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Historiography Quiz: Reconstruction and Conquest of the West.

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Reconstruction Era
The time after the Civil War between 1865 and 1877 when the institutions and infrastructure of the South were rebuilt.
This historical assessment was written because the author may have lived through reconstruction and personally experienced its affects.
Historian A ;written in 1907/1937
The Black Codes gave specific rights to blacks and were a straightforward attempt to bring order out of the chaos.
Historian A ; Black Codes
Freedmen could not be equal socially, morally, and intellectually with whites so were accordingly separated by law. Negros were justifiably stripped of rights such as, to bear arms testify in court, and keeping labor contracts.
Historian A ; Freedmen
Freedmen Bureau was an organization with some service done but mostly corrupt.
Historian A ; Freedmen, Northerners that came South during reconstruction.
Black people in the south were vagrant and wandered around irresponsibly, dodging jobs when labor was most in demand and when labor was most needed to secure crop harvests. The South as a just result passed vagrancy laws as part of the Black Codes.
Historian A ; Black Codes, Freedmen
The Civil rights act was an unwarranted extension of central government power forced upon state governments.
Historian A ; Reconstruction of southern states
Reconstruction Act of 1867
divided the Confederate states except Tennessee into five military districts. Military commanders in the districts were appointed to oversee constitutional conventions in the districts and the creation of state constitutions. This military occupation would last until the states created new constitutions that included black suffrage, the permanent disfranchisement of Confederate leaders, and ratification of the 14th Amendment.
Reconstruction act put the South completely under control of the Republican Party
Historian A ; reconstruction of southern states
Northern carpetbaggers were corrupt politicians and only cared about making money and gaining political power
Historian A ; Northerners that came South during recording
Carpetbaggers
A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
Elections were fraudulent as ignorant blacks had the majority of the vote and their votes were bought easily. They moved from poll stations to poll station under fake names.
Historian A ; Reconstruction of southern states
Scalawag
white Southerner who supported the Republicans during Reconstruction in order to gain money or power.
Radical Republicans taxed the southern states which lead to many whites losing their land which ended up being bought by carpetbaggers and blacks.
Historian A; Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were unjust, corrupt and Scornful
Historian A; Radical Republicans
Blacks joined secret rites provided by the Union Leagues to terrorize whites
Historian A; Freedmen
The Ku Klux Klan was formed in reaction to the terrorization of whites by blacks sponsored by Union Leagues
Historian A; Ku Klux Klan
Radical Republican rule had ruined race relations between blacks and whites in the South during reconstruction
Historian A ; Radical Republicans
Reconstruction was a tragic era because of the misgovernment and corruption that occurred in the Southern states
Historian A ; Was reconstruction a tragic era?
Radical Republicans did not care about blacks rights but only used the black population to gain political power for the Republican Party
Historian A; Radical Republicans
More traditional viewpoint of Reconstruction Era
Historian A
Radical Republicans made just efforts and made Southern Society more democratic in the long run
Historian B ; Radical Republicans
Problems in the South during Reconstruction were primarily caused by Southern whites
Historian B ; Southerners during reconstruction
Southern States passed Black Codes which made Freedmen little better than slaves and these black codes easily tied them back into cheap plantation labor. Unjust vagrancy laws allowed blacks to be actually auctioned off to landowners.
Historian B; Black Codes
Northerners were rightly angered at the Black Codes. The Southerners only saw the future for Blacks as illiterate, unskilled, propertyless, agriculture workers.
Historian B; Northerners on reconstruction
Radical Republicans had been abolitionists before the civil war and some even over 20 years. This shows their genuine concern for the Black communities rights.
Historian B; Radical republicans
Land ownership would give the blacks economic power to be independent of the plantation system.
Historian B; Freedmen
The Freedmens bureau was a well organization that provided emergency relief, schools, and protected rights of blacks.
Historian B; Freedmen
Carpetbaggers were truly interested in helping black people
Historian B; Northerners that came South during reconstruction
Scalawags rightly aligned with the Republican Party because it suited their interests politically and economically.
Historian B; Southerns on reconstruction
Freedmen were illiterate and easily intimidated, But had their own leadership and weren't just republican tools. Rarely vengeful toward Southern Whites
Historian B ; Freedmen
Republican state governments wrote very good state constitutions that had important reforms. The was only minimal corruption
Historian B; reconstruction of southern states
Corruption and high taxes by Republican governments was justified because of the devastating Civil War.
Historian B
The Ku Klux Klan was formed out of anger toward blacks because whites blamed them for the failing economy and higher taxes.
Historian B; Ku Klux Klan
Reconstruction was a tragic era because it left Southern Society rigidly segregated and blacks did not have many more rights than before. Though there was a silver lining in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments being passed which were key elements in the Civil Rights movement.
Historian B; Was reconstruction a tragic era?
Thesis Interpretation
Historian A
Antithesis Interpretation
Historian B
Synthesis Interpretation
Historian C
Historiography
How we interpret and make meaning of the past
Fredrick Jackson Turner
A historian at the University of Wisconsin that believed the frontier created a unique American experience and that its conquest by Americans was natural.
Turner Thesis
The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier was the key factor in the development of American culture and society.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
A former cowboy, settler, and showman who had came to the west and "done everything a man possibly could do." He believed that Indians were savages and needed to be fought and conquered. He displayed this in his show Wild West Extravaganza.
Commoditization of the West
The frontier was popularized and used by people and companies for advertisement and monetary gain.
Example of Commodization of the West
San Antonio Spurs, Oregon Trail Video Game, San Francisco 49ers, Lincoln Logs, Oklahoma Sooners.
New Left Revisionism
A movement in 1960-1970 that criticized the traditional heroic view of the American western conquest from the "left" of the political spectrum. Puts emphasis on people marginalized by the traditional historic view. Ex: POC, Women, Working Class, (More recent, Gender Sexuality).
New Left Vision of the West
American Indians are peaceful and noble group who were heavily marginalized and victims of genocide during American western conquest.
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