answer the 4 multiple choice questions on the article.
QUESTIONS:
Read the attached document: Foner, Eric. “Reconstruction Revisited.” Reviews in American History Vol. 10, no. 4 (Dec. 1982). Pp. 82-100.
Then answer the following four questions:
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1. After reading the article and considering the evidence presented, which of the following statements represents the best well-reasoned conclusion about the author’s assessment of Reconstruction?
A. Revisionist works on Reconstruction do not provide an accurate view of this period because later works consider Reconstruction from multiple angles.
B. Students should not use standard historiographical works on Reconstruction because they no longer represent an accurate portrayal of the period.
C. Revisionist works on Reconstruction do not paint the South as victimized by Radical Republicans and thus provide a more accurate portrayal of the period.
D. Works that consider Reconstruction from the perspective of freedmen are more valuable to understanding the successes and failures of the period.
E. Looking at histories of the time period that are not necessarily focused on Reconstruction can provide students and scholars with an understanding of how different groups may be affected by policies and economics of the period encompassing Reconstruction, and thus may give a more comprehensive direction.
2. Imagine that you are tasked with writing a historical research paper on the historical implications of Reconstruction that is worth half of your overall grade. Because the grade you receive on this paper basically determines whether or not you will receive a passing grade in the course, you are very concerned with finding just the right sources that will provide you with the most historically valuable information possible. After reading Foner’s article, which of the following statements describes your best approach to choosing those pertinent sources?
A. A work by Howard K. Beale considers the economic implications of Reconstruction, so you would choose to include his work as a major source of information.
B. You might consider using Wilson Moses’s work, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, but you believe it is also important to bring in works that discuss the economic liabilities of the southern economy post-Civil War as a way of explaining the political realities free men and women faced during Reconstruction.
C. You would use post-revisionist works, demonstrating the continuity between the Old South and the New South, with the overall thesis that Reconstruction did not really mean any change for black men and women post-Civil War..
D. Because you want to provide evidence that considers the contributions of black leaders, you choose to include Thomas Holt’s influential work, Black over White.
E. Because Reconstruction policies derived from the executive and legislative branches of the government, choosing to include an historical work that focuses on federal policy would provide the most sense when writing a paper on the implications of Reconstruction.
3. Considering the article as evidence, and the multiple historical treatments of Reconstruction, which of the following statements is most accurate?
A. A work on Reconstruction produced by the Dunning school would have little historical value today because these works were published too close to Reconstruction, and would thus offer a perspective more biased than other works published later.
B. A work by a scholar writing during the Civil Rights era might provide a more balanced work on Reconstruction.
C. If writing a research paper on Reconstruction, sources, regardless of the time periods they were written, would prove equally valuable at providing evidence of this historical event.
D. The time period in which a scholarly work is written may yield valuable information about Reconstruction, but we may also discover social, economic, and political forces within the United States at the time of publication.
E. An emphasis on economic implications is vital to understanding Reconstruction, and thus any economic treatment would be more useful when researching the period.
4. Imagine you have completed your brilliant historical research paper on Reconstruction, and now you must create a title. Your professor made the title a requirement, meaning it factors in to your overall grade. The title must convey in a few brief words the historical essence of Reconstruction. Taking into consideration the information you read in the article, which of the following titles best encapsulates Reconstruction?
A. “Reconstruction: The History of a Complex Era”
B. “Reconstruction: The Historical Anomaly”
C.” Reconstruction: Varying Historical Views of the Post-Civil War South”
D. “Reconstruction: A Period of Salvation for Free Men and Women”
E. “Reconstruction: A History of Events, Interpretations and Historical Problems”
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