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Chapter 15
The Rebuilding Years (SC HISTORY)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau? | to feed, clothe, and educate former slaves |
| Which statement explains how the planters felt about the Freedmen’s Bureau? | They resented the Bureau for reminding them of their defeat in the war. |
| Which former Confederate state was the most successful in getting land to freedmen? | South Carolina |
| Why did President Abraham Lincoln want Reconstruction to be simple and easy? | He believed the southern states had never left the Union and therefore there was no need to go through a lengthy process to make them part of the United States again. |
| How did South Carolina’s Constitution of 1865 differ from the constitution it had when the state joined the Confederacy? | The governor was elected by the people. |
| What caused an increase in the number of black churches in South Carolina after the Civil War? | Blacks wanted to separate themselves socially from whites. |
| Which U.S. Constitutional amendment gave former slaves citizenship? | 14th |
| Which U.S. Constitutional amendment has been the basis for Supreme Court decisions regarding public school segregation and forced reapportionment of voter districts? | 14th |
| Why was South Carolina placed under military control? | because it refused to ratify the 14th Amendment |
| How were the carpetbaggers able to influence freed slaves in the South? | They took advantage of their inability to read and write. |
| How did the federal government’s loss of interest in Reconstruction affect South Carolina? | It ended the pressure to change the state. |
| Why did many planters lose their land during Reconstruction? | The planters could not afford to pay their taxes. |
| Which statement BEST describes sharecropping and tenant farming? | Sharecroppers owned nothing but their labor, while tenant farmers owned farm animals and equipment to use in working other people’s lands. |
| Sponsored the plan to divide the South into military districts | Thaddeus Stevens |
| First African American appointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court | Jonathan Jasper Wright |
| South Carolina governor who was described as carrying “graft and corruption to new level” | Franklin J. Moses |
| Former slave owner who agreed to pay freed slaves that stayed on his plantation | Francis W. Pickens |
| Early principal of Penn School on St. Helena Island | Laura Towne |
| A critic of the influence of the Freedmen’s Bureau | William Wells Brown |
| Succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States | Andrew Johnson |
| Elected president of the United States in a contested election in 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes |
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