Politics
He represented South Carolina, a major state of the Confederacy.
Who is Joseph Hayne Rainey?
The Black institution founded by an act of Congress in 1867 and named for the General Oliver Otis Howard of the Freedman’s Bureau.
What is Howard University?
For the first time, the federal government _____ Black workers as free laborers, and they began to intervene in labor relations.
A. ignored
B. dismissed
C. banned
D. recognized
What is D. recognized?
This artifact depicts a black man who sits alone in a room, against a blue jacket, reading his Bible.
What is The Lord Is My Shepherd?
(Refer to Religion / Community Artifact #1)
These schools _____ African American rights by giving thousands access to literacy.
A. advanced
B. hindered
C. restricted
D. demolished
What is A. advanced?
The longest serving Black congressman in the Reconstruction era.
Who is Joseph Haine Rainey?
This choral group was formed in 1871 and aimed to raise money for their school.
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
This labor contract from the ____ agency reveals the complicated reality of freedom for formerly enslaved African Americans during Reconstruction.
A. Labor Contract Society
B. Freedmen's Bureau
C. Reconstruction
D. Must Have Freedmen Congress
What is B. Freedmen's Bureau?
In 1937, this group of men clad in white robes with pointy hats, gathered around a burning cross as an intimidation tactic against all who were considered un-American: Jewish people and especially, African Americans.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
______’s founding was part of a broader national effort to provide land and education for the freedman.
The cartoon displays, simply, a vision for the future of America that was beginning to come true during Reconstruction.
What is Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner (Politics Artifact #2)?
This agency set up schoolrooms to help formerly enslaved people become self sufficient.
What is the Freedman Bureau?
This image symbolizes political participation in the Southern and border states, where freedpeople used voting to protect their labor and economic interests.
What is The First Vote (1867) or The Two Platforms (1866)?
While it is a horrific sight that speaks to an overlooked, ugly part of American history, this artifact displays just how much religion meant to Black Americans.
What is the KKK Cross Burning?
(Refer to Religion / Community Artifact #2)
These contracts helped mark a step toward broader labor and civil rights, which ultimately showed that Reconstruction marked real ____ progression through this contract.
A. downward
B. upward
What is B. upward?
This convention is an excellent example of the kind of progress that was being fought for in the Reconstruction.
What is the Colored National Convention? (Refer to Politics Artifact #3)
African Americans usually were given ____ vocational training.
A. too much
B. the perfect amount of
C. enough
D. limited
What is D. limited?
Refer to Politics Artifact #2.
This cartoon shows ____ towards political equality in the future.
A. reluctance
B. optimism
C. outrage
D. neutrality
What is B. optimism?
This is a good example of how printed journals and newspapers spread the reconstruction, and of its successes.
What is the Colored National Convention?
These singers performed for President Ulysses S. Grant at the White House in 1872. They later sang for Queen Victoria during their first European tour.
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
Joseph Hayne Rainey's election signaled a major shift towards political _____ in the Reconstruction Era.
What is equality?