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Who made up the majority of the Republican party in the South in the late 1800s?

A) Scalawags
B) Owners of small businesses
C) Carpetbaggers
D) African Americans

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What problem plagued the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South?

A) Lack of support from poor blacks
B) Indifference toward racial discrimination
C) Corruption
D) Lack of ambition

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After Ulysses S.Grant,the former Union general,was elected president in 1868,he

Why did many slaves flee the biracial Methodist church soon after emancipation?

How did Congress respond to southern Republicans' pleas for federal protection from the racism and violence of the Ku Klux Klan?

The 1868 drawing Selling a Freeman to Pay His Fine at Monticello,Florida,equated the newly instated black codes to what?

Match the term with the definition. -Legislation passed by Congress that nullified the black codes and affirmed that black Americans should have equal benefit of the law.This expansion of black rights and federal authority drew a veto from President Johnson,which Congress later overrode.

What was the result of the election of 1874?

According to Map 16.3: The Reconstruction of the South,which former Confederate state was first to be readmitted to the Union?

Although Johnson had left the Democratic party before becoming president,he seemed more a Democrat than a Republican as president because he

How did the Fourteenth Amendment deal with voting rights?

Abraham Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plans shared an emphasis on

Match the term with the definition. -Government organization created in March 1865 to distribute food and clothing to destitute southerners and to ease the transition of slaves to free persons.Early efforts by the organization to distribute land to the newly freed blacks were later overturned by President Johnson.

By the early 1870s,the congressional reconstruction goals of 1866

Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 extraordinary?

Match the term with the definition. -Constitutional amendment passed in 1866 that made all native-born or naturalized persons U.S.citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens.The amendment hoped to provide guarantee of equality before the law for black citizens.

What was outlawed under the army's system of compulsory free labor in the South during and after the Civil War?

Why did President Johnson's quick reconstruction of ex-Confederate states shock reformers?

Match the term with the definition. -Congressional act of March 1867 that initiated military rule of the South.Congressional reconstruction divided the ten unreconstructed Confederate states into five military districts,each under the direction of a Union general.It also established the procedure by which unreconstructed states could reenter the Union.

"I have been in troble for about four yars my Dear wife was taken from me Nov 19th 1859 and left me with three Children and I being a Slave At the time Could Not do Anny thing for the poor little Children for my master it was took me Carry me some forty mile from them So I Could Not do for them and the man that they live with half feed them and half Cloth them & beat them like dogs & when I was admitted to go to see them it use to brake my heart & Now I say again I am Glad to have the honour to write to you to see if you Can Do Anny thing for me or for my poor little Children...." What aspect of slavery did this letter writer focus on?