Understanding Reconstruction: Amendments, Suffrage, and the KKK
School
Bowie High School**We aren't endorsed by this school
Course
ENGLISH 101
Subject
History
Date
Dec 9, 2024
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1
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1.What is Reconstruction?A. Reconstruction was a period after the American Civil War when the United Statesgovernment worked to rebuild the country and address the issues of slavery and civil rights. Itaimed to bring the Southern states back into the Union and ensure the rights of newly freedAfrican Americans. But the idea failed due to the new president Hayes.2.What is the difference between the Thirteenth Amendment and the EmancipationProclamation?A. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in confederacy only, not in the border states orthe North. The 13th amendment was a law passed abolishing slavery throughout the US but notin confederate states3.Why did the Fifteenth Amendment upset white feminists?A. White feminists were upset that black men were allowed to vote before white women. Theyfelt that their own fight for suffrage had been overlooked. They believed that white womenshould’ve been granted the right to vote with black men.4.What was the origin of the original Ku Klux Klan?A. The ku klux klan was founded in Pulaski Tennessee, and if you asked a kkk member whythey founded the clan they would say that it was a fraternity drinking group and for pranks. Butin reality the clan was created to resist the reconstruction policies and maintain whitesupremacy in the south and also to harass the blacks. The main goals of the clan was tosuppress the rights and freedoms of the African Americans and maintain racial segregation.
