American History Pt.1

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Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment to

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provide constitutional protection for African American civil rights.

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Ex-Confederates and conservative whites across the South responded to Republican Reconstruction with all of the following except

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support for Republican governments and their new version of the South.

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In the postwar struggle for land in the South between ex-Confederates and former slaves,

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some black families in South Carolina acquired land, but ex-Confederates had most of the confiscated lands restored to them.

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Under President Andrew Johnson, high-ranking Confederate military officers could regain their property and win amnesty by

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petitioning the president personally.

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The odds were stacked against freedmen sharecroppers primarily because

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they had to borrow money to survive until their first crop came in, but the returns on cotton production were too low to pay off their debts.

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Republicans in the South were composed of a coalition of

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former Whigs, a few former Democrats, newcomers from the North, and African Americans.

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Republican policies in the South emphasized

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modernizing and democratizing southern institutions.

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Republican governments across the South fell one by one to Democrats in the mid-1870s primarily because

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ex-Confederate politicians, using terrorism, silenced the black and Republican vote.

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Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest was best known during the Civil War for commanding southern troops who committed a massacre of black Union troops at

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Fort Pillow.

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Johnson’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment succeeded in

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helping the Republicans to win an overwhelming majority in Congress.