Exam 17: Reconstructing the Union 1865-1877

Some northerners wished to provide for a distribution of southern lands to former slaves. Describe that plan and the fate it met. Do you think Reconstruction might have had a chance of succeeding without some form of land redistribution? Why or why not?

The southern governments, as initially reconstituted after the war, alarmed northern public opinion because

Consider this statement: "The persistence of racism, in both the North and the South, lay at the heart of Reconstruction's failure."Agree or disagree, and explain why.

What were the advantages and disadvantages of sharecropping to black laborers? To white landowners?

Explain why four of the following issues were important to freed people after the Civil War: marriage, family, names, travel, labor contracts, and work done by women and children.

The North interpreted black codes as

The Freedmen's Bureau

Explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. How was the act of impeachment legal? How was it illegal?

Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided conviction on impeachment charges because

Who won the disputed election of 1876?

The economic system whereby a farmer rents the land by paying not with cash but with a fraction (often half) of the harvest is known as ________.

For southern whites, the old idea of ________ in master-slave relationships was replaced by ________.

What is true about southern economic redevelopment?

What were the black codes? What role did they play in the early stages of Reconstruction?

The Radical Republicans in Congress approached Reconstruction with the conviction that

________ finally won the 1876 election after an electoral commission awarded him all of the disputed electoral votes from three southern states.

The central issue that divided Johnson and congressional Radicals was

Under new president Andrew Johnson, presidential Reconstruction

List three major achievements of the radical governments in the South. Which do you think was the most important, and why?

In the years after the Civil War, many freedmen ended up working as