Some of these people were northerners who came to the south after the war ended. Their opponents called them "carpetbaggers‚" this implied that they packed their things in a suitcase to move quickly to the South in order to gain the benefits of being in office. Most carpetbaggers were Union army veterans that decided to stay in the South when the war was over. Others were teachers‚ investors in railroads and land that sought economic opportunity
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gave black Americans citizenship and the 15th amendment had made it illegal to deny someone the right to vote based on race. To enforce these new laws‚ northerners went south to help Freedmen and Reconstruction; these people are also known as carpetbaggers. Many people resisted in the South‚ so it was difficult to carry out the new ideas of Reconstruction. Rebuilding the United States was not an easy task because it soon ended in 1877. Reconstruction is the process of rebuilding or reorganizing of
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was one of their top priorities. With the military came people to help run the occupied states and teachers who wanted to educate African-Americans. These people were called carpetbaggers by hostile southern whites. Southerners that worked with carpetbaggers were called scalawags‚ In time scalawags became known as "white trash." Over 1‚000 schools were built‚ teacher-training institutions were created‚ and several black colleges were founded and some were financed with the help
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problems which the United States faced. Many often think of the United States as peaceful after the Civil War was over‚ but this is far from the truth. Hyde shows how evident it was that unity of this nation was far from being reached. The carpetbaggers were northerners who supposedly carried all their belongings in a satchel made of carpet material as they came south to exploit the defeated region of the South. The white Southerners gave them this degrading name to them because they wanted to
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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
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Courthouse Battle of Antietam Freedman’s Bureau | |Border states Siege of Vicksburg Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant | |Scalawags carpetbaggers Robert E. Lee Sharecropping | 1._____________ Bloodiest single-day battle in United States history. 2._____________ An important federal outpost in South Carolina
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Chapter 16 Outline part 1 The federal government in 1865 faced unprecedented questions: how could the Union be restored and the defeated south reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves? Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868) National politics produced new constitutional amendments‚ a presidential impeachment‚ and
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violent acts like attacking them and burning their homes. They were racists to African Americans in the south‚ and north also. Although the KKK is most known for their racist behavior towards African Americans‚ they also discriminate against carpetbaggers‚ scalawags‚ Jews‚ Catholics‚ Republicans‚ and homosexuals. Another failure of the Reconstruction was the raising of taxes in order to rebuild the south. The raising of taxes also led to more poverty‚ although not the only thing that led to poverty.
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to become a judge in North Carolina and help reconstruct the state. He describes a state Senator who was brutally killed by the Klu Klux Klan and hung on a hook in the jury room. (Doc‚ A letter) That kind of terrorism was trying to scare the Carpetbaggers of the Klu Klux Klan and trying to make them want to leave the North. It was also suppose to scare
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was a war hero?? Run for office and most likely win. Women’s suffrage : homestead act. Women that moved out west were more independent with the farms‚ were widows b/c their husbands died. More independent women in the west. Carpetbaggers and scalawags: Carpetbaggers: entreps from the north. Sc: southerners who believe in northern stuff. A lot of free open land‚ start businesses Go down
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