military came people to help run the occupied states and teachers who wanted to educate African-Americans. These people were called carpetbaggers by hostile southern whites. Southerners that worked with carpetbaggers were called scalawags‚ In time scalawags became known as "white trash." Over 1‚000 schools were built‚ teacher-training institutions were created‚ and several black colleges were founded and some were financed with the help of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Freedmen’s Bureau
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Appomattox Courthouse Battle of Antietam Freedman’s Bureau | |Border states Siege of Vicksburg Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant | |Scalawags carpetbaggers Robert E. Lee Sharecropping | 1._____________ Bloodiest single-day battle in United States history. 2._____________ An important federal outpost
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The old ruling aristocracy believed that they were born to govern‚ without question‚ not only their slaves but the white people too. The local people who supported the Republican Party and what they were trying to accomplish were known as scalawags. Scalawags and carpetbaggers were the names given to those by the white people in the South that wanted to keep running things their way. They did not want things to change. They had a lot of power and control not wanting anything to happen to it.
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Chapter 15 and 16 Chapter 15 Wade Davis Bill- Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill in 1864 as a substitute for Lincoln’s ten percent plan. It required a majority of voters in a southern state to take a loyalty oath in order to begin the process of Reconstruction and guarantee black equality Freedman’s Bureau- created by Congress in 1865‚ early welfare agency providing food‚ shelter‚ and medical aid for those made destitute by the war‚ Both blacks‚ chiefly freed slaves‚ and homeless whites
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What Is Freedom? Reconstruction 1865-1877 Four days after the meeting Sherman issued Special Field Order 15: It set aside Sea Island and a large area on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts for the settlement of the black families on 40 acre plots of land. He offered them broken mule too. With Slavery dead‚ which black institution strengthened after the war? a. The free blacks’ church b. The secret slave church c. The back family d. The free blacks’ schools e. ALL OF THE ABOVE- Correct
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Chapter 16 Outline part 1 The federal government in 1865 faced unprecedented questions: how could the Union be restored and the defeated south reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves? Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868) National politics produced new constitutional amendments‚ a presidential impeachment‚ and
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Do you ever wonder who killed Reconstruction? Well many believe the North killed Reconstruction for a variety of reasons‚ but the three main reasons are the North’s racism‚ fatigue‚ and distractions. Some positives about Reconstruction were the Freedman’s Bureau‚ This gave the African Americans support like food‚ education‚ jobs‚ and legal help. Also there was the Civil Rights Act this gave the blacks and whites the same type of rights. But there was also some negatives around this time like Sharecropping
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The Reconstruction Era Must be submitted no later than Februaruy 3‚ 2010 Reconstruction appeared to be a program to aid in the assimilation of the freed blacks into the American social and economic system. The Radical Republicans in Congress had a different goal. Read Chapter 16 and write an essay describing the plans of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson and how they differed from the plans of Congress. Put special emphasis on the impact of the 14th Amendment and what it attempted to reverse.
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and forget about the condition of being a slave.(Document D). Not only did the North contribute to the death of reconstruction‚ so did the South. The Ku Klux Klan terrorized people who were black and supported the radicals‚ carpetbaggers and scalawags‚ and Republicans. They Klansmen were made up of first-class men‚ doctors‚ lawyers and some farmers.(Document B). The K.K.K. repulsively murdered John W. Stephens and hung him in the Grand Jury room of the Court House.(Document A). Another example
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In easeful-death I roamed; a soul lost to Damnation‚ doomed to roast in Purgatory forever and ever. I knew that dead was what I was and that Purgatory was where I was‚ because my father would always yell‚ ‘Damn your soul to Purgatory’ when he was mad at someone‚ and he was mad at me. The fear of his wrath was what had always kept me in line‚ but not this time; this time‚ I was willfully disobedient. Many a time he warned me that if he ever caught me fraternizing with those heathens in Tidewater Bayou
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