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?
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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Roman occupation of England began during the reign of the emperor
A) Claudius. B) Tiberius. C) Vespasian. D) Augustus. E) Nero.
A business in which no worker would be required to join a union was referred to as a(n) ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What best describes Hitler's book, Mein Kampf?
a. It depicted Hitler's plan to take power through a massive rebellion. b. It set forth Hitler's ideology of Aryan supremacy and anti-Semitism. c. It excluded any trace of Hitler's anti-Semitism. d. It was immediately seen by German politicians as the dangerous work of a madman. e. It immediately became a best-seller throughout Europe including the Soviet Union.
Which of the following were causes of the French Revolution?
a. The example of the American Revolution b. Government debt incurred by helping the American revolutionaries c. Louis XVI's callous policies d. Resentment towards Marie Antoinetter e. All of these choices