Unit 12 Day 3: Rebuilding the South

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The ​

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was an organization that helped freed slaves adjust to society.

The 13th Amendment ended ​

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in America.

The 14th Amendment stated that African Americans were now considered ​

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.

The 15th Amendment gave African American males the right to ​

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.

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Freedman's Bureau

slavery

citizens

vote

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The era of Reconstruction was about Southern states ​

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the Union.

Andrew Johnson agreed with Lincoln in that he wanted to be ​

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on the Southern states during the Reconstruction process.

Congress disagreed with Andrew Johnson and wanted to ​

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the Southern states for seceding from the U.S.

Congress ​

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Andrew Johnson over political differences.

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rejoining

easy

punish

impeached

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The ​

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Era was about Europeans coming to the “New World” to start a new life.

Colonists gained their freedom from Britain in the ​

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Era.

The ​

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Era was about America greatly expanding its borders.

Americans worked to improve their society during the ​

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Era.

The ​

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Era was about the North fighting against the South over slavery, state’s rights, and preserving the Union.

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Colonization

American Revolution

Westward Expansion

Reform

Civil War

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Hiram R. Revels became the first African American to serve in Congress in 1870. How did gaining political representation affect most African Americans?

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White southerners thought that all northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction wanted to

• get rich off of the South’s misfortunes.

• buy up southern land.

• control freedmen voters.

• dominate the South politically.

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What was significant about Hiram Revels’s service as a U.S. senator?

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In this cartoon, a woman representing the Solid South carries Ulysses S. Grant who is sitting atop a carpetbag. How does this cartoon show southerners’ opinion of Grant?

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Based on the information in the map, why might Hayes’s victory in the 1876 election have come as a surprise to some?

Multiple Choice

Why did many people lose faith in the Republican party?

• Its policies were costly and ineffective.

• It treated the Confederacy too leniently.

• It gave up on Reconstruction.

• It became tainted by widespread corruption.

Open Ended

Jim Crow laws made it legal to segregate nonwhites and whites in places such as this school. What impact did these laws have on the equality of educational opportunities for whites and African Americans?

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Segregation had been in place for decades when this African American man was asked by a white passenger to give up his seat on a railway car in Philadelphia. What does this image suggest about segregation in the North?

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Jim Crow laws

• legally imposed segregation.

• expanded voting rights.

• recognized freedmen as citizens.

• outlawed literacy tests.

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Workers process iron in a factory in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1890s. How did the development of factories, such as this one, help to balance opportunities for workers in the southern economy?

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Cite evidence from the charts that the southern economy diversified following the Civil War.

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes industry in the South in the late 1800s?

• It was stronger than industry in the North.

• It relied heavily on natural resources.

• It was depended heavily on resources from the North.

• Its industry was not connected to farming any more.

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Southerners viewed “Carpetbaggers” as

• Mean political leaders that forbid the practice

• A way to help the South rebuild its economy

• Kind people who came to the South to help them reconstruct buildings and houses

• People from the North who wanted to take advantage of the Southerners

Multiple Choice

Hiram Rhodes Revels is significant to American history because he

• Symbolized the end of the Civil War

• Helped grow the popularity of the Republican party in the South

• Was the first African American to serve as a member of the Senate

• Championed the rights of Hispanic Americans in state politics

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The “New South” was an emphasis to

• Accept all races as equal under the law and under God

• Create an economy based more on industry

• Get African Americans to participate in government

• Rebuild the agrarian economy the South had before the Civil War

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The Jim Crow Laws affected society in the South by

• Helping freedmen find jobs

• Creating the sharecropping system that kept African Americans from making a lot of money

• Separating African Americans from white citizens in schools and businesses

• Requiring African Americans to give the government all their earnings to receive food and housing in return