APUSH - Chapter 14 & 15

Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?

A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers

During Reconstruction, which of following was a change that took place in the South?

African Americans were able to exercise political rights.

In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting...

African Americans' voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment

Where was the surrendering of General Lee in 1865 to end the Civil War?

Appomattox Court House, Virgina

Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?

For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?

He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.

Using the map and your knowledge from the chapter, which state was a slave state but did not leave the Union?

Maryland

Which slaves were freed with the Emancipation Proclamation?

Slaves in Confederate states

Using the map, which state was the 1st to succeed from the Union?

South Carolina

The provision below, from the 14th Amendment, overturned which of the following things?

Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford

Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?

The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election.

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?

The election of 1860

Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction?

The formation of the Ku Klux Klan

Which Constitutional Amendment ended slavery?

Thirteenth Amendment

On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in aspect?

experienced military leadership

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863, to answer Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was to...

gain continued support for the war effort

In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with...

protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the...

spread of sharecropping

The image of a union soldier between white and black southerners most strongly supports the argument that Reconstruction...

temporarily altered (changed) race relations in the South

The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in which event?

the draft riots in New York City

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in...

the withdrawal of federal troops from the South

During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the...

granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods

The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it...

halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North

Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

the growing power of poor Southern whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established...

that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude