Reconstruction 1865-1877: What Is Freedom?
What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877
Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15:
It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too.
With Slavery dead, which black institution strengthened after the war?
a. The free blacks’ church
b. The secret slave church
c. The back family
d. The free blacks’ schools
e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
The two maps of the Barrow Plantation demonstrate: the African-American commitment to education.
To African-Americans, Freedom meant
a. The right to travel where they wanted without a pass.
b. Owing a dog or buying liquor
c. Holding mass meetings …show more content…
without any supervision
d. Moving from the plantations to towns and cities
e. Above all- Correct
The Freedmen’s Bureau
The bureau greatest achievements were in education and health care.
The Northern vision of the Reconstruction era southern economy included all the following except the labor system would be as close to slavery as possible, thereby assuring high productivity.
Share cropping initially arose as a compromise between blacks’ desire for land and planter’s for labor discipline.
The crop-lien system kept many share croppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was based on
a. 10% of the 1860 electorate taking an oath of allegiance to the Union
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and ability to read and influence public opinion.
Johnson vetoed both (Civil Right Bill and modification to another bill) bills because he did not believe that blacks deserved the rights of citizenship.
When congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of1866, he argued that it discriminated against whites.
The Fifteenth Amendment
1. Congress approved the fifteenth Amendment in 1869
2. It provided for black suffrage
The Naturalization Act of 1790 and the Dred Scott decision both illustrate that prior to the Civil War; citizenship had been closely linked to race.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage
Association.
Black officeholders during Reconstruction helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens.
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
1. Carpetbaggers were Northerners who often held political office in the South.
2. Scalawags were white Southern Republicans.
Where did investment opportunities lure more northern investors that in the South, causing economic development to remain weak in that region? The West
The End of Reconstruction
1. The Bargain of 1877 ended Reconstruction
2. Even while it lasted, however, Reconstruction revealed some to the tensions inherent in the nineteenth-century discussion of freedom.
The Prostrate State depicts South Carolina under so-called corrupt negro rule of Reconstruction.
The Statue of Liberty
The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the: assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
The idea of the statue originated form Edouard de Loboulaye- a French educator.
Measuring over 150 feet from torch to toe, the statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
It is the tallest man made edifice in the western Hemisphere.
It is the symbol of liberty enlightening the world.
Second Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Economy
Growth of cities were vital for financing industrialization
Pittsburgh- world’s center of iron and steel manufacturing.
Which mode of transportation is usually associated with the second industrial revolution? Railroads
The American working class: lived in desperate conditions.
How is Standard Oil depicted in the magazine Puck, illustrating the company as a dangerous monopoly? An octopus
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.
Many of the wealthiest Americans consciously pursued an aristocratic lifestyle.
a. Thorstein Veblen on conspicuous consumption – spending money not on needs but to demonstrate the wealth.
b. An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by conspicuous consumption is: Mrs. Bradley Martin’s costume ball.
The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was: dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.
After the Civil War, which became symbols of a life of freedom on the open range? Cowboys
Chief Joseph: wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.
The Dawes Act
The crucial step in attacking tribalism came in 1887 with the passage of the Dawes Act.
a. The policy proved to be at a disaster for the Indians.
b. The Dawes Act: divided tribal lands into parcels of land for Indian families.
The Ghost Dance: was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.
Corruption was at the national level too.
a. Crédit Mobilier
b. The era from 1870 to 1890 was known as the: Gilded Age.
c. William Tweed was a political boss who, although corrupt, provided important services to New Yorkers.
The Civil Service Act of 1883: created a merit system for federal employees.
Republican economic policies strongly favored: eastern industrialists and bankers.
The theory of Social Darwinism argued that: the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor.
Which statement about labor and the law is false? Workers generally welcomed the Court’s decisions on industry.
The Knights of Labor: was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.
Henry George argued in Progress and Poverty that poverty sprang from: a denial of justice.
In the late 19th century, social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Lawrence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of: class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.
Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is false? Laborers were gathered at Haymarket Square to demonstrate for an eight-hour day.
Labor and Politics
Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886 on a labor ticket.
Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15:
It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too.
With Slavery dead, which black institution strengthened after the war?
a. The free blacks’ church
b. The secret slave church
c. The back family
d. The free blacks’ schools
e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
The two maps of the Barrow Plantation demonstrate: the African-American commitment to education.
To African-Americans, Freedom meant
a. The right to travel where they wanted without a pass.
b. Owing a dog or buying liquor
c. Holding mass meetings …show more content…
without any supervision
d. Moving from the plantations to towns and cities
e. Above all- Correct
The Freedmen’s Bureau
The bureau greatest achievements were in education and health care.
The Northern vision of the Reconstruction era southern economy included all the following except the labor system would be as close to slavery as possible, thereby assuring high productivity.
Share cropping initially arose as a compromise between blacks’ desire for land and planter’s for labor discipline.
The crop-lien system kept many share croppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was based on
a. 10% of the 1860 electorate taking an oath of allegiance to the Union
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and ability to read and influence public opinion.
Johnson vetoed both (Civil Right Bill and modification to another bill) bills because he did not believe that blacks deserved the rights of citizenship.
When congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of1866, he argued that it discriminated against whites.
The Fifteenth Amendment
1. Congress approved the fifteenth Amendment in 1869
2. It provided for black suffrage
The Naturalization Act of 1790 and the Dred Scott decision both illustrate that prior to the Civil War; citizenship had been closely linked to race.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage
Association.
Black officeholders during Reconstruction helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens.
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
1. Carpetbaggers were Northerners who often held political office in the South.
2. Scalawags were white Southern Republicans.
Where did investment opportunities lure more northern investors that in the South, causing economic development to remain weak in that region? The West
The End of Reconstruction
1. The Bargain of 1877 ended Reconstruction
2. Even while it lasted, however, Reconstruction revealed some to the tensions inherent in the nineteenth-century discussion of freedom.
The Prostrate State depicts South Carolina under so-called corrupt negro rule of Reconstruction.
The Statue of Liberty
The idea for the Statue of Liberty originated as a response to the: assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
The idea of the statue originated form Edouard de Loboulaye- a French educator.
Measuring over 150 feet from torch to toe, the statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
It is the tallest man made edifice in the western Hemisphere.
It is the symbol of liberty enlightening the world.
Second Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Economy
Growth of cities were vital for financing industrialization
Pittsburgh- world’s center of iron and steel manufacturing.
Which mode of transportation is usually associated with the second industrial revolution? Railroads
The American working class: lived in desperate conditions.
How is Standard Oil depicted in the magazine Puck, illustrating the company as a dangerous monopoly? An octopus
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller: built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.
Many of the wealthiest Americans consciously pursued an aristocratic lifestyle.
a. Thorstein Veblen on conspicuous consumption – spending money not on needs but to demonstrate the wealth.
b. An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by conspicuous consumption is: Mrs. Bradley Martin’s costume ball.
The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was: dramatic as an agricultural empire grew.
After the Civil War, which became symbols of a life of freedom on the open range? Cowboys
Chief Joseph: wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.
The Dawes Act
The crucial step in attacking tribalism came in 1887 with the passage of the Dawes Act.
a. The policy proved to be at a disaster for the Indians.
b. The Dawes Act: divided tribal lands into parcels of land for Indian families.
The Ghost Dance: was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.
Corruption was at the national level too.
a. Crédit Mobilier
b. The era from 1870 to 1890 was known as the: Gilded Age.
c. William Tweed was a political boss who, although corrupt, provided important services to New Yorkers.
The Civil Service Act of 1883: created a merit system for federal employees.
Republican economic policies strongly favored: eastern industrialists and bankers.
The theory of Social Darwinism argued that: the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor.
Which statement about labor and the law is false? Workers generally welcomed the Court’s decisions on industry.
The Knights of Labor: was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.
Henry George argued in Progress and Poverty that poverty sprang from: a denial of justice.
In the late 19th century, social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Lawrence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of: class warfare and the growing power of concentrated capital.
Which statement about the Haymarket Affair is false? Laborers were gathered at Haymarket Square to demonstrate for an eight-hour day.
Labor and Politics
Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886 on a labor ticket.