Describe the economic fate of freed people during and immediately following Reconstruction
What will be an ideal response?
Students should recognize that while freedom meant autonomy, it eventually would translate into poverty. Because the federal government failed to distribute land to the freed people, blacks compromised with landowners. Rather than being subjected to oversight in a wage-labor arrangement, which for many freed people bore a resemblance to slavery, freed people opted for sharecropping, which provided them with autonomy. Good students will connect this concept to the freed people's desire to come and go and to form black institutions (like churches) as indicative of this desire for self-control. Finally, students will point out that sharecropping relegated African Americans to a system that trapped them in a vicious cycle of debt and resulting poverty.
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A) There was a shift away from small-scale subsistence farming. B) Many young men and young couples migrated westward. C) Slavery expanded as a viable economic system. D) Free blacks began to suffer an erosion of the political gains made after 1776. E) All of these choices
In the Neo-Assyrian Empire,
A. all people were treated equally as slaves of the king. B. all people were treated equally as citizens of the empire. C. people in conquered lands outside of Assyria proper were permitted to live more or less independently as long as they paid modest amounts of tribute. D. local rulers of conquered people continued to hold power as vassals of Assyria. E. people who lived within Assyria proper were spared any type of taxation or tribute payments.
The election of 1828
A. saw Andrew Jackson sweep most of New England. B. saw Andrew Jackson receive the largest majority in American political history. C. was decided by the House of Representatives. D. represented to Jacksonians a victory for the forces of privilege. E. saw the emergence of a new two-party system.
The killing of over a million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1918 is an example of
A. matricide. B. genocide. C. ethnocide. D. patricide.