One of the first organizations created after the war in the South was the _____, founded in 1865 by six white Confederate soldiers
A) Freedmen's Bureau
B) Southern Cross
C) Knights of the White Camellia
D) Free Soilers Party
E) Ku Klux Klan
E
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The post-Reconstruction South was a difficult place for freed African-Americans to enter into society as new citizens. A caravan of 300 freed African-Americans known as "Exodusters" left Kentucky and settled in Nicodemus, Kansas
This town became one of the earliest African-American towns and speaks to the opportunity for diversity found in the West. Despite issues of conflict between ranchers and farmers over fencing, grass rights, and land ownership there was space to start a life built on hard work and with a minimum of social stigma. What issues compelled the "Exodusters" to travel west? What challenges might they have faced similar to others who relocated and what challenges were unique to them?
The racial beliefs of most white Americans in the last decades of the eighteenth century were characterized by their
A) greater respect for white property rights than for black American's right to personal liberty. B) confidence that slaves were docile children who would never revolt. C) growing desire for the ending of slavery by voluntary manumission. D) continuing faith that slavery was a stagnant and declining institution.
Before the presidential election of the year____, several major changes occurred including most states adopting a policy that persons did not have to own property in order to vote and also the electoral college was being almost universally elected by the people instead of by the state legislatures.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
King Philip's War resulted in
a. the lasting defeat of New England's Indians b. France's moving into Canada c. the formation of a powerful alliance among the Indians to resist the English d. the last victory for the Indians e. none of these