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Major Problems Ch. 10-11 - Coggle Diagram
Major Problems Ch. 10-11
Reconstruction Policy
Disagreements within Northern Republicans
How harshly to treat the South
Political and civil rights freedpeople should receive
Federal authority managing Southern affairs
Radical Republicans wanted big changes in the South
African American Civil rights
Punish Confederate leaders
Congressional Republicans
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Proposed 14th Amendment
Conflict with President
Meaning of Freedom
Control over labor
Reuniting of families
Access to land
Education
Legal protections
New Southern Labor system
Freed people wanted: wage labor, right to choose employers and negotiate contracts
Freedmen's Bureau attempted to help
Mediated labor contracts
Protect from employer abuse
Help establish schools
Southern landowners wanted: disciplined labor force and a system that kept African American labor cheap
Sharecropping
Allowed freedpeople to work a plot of land in return for some share
Cycle of debt and dependence