The Failed Promise
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Which group sought to gain control over their own children or other children who had been apprenticed to white masters either during the war or as a result of the Black Codes?

  • Freedpeople (correct)
  • Republican Party
  • Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
  • African Americans
  • What was the main goal of the government in encouraging Black people to marry?

  • To make free Black men responsible for their own households (correct)
  • To encourage family reunification
  • To prevent Black women and children from becoming dependent on the government
  • To promote racial justice
  • What was one of the significant transformations that took place after emancipation?

  • Expansion of white-controlled churches
  • Increase in racial justice
  • Decrease in educational opportunities
  • Proliferation of independent Black churches (correct)
  • Which denomination became the fastest growing post-emancipation denomination?

    <p>Baptists</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did women leaders in Baptist, Methodist, and Pentecostal churches work to protect Black women from?

    <p>Sexual violence from white men</p> Signup and view all the answers

    During the time of Jim Crow, Black churches experienced a shift in their role to primarily focus on

    <p>Negotiating relationships within the community and the wider world</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the main function of churches in towns?

    <p>Serving as community centers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which groups utilized the regalia, ritual, and hymns of churches?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What provided a foundation for ministers’ political leadership?

    <p>Both access to pulpits and growing congregations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What phase did Black churches enter with the rise of Jim Crow?

    <p>Negotiating relationships within the community and the wider world</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which order did General William T. Sherman issue to set aside land for the freedpeople?

    <p>Special Field Order No. 15</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was one of the main purposes of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

    <p>To redistribute land to the freedpeople</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happened to the land grants given to the freedpeople in 1866?

    <p>They were reinstated to ex-Confederates</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the response of the Black commission on Edisto Island when informed of the policy change regarding land reform?

    <p>They were angry and resentful</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did Freedmen’s Bureau agents sometimes ensure that crops would be harvested?

    <p>By coercing formerly enslaved people into signing contracts</p> Signup and view all the answers

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