RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The United States Congressman who kept slaves after the Civil War
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Father of the African American exodus
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A man who owned a peanut farm
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A librarian who helped women learn how to sew
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a carpenter in Nashville during the turbulent Reconstruction era, he’d built coffins for Black victims of racial violence and witnessed Black men dragged from their homes by white mobs.
Detailed explanation-2: -Kansas Historical Society This pamphlet, sold by Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, the “Father of the Exodus, ” includes the lyrics for two songs advertising black Southerners’ emigration to Kansas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was a Black American entrepreneur, North American 19th-century anti-enslavement activist, and community leader. Most notably, Singleton was instrumental in urging Black Americans to leave the South and live on settlements in Kansas. These people were known as Exodusters.
Detailed explanation-4: -Benjamin “Pap” Singleton was a former bondsman who, later in his life, became known for leading African American migrations from the post-Reconstruction South into Kansas.
Detailed explanation-5: -Singleton advocated the organized colonization of blacks in communities in Kansas and testified about the “Exodusters” before a committee of the U.S. Congress in 1880. A second wave of nearly 20, 000 African Americans came to Kansas in 1879 and 1880.