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Exam 1 HY 121newly freed slaves' conception of freedom after the Civil War - correct answer ✔✔freedom meant
escaping the numerous injustices of slavery and sharing the rights and opportunities of American
citizens. They wanted: ownership over land/property, the opportunity to vote and find family members.
"Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson": - correct answer ✔✔"Sherman
land" was occupied by newly freed black slaves until President Johnson decided the land should go back
to the former owners. The Petition points out that the government had encouraged them to make a life
and living on these lands but it was soon rejected and because of that most of these freed people
remained poor and without property during reconstruction. They argue that they never broke a law and
plead with the president to let them purchase a homestead.
"Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families" ads - correct answer ✔✔To find their families ads
contained where they were sold or who their last master was. This was a goal for newly freed slaves.
Reconstruction amendments - correct answer ✔✔13th- abolishment of slavery. 14th- equality. 15th- no
discrimination against race in voting. *women tried but failed to get gender added on to the 15th
amendment.
black codes (Mississippi black code) - correct answer ✔✔Attempted to regulate the lives of former black
slaves. These laws granted the freed people certain rights, such as legalized marriage, ownership of
property, and limited access to the courts. But denied them the right to testify in court cases that only
involved whites, serve on juries or in sate militias or to vote. The black codes also declared that those
who failed to sign yearly labor contracts could be arrested or hired out to white landowners.
sharecropping (A Sharecropping Contract) - correct answer ✔✔Sharecropping was a compromise
between blacks desire for independence from white control and planters desire for disciplined labor
force. It was unfair to the workers because most of them were signing contracts even though they could
not read or write. Also, labors often had to pay deductions at the end of the year and ended up not
getting payed nearly enough. Many sharecroppers never get out of debt.
women's status in society after Civil War - correct answer ✔✔They can't vote, no education, married but
can't divorce, no ownership, no right to children if husband divorces, and can't testify in courts.
, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Home Life" - correct answer ✔✔Stanton argues for women to take their own
emancipation and end the authority that men have over wives in marriage.
the diverse West - racial/ethnic groups - correct answer ✔✔not easy to make a life in the west. Native
Americans, Spanish speaking and Asian immigrants moved to the west for cheap labor. The land is not
unsettled which leads to conflicts between Native Americans.
Plains Indians/Nez Perce - correct answer ✔✔Tried to confine the tribe to reservations, they fought for
their land and lost. They didn't want to fight but they believed they weren't being treated fairly.
Chief Joseph, An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs - correct answer ✔✔Chief Joseph gives a enduring
argument about how "... no man owned any part of the earth, and a man could not sell what he did not
own." which shows how the Native Americans life is very simple. Chief Joseph also displayed in his letter
that he was not a savage from the way he talked about his tribes morals and with it you can see that it
contained the same morals that White Americans teach to their own children; such as, "that it was a
disgrace to tell a lie; that we should speak only the truth".
A Plea to Citizenize the Indian - correct answer ✔✔Pratt's speech that argues we should "kill the Indian,
but save the man" by forcing them to adapt to our culture and ways of life through boarding schools he
believes they are savages because they had been " Left in the surroundings of savagery... to possess a
savage language, superstition, and life."
Carlisle Indian boarding schools - correct answer ✔✔the removal of young Indians from their homes to
adapt to American culture.
Gilded Age - correct answer ✔✔growing divide between rich and poor. Seemed like the "golden age" but
the only people who were getting richer were the rich.
railroads - caused other businesses to boom - steel, lumber, oil, etc - correct answer ✔✔Railroads
connected the east to the west. Helped other business to boom.
Second Industrial Revolution - correct answer ✔✔during the gilded age, changes in business practices
and innovations in technology especially the railroad.
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