Economic Impact
A. Give examples of some of the destruction in the South after the Civil War.
B. The South was given no support from the Federal government to rebuild. What was the economic impact of the Civil War?
https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/reconstruction-1865-1877-19/the-aftermath-of-the-war-138/devastation-in-the-south-733-6732/
C. Describe sharecropping. How was this different than slavery?
D. Why did sharecropping cause tension between newly Freedmen and white small farm owners?
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section3/section3_free.html
E. Who were the Carpetbaggers? What was their role in Reconstruction?
F. Even though they were initially accepted as bringing needed investment into the south. why were carperbaggers eventually shunned?
G. Who were the Scalawags? What was their role in Reconstruction?
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2005-07-13-voa4-83125892/124731.html
H. What was the role of women after the Civil War?
http://civilwarwomenblog.com/womens-rights-after-the-civil-war/
B. The South was given no support from the Federal government to rebuild. What was the economic impact of the Civil War?
https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/reconstruction-1865-1877-19/the-aftermath-of-the-war-138/devastation-in-the-south-733-6732/
C. Describe sharecropping. How was this different than slavery?
D. Why did sharecropping cause tension between newly Freedmen and white small farm owners?
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section3/section3_free.html
E. Who were the Carpetbaggers? What was their role in Reconstruction?
F. Even though they were initially accepted as bringing needed investment into the south. why were carperbaggers eventually shunned?
G. Who were the Scalawags? What was their role in Reconstruction?
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2005-07-13-voa4-83125892/124731.html
H. What was the role of women after the Civil War?
http://civilwarwomenblog.com/womens-rights-after-the-civil-war/