Sharecropping and Reconstruction U.S. History A Nation Divided: Civil War and Reconstruction Sharecropping and Reconstruction Questions 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? Question #96410 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? Question #1d902 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? Question #8e2fb Question #8f3ab Question #f951c Question #b7c1f 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? A Nation Divided: Civil War and Reconstruction View all chapters Leading to the Civil War and Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation The Civil War Sharecropping and Reconstruction Prev