Chapter 15: "What is Freedom": Reconstruction (1865-1877)

Douglass

means by the term "composite nationality "that all races come together as a nation to follow the same laws, speak the same language and uphold the same government, prosper together, etc.

Stanton

believes that individual freedom within the family can be established through individual judgment.

Freedom

and owning land have an equal relationship because it gives you the ability to vote and even holds office.

social revolution

The was defined as being more important than the political or the religious revolution because it went deep down the very foundation of society.

Union

Aims to work for safer conditions for laborers to protect them from harm and exhaustion.

Importance of Retaking Edisto Island

You need to own land to vote

Freedom and owning land

They have an equal relationship because it gives you the ability to vote and even holds office.

African Americans

The wanted to be citizens and be able to participate and have a voice just like white citizens.

state of Mississippi

The required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts but not the whites

Black codes

stated that African Americans had to sign a yearly labor contract, or they would be fined and sent to jail.

Sharecropping Contract

It forced the black workers to share a portion of their crops with the landowner as a fee for using their land to grow crops on.

Individual judgement

Stanton believes that individual freedom within the family can be established through _

Composite Nationality

All races come together as a nation to follow the same laws, speak the same language and uphold the same government, prosper together, etc.

Frederick Douglass

He believes that people should be allowed to move freely from one country to another

Civil Rights Bill

It appealed for more support more strongly to the sense of justice and fair play which is said to be a characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race.