describe sharecropping.

-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

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

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.

1. Congress authorized the Tenure of Office Act in March 1867. 2. Johnson removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. 3. The House of Representatives initiated impeachment charges.

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

Enforcement Acts

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

False

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.

The Liberal Republican Party began to side with Democrats in believing that the federal government's power had grown too much during the war and needed to be curtailed.

true