F. Be able to explain how the end of slavery, the ending of the Civil War and the Reconstruction
put an end to slavery yet still left unresolved questions and debates on the role of the federal
government v the states, separation of powers/checks and balances, and stuff limited and largely
unchanged social, political, and economic patterns especially for freed Blacks,
24. Looking at the image above, how was this economic system an extension in some ways to slavery
Reconstruction
25. Explain the significance of the period from 1865-1877.
Reconstruction
26. Referring to the list above, how was this post Civil War legislation a demonstration of a strong central
government?
27. How did President Andrew Johnson help to undermine the goals of the Republicans who wanted a
strong central government to reunity the country?
28. Explain how President Andrew Johnson's impeachment, although it failed, was a demonstration of
separation of powers/checks and balances.
29. The following are ways in which the economic and political patterns especially in the South still
remained unchanged even after the Civil War.
30. Comparing the quotes above, what can you infer about the various perspectives on the state of Black
freedmen after the Civil War?
G. Be able to discuss the new Constitutional legislation during the Reconstruction and its successes
as well as its limitations and failures concerning non-Whites and women.
31. What would be the best interpretation of the political cartoon above?
32. According to the excerpt above, how was the ruling in U. S. v Cruikshank a crucial setback for the
Reconstruction?
33. How could the Civil Rights Act of 1875 be both a success of the Reconstruction yet also a failure?
Ganted African Americans cover treatment but it was declared inconstidutead in Civil Rights Cases (1983)
34. The list above is evidence that
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36. Tactics such as these listed in the excerpts above were often used as a means to
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37. Looking at the picture above, how would this explain the radical Southern resistance to the
Reconstruction?
38. According to the excerpts above, what was most disturbing about the Republican governments and
administration that controlled the South during the Reconstruction?
39. What role did the concept of Social Darwinism play during the Gilded/Progressive era?
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