HY 104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thaddeus Stevens, Gilded Age, Homestead Acts
29 Aug 2016
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Please write an essay in which you examine these various groups and their struggles. Blacks still lacked the right to vote. Describe the various groups and what exactly they were fighting for: andrew johnson. Believed blacks did not deserve the rights of citizenship. He saw blacks as a vote block (they would vote wit their past owners: thaddeus stevens. His most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of the disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to the south: freedmen"s bureau. Supposed to establish schools, provide aid, settle disputes, and secure equal treatments before courts. Success: set up the first public school in the south. Failure: failed to give blacks what they wanted most- land. Blacks thus stayed poor throughout reconstruction: knights of labor. American federation of labor (today"s knights of labor: haymarket riot. Half a million workers walked off the job in a strike: southern farmers alliance.
