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The Reconstruction Era In the United States
Tsk9653 on 02/11/2008
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In this quiz, we will explore the post-Civil War period of Reconstruction in the United States. The period of Reconstruction is generally deemed to extend from 1865 to 1877 which, for the first time, brought a modicum of political and civil rights to African-Americans living in the eleven states that made up the secessionist Confederate States of America. By 1877, the Federal government had lost its zeal for attempting to enforce equality under the law for African-Americans. Thereafter, the Federal government stood by indifferently as the South ignored the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, stripping African-Americans of their civil rights, including the right to vote, that had been won through the carnage of the Civil War. Indeed, it was not until the mid-1960s that politicians and activists would again push the unfinished political agenda of Reconstruction. The image introducing this quiz comes from an 1866 political poster used in Pennsylvania. The caption to the poster reads: "The Freedman's (sic) Bureau. An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man, twice vetoed by the President and made a law by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro; sustain the President and you protect the white man." Warning: For those of you only interested in short questions featuring frivolous content, this is not the quiz for you. This quiz seeks to inform those who are rusty on this important topic of American history about the broad outlines of Reconstruction. Sources: Foner & Garraty, eds., "The Reader's Companion to American History" (Houghton Mifflin Co. 1991), Rosenbaum, "The Penguin Encyclopedia of American History" (Penguin Group, 2001), and Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia.
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