Reconstruction 1865-1877: What Is Freedom?
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
The two maps of the Barrow Plantation demonstrate: the African-American commitment to education.
To African-Americans, Freedom meant
a. The right to travel where they wanted without a pass.
b. Owing a dog or buying liquor
c. Holding mass meetings …show more content…
Share cropping initially arose as a compromise between blacks’ desire for land and planter’s for labor discipline.
The crop-lien system kept many share croppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was based on
a. 10% of the 1860 electorate taking an oath of allegiance to the Union
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and ability to read and influence public opinion.
Johnson vetoed both (Civil Right Bill and modification to another bill) bills because he did not believe that blacks deserved the rights of citizenship.
When congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of1866, he argued that it discriminated against whites.
The Fifteenth Amendment
1. Congress approved the fifteenth Amendment in 1869
2. It provided for black suffrage
The Naturalization Act of 1790 and the Dred Scott decision both illustrate that prior to the Civil War; citizenship had been closely linked to race.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage
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
The two maps of the Barrow Plantation demonstrate: the African-American commitment to education.
To African-Americans, Freedom meant
a. The right to travel where they wanted without a pass.
b. Owing a dog or buying liquor
c. Holding mass meetings …show more content…
Share cropping initially arose as a compromise between blacks’ desire for land and planter’s for labor discipline.
The crop-lien system kept many share croppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was based on
a. 10% of the 1860 electorate taking an oath of allegiance to the Union
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and ability to read and influence public opinion.
Johnson vetoed both (Civil Right Bill and modification to another bill) bills because he did not believe that blacks deserved the rights of citizenship.
When congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of1866, he argued that it discriminated against whites.
The Fifteenth Amendment
1. Congress approved the fifteenth Amendment in 1869
2. It provided for black suffrage
The Naturalization Act of 1790 and the Dred Scott decision both illustrate that prior to the Civil War; citizenship had been closely linked to race.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage