Test Bank For A People and a Nation, Volume I to 1877 10th Edition by Mary Beth Norton

Chapter 14: Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877

Instructions:

Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study. Answer this question: What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item?

1. “Decoration Day”

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.403

2. Lincoln’s “Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction”

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.405

3. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.406

4. the Wade-Davis Bill

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.406

5. the Wade-Davis Manifesto

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.406

6. the Thirteenth Amendment

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.406

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7. the Freedmen’s Bureau

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.407

8. reunion of African American families

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.408

9. Sherman’s special Field Order Number 15

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.408

10. Freedmen’s Bureau schools

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.409

11. the founding of African American colleges

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.409

12. Francis Cardozo and P.B.S. Pinchback

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.409

13. the growth of African American churches

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.409

14. the sharecropping system

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.410

15. Cotton and the southern economy

ANSWER: Answer not provided. POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: p.401