Reconstruction

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Why is this picture from the Reconstruction Era
South so remarkable?
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True or False?

• Lincoln and Johnsons Reconstruction plans
  mirrored that of the radical Republicans methods
  and objectives.
• FALSE Abe and Andrew had lenient plans that
  clashed with the radicals!

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True or False?

• The Republican Party sought to CONTAIN blacks in
  the South in order to establish a nucleus of
  their party in that part of the country.
• TRUE!

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True or False?

• The Southern redeemers temporarily reinstated
  the Souths prewar political and social system,
  leading to better relations with radical
  Republicans.
• False. This actually led to a more punitive
  radical Republican!

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True or False?

• During Reconstruction, Congress passed three
  important civil rights amendments ? the 14th,
  15th and 16th.
• False. 13th, 14th and 15th
• The 13th abolished slavery.
• The 14th first intended to secure the rights of
  former slaves
• The 15th granted voting rights regardless of
  "race, color, or previous condition of
  servitude". (black males)

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True or False?

• Reactionaries regained control in the South and
  relegated former slaves to sharecropping and
  social and political subordination.
• True.

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True or False?

• A political deal between Southern Democrats and
  the Republican party ended reconstruction and
  ended the goal of civil rights for over a
  century.
• True.

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African-American's in Congress
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Slaves STILL werent free across this land
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