University:
Miami Dade College
Course:
POS2112 | State and Local Government in America
Academic year:

2022
Views:

168

Pages:

2
Author:

Amira Hester

Give Me Liberty! – Questions and Answers 1) Question: General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15: Answer: set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families. 2) Question: Anything less than ________ would betray the Civil War’s meaning, black spokesmen insisted. Answer: full citizenship 3) Question: For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant: Answer: land ownership. 4) Question: How did the Civil War affect planter families? Answer: For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor. 5) Question: What was the northern vision for the Reconstruction-era southern economy? Answer: Emancipated African-Americans would have the same opportunities for advancement as northern whites. 6) Question: The Freedmen’s Bureau: Answer: made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care. 7) Question: What did the ex-slaves see as key to improving their condition? Answer: Receiving free land. 8) Question: What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War? Answer: He returned it to the original owners. HIST-1302 9) Question: Sharecropping: Answer: was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision). 10) Question: The crop-lien system: Answer: kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.