12.  The 'Redeemers' portrayed themselves as the:Group of answer choicesprotectors of freedmenSaviors of the South from the injustices of Republican and black rulevaliant enforcers of the Constitution and states rightsleaders who had saved the Union from Confederate treason

Which of the following best describes is the Redeemer myth of Reconstruction in the states of the former Confederacy?Group of answer choicesReconstruction was a tragic era of Republican misrule that only ended when white Democrats took powerThe American South became a better place during Reconstruction because of the work of Christian socialistsReconstruction would have gone smoothly and with little violence if Abraham Lincoln would have lived to oversee itReconstruction was a heroic era in which black citizens finally enjoyed the their well-earned civil rights

1. The African American authors of the “Address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States” made a particular effort to __________.A.describe their contributions to the war effortB.assert their equal citizenship and right to voteC.demonstrate their humilityD.underscore their bitterness toward white peopleSubmit-- of 1 pointAssessment: Competing Visions DEMANDING RIGHTS, PROTECTING PRIVILEGE3 tries left2. What was the purpose of the 1865 Mississippi “Black Code”?A.to make provisions for the inclusion of blacks in governmentB.to define the rights of blacksC.to sharply limit the newly won freedoms of African AmericansD.to make provisions for blacks to participate in elections

Complete the statement describing the different visions of freedom in the Reconstruction South.The former slaves defined freedom as the right to mobility, education, political participation, and –. Southern whites defined freedom as –, not a right. Northern Republicans believed freedom was the right of labor to – and advance in society.labor contractsreligious tolerancea privilegesomething earnedlandownershipcompete

What statement describes the goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau, a federal agency created following the Civil War? A to arrest Ku Klux Klan members in the south and to provide food to the poor in the southB to create a social club for former Confederate soldiers and to prevent soldiers from running for office during the reconstruction period  C to provide food to the poor in the south, establish schools and hospitals for freed men, and settle legal disputes between African Americans and whitesD to prevent soldiers from running for office during the Reconstruction period, to arrest Ku Klux Kan members in the south, and to help build hospital and schools for freedmen

Some twelve thousand voters in the heretofore slave-state of Louisiana have sworn allegiance to the Union, assumed to be the rightful political power of the State, held elections, organized a State government, adopted a free-state constitution, and empowered the Legislature to confer the elective franchise upon the colored man. Now, if we reject, and spurn them, we do our utmost to disorganize and disperse them. We in effect say to the white men, "You are worthless, or worse -we will neither help you, nor be helped by you." To the blacks we say, "This cup of liberty which these, your old masters. hold to your lips, we will dash from you, and le.ave you to the chances of gathering the spilled and scattered contents in some vague and undefined when, where, and how."5In the text, what does the imagery of a cup of liberty mainly serve to emphasize?AThe generosity of the Union in giving freed slaves certain benefitsBThe advances made by the Union in protecting the rights of former slavesCThe unconscious way in which many people accept their freedomsDThe precarious nature of the freedoms granted to former slaves in Louisiana