(Chapter 16)The freedmen's Bureau was:
A group of black men going around to help freed slaves
A group of individuals not commissioned by the government to settle disputes between freed people and southern whites.
A government commissioned group that settled disputes between blacks.
A group commisoned by the governement to settle disputes between freed people and southern whites
Reconstruction is the Period in America's History(1865-1877)where the republican party freed slaves and tried to develop American society based on equal rights and free labour.
Freedom to African Americans meant:
Having the ability to vote freely and appoint there own leaders.
Having land (That 40 acres and a mule ya know!!!!).
Having a church to go to and have religious gatherings.
Economic freedom to chose where they want to work.
Following Black codes
(Film questions FCQ1) Male and female slaves did all of the same work ?
(Film questions FCQ1) Who picked bugs off of the cotton plants?
Children
Men and women only
Men
Women
(Film questions FCQ1) Tick all jobs the slaves did according to lecture and film videos
Play basket ball...... ^_^
They chopped down trees both men and women
They worked in the fields
They worked in the river
Black Smiths
Prostituted
Carpenters
Servants
Breast feed planters offspring when planter's white could not produce milk
(Film questions FCQ1) Slaves worked as much as they could as long as their white masters gave them:
Some time to plant there own crops after work
Eating ground provisions from the planter's house
The time to bury loved ones
Time to Gather together (Dance and Sing)
(Film questions FCQ1) Blacks defied slavery by doing the following ..
shared folk tales and dances with the younger slaves to defy the planter.
creating African american family
Creating African american community
Out thinking the Planters
Drawing works of art using the pulp inside cotton
(Film questions FCQ1) The family is the most important institution during slavery for the African Americans
Lincoln first described the civil war as a means to ,
Save the slaves and the union because he felt that America would be vulnerable to foreign attack
Save the union because he felt that America would be vulnerable to foreign attack
Free all slaves because it was not the American ideal to dehumanize another man
To break up America so it would be vulnerable to foreign attack
They(the blacks who joined the union forces) were not paid equal wages as white military soldiers and there rank in the military was restricted soley based on the fact they were black. Which of the following did the blacks do in response to this unfair treatment? restricted rank.
Some units out right refused to be paid less than white units
Black Units refused to fight in battle and hide
Black units worked to changed the policies against black officers
Book outline Question 4
What brought reconstruction to an end
The north got bored so they left the south alone
The agreement between the then democrats and the then republicans to move troops out of the south which weakened the Reconstruction focus to a stop finally.
The north was facing a depression and so had to change there focus from the reconstruction
Reconstruction did not completely succeed even though reconstruction allowed blacks to enter politics,own small parcels of land,have families,schools and education because:
Blacks were treated as third class citizens never really having the power to fairly negotiate situations. For example being paid less for being a black solider.While white soldiers were being fully paid.
Black codes which basically told blacks how to operate around whites took away their new found liberties.
14th Amendment - "(Basically a person becomes a citizen of the USA if they are born in areas in the USA's jurisdiction and they get benefits like: Not being deprived of life and liberty without due process of the law.
When was the 14th Amendment passed and ratified respectively?
It was passed in 1866 and ratified in 1868
It was passed in 1866 and ratified in 1867
It was passed in 1865 and ratified in 1868
It was passed in 1866 and ratified in 1860
FCQ2 (The back bone of American Economy) What was the relationship between the consumer culture, wages, and manhood?
When building manhood there needs to be something that society sees as the standard of masculinity in order for a male to gain his manhood he would have to reach that standard.
Being able to provide for your family in a consumer culture only.
In order for consumer culture to exist there must be a high demand for created products and therefore wages had to be increased. Since wages had to be increased, the ability to afford these cosumer products for ones family would be a sign of manhood.
Which of these were not the living conditions of poor immigrants in major cities? (In the tenements)
It was luxurious
There was always room for immigrant family members to stay comfortably
Up to 8 children sometimes slept in one bed
The mother and father sometimes slept in the same room as there children
The floor was made of 14 carat diamond lined with platinum
There were sometimes just two windows
How did political bosses gain power? By tending to the needs of the incoming immigrants and when time for voting came around bosses whether directly or indirectly asked for the votes of the immigrants to get elected.
What were the conditions of workers in industrial America?
Physically demanding (Sometimes One had to endure long hours of working uncomfortably)
Health harzard
Exploitation by employers
Sometimes wage cuts
Helpless for immigrants because they did not have money in the first place and this was the main way in which they would have to make money doing jobs that was not generally good for health.
What did freedom mean for slave holders?
It meant : 1) They would be pestered by the freemen's bureau 2) Start to pay slaves now and 3) Free to some time beat slaves 4) Some would have to share some land with the blacks they held
Which one of these schools is not a famous African american college?
Stanford University
Hampton institute in Virginia
Fisk University in Tennessee
Howard University in Washington DC
Black universities were made immediately after the civil war.
Label the following persons
Which states were not counted in favour of Hayes?
Texas,New York,Philadelphia
Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina
Chicago,Colorado and New Mexico
Label the correct definition to there term: Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Which of the following is when other company's allow another company's boss to run a group of companies?
Trust
Pool
Merger
Hanging CEO
(Exam review term) Which of the following is when companies come together to control prices of goods to run other companies out of business?
Free Idoelogy -Is basically the system that working gives economic freedom. (Could be applied to the former slaves and sharecropping being paid wages for labour.)
What time was the wade Davis bill Proposed and what did it say?
1864 - The majority(White men) in each individual southern state most want to pledge allegiance to the union for re-admittance.
1865 -The majority(White men) in each individual southern state most want to pledge allegiance to the union for re-admittance.
1863-All White men in each individual southern state most want to pledge allegiance to the union for re-admittance.
1866-All White men in each individual southern state most want to pledge allegiance to the union for re-admittance.
1865- All White men in each individual southern state most want to pledge allegiance to the union for re-admittance.
1864 - All White men in each individual southern state most want to pledge allegiance to the union for re-admittance.
After the civil war a new system was created that changed the relationship between the planters and the blacks.What was it called...................
Civil RIGHTS ACT was passed in the year and then vetod by President Andrew Johnson.
What did the civil rights bill entail that Andrew Johnson vetoed?
All men should have the right to vote
It gave blacks the chance to vote
It was like the 14th amendment thats all
Reconstruction ACT 1867 - Divides southern states into 5 military districts along with making new state governments and lets black vote.
Reconstruction ACT was passed in
The allowed Black men to vote in 1870
Andrew Johnson was impeached
in 1867
in 1868
in 1869
What is another name for Proletariat class
The working class
The working black men
The working class american
1870 - 1920 almost 11 million Americans moved from rural to urban
Label the following with the person associated with them
Frances Willard was a woman that thought first established that alcoholism was a disease.
Who said "Poverty leads to excessive alcohol consumption?"
Frances Willard
Susan B Anthony
what year did the Harrison-McKinley Tariff Protect domestic products from foreign product competition
1890
1855
1500
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