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HY 121 Chapter 15 - ReconstructionThe - survived in the rice kingdoms of South Carolina and Georgia, while - was preferred in Louisiana's
sugar plantations. - came to dominate in the cotton and tobacco regions of Virginia and North Carolina. -
correct answer ✔✔task system; wage labor; sharecropping
an agency established by Congress in March 1865 to attempt to establish a working free labor system -
correct answer ✔✔the Freedmen's Bureau
The Ku Klux Klan used its tactics of terror on any - - who supported the Reconstruction effort, including -,
party officials, and officeholders. - correct answer ✔✔white Republicans; teachers
In 1869, - became the first state in the Union to establish woman suffrage because of the need to -. -
correct answer ✔✔Wyoming; attract settlers
The United States was the only society to experience problems with labor during the transition from
slavery to freedom. True/False - correct answer ✔✔False
The Fifteenth Amendment divided the women's movement, as some of its leaders, who were
disappointed that it didn't enfranchise woman, separated from their former antislavery allies, while
others stayed aligned with them in support of the greater cause for equal rights for all. True/False -
correct answer ✔✔True
In 1869, - - -, who opposed granting black men the right to vote when white women could not,
established the National Republicans began to face criticism from their constituencies about the cost of
Reconstruction.Woman Suffrage Association. That same year, - -, who supported the Fifteenth
Amendment, established the American Woman Suffrage Association. - correct answer ✔✔Elizabeth Cady
Stanton; Lucy Stone
Why did northern Republican support for Reconstruction diminish in the 1870s? - correct answer
✔✔Republicans began to face criticism from their constituencies about the cost of Reconstruction;
Many of the Radical Republicans who had established the Reconstruction plan had died;
, Many believed that the federal government had created the conditions of freedom, and success was
now up to blacks;
Many northerners believed that the South should be able to solve its own problems.
These were wartime Unionists who cooperated with the Republicans to prevent "rebels" from returning
to power; Southern whites supported the Republican Party and were believed to be traitors to their race
by many southern whites. - correct answer ✔✔scalawags
Their name suggests they packed all of their belongings in a suitcase and left their homes eager to take
advantage of opportunities in the South; Northern whites relocated to the South after the Civil War.
Southern whites believed they had come simply for economic gain. - correct answer ✔✔carpetbaggers
Why did former slaves believe that landownership was the cornerstone of freedom? - correct answer
✔✔They were entitled to the land because of their unpaid labor.
It allowed for the development of black communities independent of white control.
How did the Black Codes attempt to regulate the lives of former slaves? - correct answer ✔✔They did
not allow blacks to vote.
They denied blacks the right to testify in court against whites.
They prohibited blacks from serving on juries.
They denied blacks the right to serve in state militias.
Why did southerners oppose Reconstruction? - correct answer ✔✔Reconstruction governments were
corrupt.
Southern whites could not accept the idea of blacks' equality.
Poor southern whites did not experience the improvement to their economic situation as they had
hoped.
In what ways does the Sharecropping Contract limit the freedom of the laborers? - correct answer
✔✔The freedmen are required to compensate the landowner if they miss work for a day.
The freedmen are contractually obligated to "obey" the landowner.
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