RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Control politics
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Stop violence against African Americans
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Take advantage of southern economic conditions
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They became wealthy landowners, hiring freedmen and white Southerners to do the labor through the development of sharecropping. Carpetbaggers also established banks and retail businesses.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the Reconstruction era progressed, antipathy for these “carpetbaggers” swelled and intensified among white Southerners, who increasingly saw them as interlopers who failed to understand the relationship between blacks and whites in the region.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term carpetbagger was used by opponents of Reconstruction-the period from 1865 to 1877 when the Southern states that seceded were reorganized as part of the Union-to describe Northerners who moved to the South after the war, supposedly in an effort to get rich or acquire political power.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the period of Reconstruction, many northerners moved to the south and were called Carpetbaggers. Carpetbaggers packed all of their belongings into a bag and moved south. Carpetbaggers were initially welcomed by southerners because northern money was needed in southern states to help rebuild.