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shenderson6

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Question 1

To what extent was Reconstruction a success? To what extent was it a failure?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Identify and explain the attitude toward Reconstruction expressed by the following presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses Grant.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

According to the Past and Present video in section 15.6, the phrase forty acres and a mule refers to freedmens expectations of __________ equality during Reconstruction.
 
  A) political
  B) economic
  C) social
  D) cultural

Question 4

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 15.6, which of the following provisions is found in the Fourteenth Amendment?
 
  A) forty acres and a mule
  B) amnesty for the South
  C) equal protection
  D) birthright citizenship

Question 5

According to the Arguing History video in section 15.6, who were barred from holding federal office during Reconstruction?
 
  A) Confederate leaders
  B) African Americans
  C) Radical Republicans
  D) Southern Democrats

Question 6

What term refers to the restoration of white Democrats to power in the Southern states?
 
  A) Peace Policy
  B) Reconstruction
  C) Redemption
  D) emancipation



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Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. The success of Reconstruction owes much to the efforts of Radical Republicans.
b. The Thirteenth Amendment officially abolished slavery.
c. The Fourteenth Amendment made birthright the basis of citizenship, thereby extending citizenship to African Americans.
d. The Fifteenth Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
e. The failure of Reconstruction owes much to the efforts of white Southern Democrats to restore the prewar order.
f. In what Southerners called Redemption, the South regained political control of their state governments.

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. Lincolns message in his second inaugural speech expressed his attitude toward Reconstruction: With malice toward none, with charity for all.
b. Lincoln called for an end to hatred and strife and a focus on healing and peace.
c. Andrew Johnson expressed his attitude toward Reconstruction with the statement, Treason must be made odious, and traitors must be punished and impoverished.
d. His actions, however, contrasted with his words because he granted amnesty to many Southern leaders and facilitated the return of Southern delegates to Congress.
e. Ulysses Grant accepted his nomination with the statement, Let us have peace.
f. However, he reacted to the violence of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina as if it were waging war against the U.S. government.

Answer 3

Answer: B

Answer 4

Answer: C

Answer 5

Answer: A

Answer 6

Answer: C




shenderson6

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Reply 2 on: Sep 21, 2019
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


xiazhe

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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