Sharecropping and Reconstruction

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• What were said to be the provisions of the Compromise of 1877?
• When the frontier closed what effect did this have on American society?
• What is the name for the period after the Civil War when the states were brought back into the Union?
• What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
• Why did cities in the United States grow rapidly in the decades following the Civil War?
• Who invented the Pony Express?
• What were President Johnson's first official acts as president?
• Why did sharecropping begin?
• Why was the sharecropping system so hard to overcome?
• Why was sharecropping so common among the poor?
• Why did sharecropping and tenant farming prove to be unsatisfactory land arrangements?
• What was Spain's response to U.S. interest in buying Cuba?
• If you were working in a factory during the mid-1800s, would you be a striker or a strikebreaker?
• Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
• Which group received the right to vote in 1870 when the 15th Amendment was ratified?
• Whose assassination made Roosevelt President?
• How did the U.S. acquire Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
• What city did the Comstock strike grow?
• In the early years, after the Civil War, what how did former slaves earn a living?
• Who were the significant people or groups of Reconstruction and what were their goals?
• Why was Reconstruction needed for the former Confederacy?
• Why was the Florida territory so important to Spain and the United States?
• What are the three amendments passed directly after the Civil War also known as?
• In the Presidential election of 1876, who was the Republican candidate that received the most electoral votes?
• How did the transcontinental railroad transform the West?
• Why did Southerners want to secede?
• In the fifty years after the Civil War, what factors caused the most dramatic changes in American life?
• Why was Seward's purchase of Alaska viewed as a "folly" by many Americans? What changed their minds?
• Why did Americans show little interest in expanding the nation's territory and increasing international influence in the years immediately following the Civil War?
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• Who became president in the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
• What were southerners who supported Republican governments called in the South?
• What was Thomas Nast's impact on the American political system?
• How did the Homestead Act affect U.S. expansion?
• One of the provisions of the Compromise of 1877 was that government U.S. troops would be removed from the South. What did this action lead to?
• How did President Johnson's approach to Reconstruction differ from that of Radical Republicans?
• How and why did Reconstruction end?
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• Reconstruction ended predominantly for what reason?
• How did farming change in the South after the Civil War?
• In what way was Reconstruction successful?
• What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?
• Who benefited least from a sharecropping arrangement?
• Who were the scalawags?
• Why was it difficult to build new businesses in the South?
• What is one factor that limited industrial expansion in the South?
• What did the Pendleton Act do?
• What political party did most African American politicians belong to immediately after the Civil War?
• Why was education important to former slaves?
• Why did farmers oppose the gold standard?
• What ended the period of presidential reconstruction?
• After the Civil War, where did most new immigrants to U.S. come from?
• Why did the KKK originally formed?
• How did white southerners respond to radical reconstruction?
• Why was the US interested in Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines?
• By the end of Reconstruction, what means were used to disenfranchise African Americans?
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• What was the effect of the Morrill Act?
• Why was Hawaii important to America?
• What former slave asked in a speech, "What to the American slave is your 4 of July?"
• What ended Reconstruction in the South?
• What did Johnson's plan for Reconstruction require?
• Who ran against Grant in 1872 as the Liberal Republican party candidate?
• What event signaled the end of the Reconstruction project?
• What brought the beginning of Reconstruction?
• Which man was president at the end of the Reconstruction Period?
• What South Carolina city emerged as the "Textile Center of the World" in the late 19th century?
• What was the state of the Southern economy after the Civil War?
• What new opportunities were available to Africa American after Civil War?
• Why did the southern cotton industry have a hard time recovering after the Civil War?
• What did the Compromise of 1877 required federal troops to do?
• What did abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass most associate with freedom?
• Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in office?
• Why was President Andrew Johnson not removed from office when he was impeached in 1867?
• Who was the President of the United States when Reconstruction officially ended?