To what extent is it valid to claim that Reconstruction was a failure? To what extent was it a success?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: The answers students come up with will depend largely on how they define success and failure. If Reconstruction's success is defined in terms of fundamentally remaking the South, then it was a failure. By 1877 there were no Republican governments; those who had been in power before the Civil War were, by and large, still in power. Although legally enfranchised, blacks were either not voting or were being defrauded out of their votes. Nevertheless, Reconstruction did enable long-term changes to occur. The passage of the Fourteenth and (to a lesser extent) Fifteenth amendments made the civil rights movement possible.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The election of 1816 was the last time:
A) the electoral college was used to elect a president. B) the Federalists ran a candidate. C) the Whigs ran a candidate. D) women were denied the right to vote.
Which of the following is true of the "New Left" that sprang up in the 1960s and 1970s?
A. Relatively few members of the New Left were communists. B. The New Left was generally uninterested in the Vietnam War. C. It was formed mainly by middle-aged white individuals who had been disillusioned by the Vietnam War. D. The New Left showed little interest in the plight of African Americans. E. The New Left was relatively racially diverse.
Du Bois published __________, which includes a strong critique of Booker T. Washington
a) The Souls of Black Folks b) Soul by Soul c) Soul on Ice d) Invisible Man