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Chapter 22 Insights
ID- Educating Young Freedmen and Women (482)
Summary 1- Why was education so important to freed slaves?
OI- Freedmen Define Freedom
1) Identify one way slaves demonstrated their freedom
2) Who were the “Exodusters”?
3) Why was the church so important for Freedmen (Ex-slaves)?
ID- Excerpt P. 484 (Women from the North…)
Summary 2- What group of people enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to help blacks in the South?
OI- Freedman’s Bureau
4) What was the problem that whites realized blacks were facing with their new found freedom?
5) What was the purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau?
6) What were two reasons blacks wanted to learn to read?
7) What was one failure of the Freedman’s Bureau?
ID- Sharecroppers Picking Cotton (487)
Summary 3- Even though ex-slaves still worked for their former masters, what was a new found benefit in
their work?
Summary 4- What was the problem most ex-slaves developed working for their former masters?
OI- The Baleful Black Codes
8) What was the primary purpose of the Black Codes?
9) Identify one penalty of the Black Codes?
10) Why did many slaves slip into the status of Sharecropping?
ID- An Inflexible President (488)
Summary 5- What group of people is President Johnson denying rights and protection to?
OI- Johnson Clashes w Congress
11) Civil Rights Bill (define)
12) What was President Johnson’s response?
13) What was the Republican solution to possible repeal of Civil Rights Bill?
14) What right did the solution place on Freedmen?
ID- Military Reconstruction 1867 (491)
Summary 6- Identify what happened to the status of Southern states?
OI- Reconstruction by the Sword
15) How was the South divided by the Military Reconstruction Act
16) Identify 1 condition for a state to reapply for admission
17) What law gave blacks suffrage (right to vote)
ID- Black Reconstruction (494)
Summary7- Where will these black leaders serve their constituents (supporters)?
OI- The Realities of Radical Reconstruction in the South
18) Who were Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce?
19) What was a carpetbagger? Why were they hated by Southerners?
20) Identify an example of political corruption?
ID- The Ku Klux Klan
Summary 8- Identify an identifiable trait in the Klansman uniform?
OI- The Ku Klux Klan
21) Who would Klansmen try to pretend to be in order to scare freed blacks?
22) What was a most grotesque example of how the Klan would intimidate blacks?
23) What kind of people were attracted to the Klan?
24) What were some of the tactics used to try and prevent blacks from voting?
ID- Impeachment Drama
Summary 9- What event is this ticket for?
OI- Johnson Walks the Impeachment Plank, A Not so Guilty Verdict
25) What did Johnson do to cause Republicans in Congress to begin impeachment proceedings?
26) What was the vote in the House of Rep. to impeach Johnson?
27) After Johnson was impeached by the house, where would Johnson find himself next to see if he would
be removed from office?
28) By how many votes was Johnson saved from being impeached?
29) How many Republican Senators voted not to impeach Johnson?
30) Identify one reason Johnson was not impeached
31) Explain why impeachment would have been a “Dangerous Precedent”
ID- Alaska and the Lower 48 States
Summary- Approximately, how big is Alaska in comparison with the lower 48 states ?(use a fraction)
OI- The Purchase of Alaska
32) Who and why was Alaska sold?
33) How much did Alaska cost?
34) What was the reaction by Americans?
35) Why was the purchase of Alaska seen as a good investment?