Chapter 16 Review Questions Flashcards
What laws and amendments were passed by Congress in its effort to extend the parameters of democracy during Reconstruction?
14th and 15th amendments
Enforcement act of 1870
KKK Act of 1871
Do you think white Southerners should have supported black people’s aspirations for civil rights, land, and suffrage? How differently would things had turned out if they had? In what ways did Southerners and Northerners differ in expressing their memories of the Civil War?
Yes. But it was the popular opinion, in the north as well, that black people were inferior and didn’t deserve the same rights as white people. Though slavery was abolished it didn’t make black people equals.
What accomplishments did the Freedmen’s Bureau make during Reconstruction? What gains did black people achieve during Reconstruction? What were the setbacks? Describe the characteristics that define the sharecropping system.
-Greatest success was the 3000 schools established in the south. Blacks gained education.
W.E.B. Dubois stated that Reconstruction was a time in which “the slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.”1 What historical evidence supports Dubois’s thesis?
black codes, Slaughterhouse cases, US v. Cruikshank, Compromise of 1877, end of reconstruction
What factors accounted for the rise of the Republican Party in the South, and then the reemergence of the Democratic Party as the dominant power in the South?
scalawags and carpetbaggers, the counter-reconstruction was bad. KKK, president Hayes and President Hayes’ Compromise of 1877 gave democratic power to the states in the south.
Many historians feel that both the promise and disappointment of Reconstruction provided the foundation for the next one hundred years of race relations in the South. In what ways is this idea true?
It laid foundation of what needs to be done to achieve equality but also revoked the necessary rights. It was 2 steps forward and 1.5 steps back. 14th and 15th amendments.
