Distinguish

How did Lincoln show generosity to white southerners at the expense of African Americans during Reconstruction?

"Though we have had war, reconstruction, and abolition as a nation, we still linger in the shadow and blight of an extinct institution. Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment ... In his downward course he meets no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress ... .

"If liberty, with us, is yet but a name, our citizenship is but a sham, and our suffrage thus far only a cruel mockery, we may yet congratulate ourselves upon the fact that the laws and institutions of the country are sound, just, and liberal. There is hope ... But until this nation shall make its practice accord with its Constitution and its righteous laws, it will not do to reproach the colored people of this country."

-Frederick Douglass, Speech, September $24, 1883$

Which of the following developed during Reconstruction to provide direct support and support self-determination for those freed from slavery?

(A) Credit Mobilier

(B) Tenant farming

(C ) Sharecropping

(D) Black churches

Evaluate Arguments

Discuss the different viewpoints on franchise businesses.

Why did federal spending increase during Eisenhower's presidency?

What events caused President Truman to propose what became known as the Truman Doctrine?

Compare and contrast the efforts for and against the increasing of guarantees for equal rights for all during Reconstruction.

Evaluate Arguments

Describe George F. Kennan's argument in favor of the containment policy, and explain why he thought it would be successful.

Why did George Kennan think that containment would work against Soviet expansion?

a. How were President Roosevelt's leadership skills reflected in the Square Deal and in his handling of the miners' strike? b. Why did reformers support the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act? How did these acts help consumers? c. Trace the development of the conservation movement in the early 1900s.

Answer a, b, and c.

a) Briefly explain the role of ONE of the following in the Republican Party during this period.

spoilsmen

"waving the bloody shirt"

tariffs

b) Briefly explain the effects of ONE of the following on business and government during this period.

Credit Mobilier

the Tweed Ring

Panic of $1873$

c) Briefly explain the significance of ONE of the following in terms of President Grant's administration.

Jay Gould

Horace Greeley

Rutherford B. Hayes

Imagine that you are an inventor working in Edison's Menlo Park laboratory. Write a letter to your family describing your job. Consider: aspects of working on your own, an invention you might have helped create, how your work builds on earlier innovations

"It is apparent to my mind that the President thoroughly believed the tenure-of­ office act to be unconstitutional and void. He was so advised by every member of his cabinet ....

"This was a punitive statute. It was directed against the President alone. It interfered with the prerogatives of his department as recognized from the foun­- dation of the Government. ... This Government can only be preserved and the liberty of the people maintained by preserving intact the co-ordinate branches of it - legislative, executive, judicial-alike. I am no convert to any doctrine of the omnipotence of Congress.

"I cannot agree to destroy the ... Constitution for the sake of getting rid of an Unacceptable President."

-Senator James W. Grimes, Iowa, statement on the trial of Andrew Johnson, $1868$

"This is one of the last great battles with slavery .... this monstrous power has found a refuge in the Executive Mansion, ... Andrew Johnson is the imperson­- ation of the tyrannical slave power ....

"The veto power conferred by the Constitution ... was turned by him into a weapon of offence against Congress. . . . Laws enacted by Congress for the benefit of the colored race, including ... the Freedmen's Bureau, and ... Civil Rights, were first attacked by his veto .... he boldly attempted to prevent the adoption of a constitutional amendment, by which the right of citizens and the national debt were placed under the guarantee of irrepealable law."

-Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, statement on the trial of Andrew Johnson, Congressional Globe, $1868$

Using the excerpts, answer a, b, and c.

a) Briefly explain the main point of Excerpt 1.

b) Briefly explain the main point of Excerpt 2.

c) Provide ONE piece of evidence from the period $1865$ to $1868$ that is not included in the excerpts and explain how it supports the interpretation in either excerpt.

Analyze and evaluate the importance and efforts of the Americans in gaining international support during the Revolutionary War.

Generate Explanations

How did the concept of collective security lead to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?