Exam 17: Reconstructing the Union 1865-1877

Why did religion and education play such a key role in African American culture in the South during the Reconstruction era? Give examples of how both areas were important to black life.

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Question 21

What were the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment?

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Question 22

Ultimately, wartime ideals and the goals of a real Reconstruction were scuttled by a deep-seated ________ in America.

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Question 23

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

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Question 24

African Americans who held political office in southern Reconstruction governments generally

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Question 25

Why did Republicans in Congress impeach Johnson? Was this action justified?

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Question 26

Contrast the terms of Lincoln's program of Reconstruction with Johnson's program.

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Question 27

Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "redemption"?

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Question 28

The congressional Reconstruction program enacted in 1866-1867 provided for all of the following EXCEPT

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Exam 17: Reconstructing the Union 1865-1877

Why did religion and education play such a key role in African American culture in the South during the Reconstruction era? Give examples of how both areas were important to black life.

What were the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Ultimately, wartime ideals and the goals of a real Reconstruction were scuttled by a deep-seated ________ in America.

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

African Americans who held political office in southern Reconstruction governments generally

Why did Republicans in Congress impeach Johnson? Was this action justified?

Contrast the terms of Lincoln's program of Reconstruction with Johnson's program.

Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "redemption"?

The congressional Reconstruction program enacted in 1866-1867 provided for all of the following EXCEPT

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Colonization and Conflict in the North 1600-1700

The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America 1689-1768

Imperial Triumph, Imperial Crisis 1754-1776

The American People and the American Revolution 1775-1783

Crisis and Constitution 1776-1789

The Early Republic 1789-1824

The Opening of America 1815-1850

The Rise of Democracy 1824-1840

Afire With Faith 1820-1850

The Old South 1820-1860

Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue 1820-1850

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Total War and the Republic 1861-1865

The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West 1870-1890

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The Rise of an Urban Order 1870-1900

The Political System Under Strain at Home and Abroad 1877-1900

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The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order 1901-1920

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The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1939

Americas Rise to Globalism 1927-1945

Cold War America 1945-1954

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The Vietnam Era 1963-1975

The Conservative Challenge 1976-1992

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