8.1 Reconstruction

What is a primary source?

• an invalid source with no credibility.

• one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching.

• immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.

• a border state

What is a secondary source?

• an invalid source with no credibility

• one that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching

• immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.

• post Civil War times

insisted that the Confederates had committed crimes—by enslaving African Americans and by entangling the nation in war

• Democrats

• Whig Party

• Radical Republicans

The Thirteenth Amendment:

• freed African Americans from slavery, but it did not grant them the privileges of full citizenship

• Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts.

• it required that a majority of a state’s prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration begin

Advocate means to:

• disagree with a cause or policy

• withhold a signature

• publicly support a cause or policy

• give a political speech

a Veto is a

• government agency to provide services to freed slaves

• approve an official action

• right to vote

• legal power to stop an official action

The Freedmen's Bureau goal was to

• forbid any state to deny suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• provide food, clothing, health care, and education for both African American and white refugees in the South

• divide former Confederacy into military districts

• protect voting rights

President Andrew Johnson supported

• states' rights

• a centralized government

suffrage is the right to

laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers

• primary source documents

• Freedmen's Bureau

• black codes

• Civil Rights Act of 1866