RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A focused effort to provide equality for women and free blacks
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A commitment to white supremacy and segregation between the races
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A commitment to help freedmen find success as they acclimated to their new life.
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A concerted effort to reenter the United States and take responsibility for their actions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Redeemers were a political group established in the American South in the 1870s. Their goal was to “redeem” the South by removing Republicans from power and restoring white supremacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -In practice, the term carpetbagger was often applied to any Northerners who were present in the South during the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877).
Detailed explanation-3: -After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South. Sharecropping and tenant farming were systems in which white landlords (often former plantation slaveowners) entered into contracts with impoverished farm laborers to work their lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy. Their policy of Redemption was intended to oust the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, “carpetbaggers", and “scalawags".