Scalawgs and Others

Please post your comments and answers below not later than 6AM, Tuesday morning, October 26th, 2010.

1.  In complete sentences, explain the difference between a "Sharecropper" and a "Tenant Farmer" in Reconstruction South.

2.  If you had to be one or the other back then, a sharecropper or a tenant farmer, which would you choose to be and why?

3.  Who were Hiram Revels and Garrison Frazier?  What did they have in common with each other? 

4.  What is the difference between a "Scalawag" and a "Carpetbagger?" If you had to turn to one or the other for help back then, which one would you turn to and why?

Eric Foner's "Reconstruction" - 1

Please complete by midnight Friday, Now!

1.  Chapter 1 claims that Southern yeomen supplied most of the soldiers to the Confederate Army.  They supplied many more soldiers than the Southern gentry did. Chapter 1 also claims that the Confederate government instituted an ordinance of conscription, which the young men of the gentry were able to avoid.

• Who were the yeomen?
• Who were the gentry?
• What is conscription?
• By what means were the gentry able to avoid conscription?

2.  Chapter 1 also claims that in the South, there was a “civil war within the Civil War.” What does that mean, and what caused the war within the war?

3.  Foner writes that “War is the midwife of Revolution.” In other words, the Civil War delivered a “Revolution” to the United States. Please provide a succinct definition of the word “revolution” as opposed to “rebellion”.  And in your opinion, what was the revolution that the Civil War delivered?
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