Reconstructing America, 1865–1877

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. For Washington, the most important consideration following the Civil War was

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. In the postwar rural South, the ethic of mutuality replaced

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. Edward Porter Alexander and other Confederate military officers

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A map traces the spread of the Black population in the United States by the year 1880. The data from the map are as follows. 51 percent plus black residents, concentrated along the southeast. 26 to 50 percent black residents, concentrated along the southeast, especially Southern Florida. 11 to 25 percent of black residents concentrated in west Texas. 3 to 10 percent black residents, in Texas, Nevada, Nebraska, and Colorado. Less than 2 percent black residents, spread widely across the western, central, and northeastern states. Territories with no census data, mostly the states in the north and southwest.

According to the map titled "Black Population of the United States, 1880" (15.1), which state had the highest number of counties with a majority (51 percent and more) of black residents?

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. American abolitionists used the Morant Bay Rebellion to push for equality and political rights.

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. Confederate defeat revealed the failure not just of white supremacy but of ______________ as Southern women in particular had been forced to assume new burdens and responsibilities during the war.

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. Unlike Jamaica, which had a small number of white elites, _______ possessed a sizeable rural white population comparable to its United States counterpart.

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. Carl Schurz's report

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. The 15th Amendment addressed voting rights by

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. After the war, the Republican Party held up what group as the purest expression of civic pride?

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. What pushed Congressional Republicans to take complete control of Reconstruction?

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. Northern Democrats praised the work of the Freedmen's Bureau.

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. The illustration of African American celebration of Emancipation Day shows all of the following scenes of the new freedoms, except the right of civilians to own guns.

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. The ________ included bans on interracial marriage and blacks' access to the judicial system.

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A map of the United States in 1880 highlights the percentage of all farms rented for shares. The data from the map are as follows. Territories with less than 10 percent of all farms rented for shares: Mostly concentrated in the western and northern states. 11 to 20 percent of all farms rented for shares: Concentrated around the central and eastern states. 21 to 30 percent of all farms rented for shares: Scattered across the central states. 31 to 40 percent of all farms rented for shares: Spread in small pockets around the southern states. More than 40 percent of all farms rented for shares: Spread across the southern states with a pocket in Wyoming.

According to Map 15.3 "Sharecropping in the United States, 1880," the state of _______________ in the upper south had only three counties in which less than 10 percent of all farms were rented for shares.

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. At the heart of black communities in the postwar period stood

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. What was central to the Republican Party's economic development plan for the South?

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. What characterized carpetbaggers?

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A line chart captures the U S cotton price trend, from 1850 to 1900. The prices trend predominantly between 10 to 20 cents per pound, with the only major spike witnessed in 1863 and 1864. Price touched an unprecedented 100 cents per pound mark during this period.

According to Figure 15.1 "U.S. Cotton Prices, 1850-1900," the peak price for a pound of cotton in 1968 was barely _________________ of the wartime peak price.

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. Landowning planters continued to dominate southern agriculture through the use of the crop lien.

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. Some blacks chose to become ________ because it gave them some control over their daily work lives, while others were forced to because of a lack of land and other work options.

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. Strikes and organization by sugar workers over the conditions and terms of their employment set the stage for broader organizing by the ________.

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. What primarily shaped historians' views of Reconstruction into the 1960s?

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. The Force Acts were meant to

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. One of the major issues detracting attention from Reconstruction was

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An electoral map of U S A displays support for Tilden, a Democrat, and Hayes, a Republican. A third segment is also represented, namely no vote territories. The data from the map are as follows. States that supported Tilden: New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. States that supported Hayes: Oregon, Nevada, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. No vote territories: Washington, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Dakota Territory, and Oklahoma. The reassertion of Democratic Party rule, Virginia, 1869, North Carolina, 1870, Georgia, 1871, Texas, 1873, Arkansas, 1874, Alabama, 1874, South Carolina, 1876, and Florida, 1877.

According to Map 15.4 "1876 Presidential Election, by State" one of the Southern states to support Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was

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. At the end of Reconstruction, white Southerners saw economic development as their most important political goal.

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. Occasionally, Grant sent the army to disrupt KKK activities and capture its members

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. The ________ provided 160 acres of free land in the West to anyone who made improvements on it for five years.

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. In United States v. ___________, the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment protected citizens against only official state actions and not private violence.

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