AAH Unit 4--slide 18

What was considered the primary goal of African Americans after the US Civil War?

• Find family members

• Obtain land

• Move North

Lack of land led to what Reconstruction labor system?

• Slavery

• Peonage Labor

• Sharecropping

Next to landownership, the freedmen most desired what?

• Education

• Equal Pay

• 40 acres and a mule

During Reconstruction, all of the following schools to educate blacks were created, EXCEPT?

• Howard University

• Allen University

• South Carolina State

What was established by Lincoln and the Radical Republicans to help poor blacks and whites?

• 40 Acres and a Mule Program

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Military Reconstruction

The Freedmen's Bureau did all of the following; EXCEPT?

• Provide loans to black farmers

• Educated blacks

• Helped feed blacks and poor whites

All of the following factors helped southern Democrats reclaim southern states; EXCEPT?

• Violence

• Free elections

• Political Corruption

How did racist attitudes of Northerners help southern Democrats?

• They focused on Northern concerns

• The started Jim Crow laws in the North

• Banned blacks from Northern Cities

What was the main impact of the Compromise of 1877?

• Tilden became president

• More federal troops sent to the South

• Reconstruction ended