Chapter 12 History

Which idea was a part of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

A. The Southern states had never really left the Union.

legislation requiring a majority of a state's prewar voters to swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin

A. Wade-Davis Bill

In the years immediately following the Civil War, the South

A. became a stronghold of the Republican Party.

The Republican party became strong in the South, in part because

A. millions of Southern African American men became voters.

During the 1870s, Supreme Court decisions

A. restricted the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment.

One of President Lincoln's first major goals for Reconstruction was to

A. reunify the nation.

The Ten Percent Plan required that

A. ten percent of a state's voters take a loyalty oath to the Union.

How did Hayes's election effectively end Reconstruction?

B. Federal intervention ended in the South.

Who ran against Grant in 1872 as the Liberal Republican Party candidate?

B. Horace Greeley

Which of the following was a key problem with the sharecropping system?

B. Landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt.

This cartoon shows that President Ulysses S. Grant

B. had his ability to lead marred by scandal.

In the system of share-tenancy, farmworkers

B. had more control over their crops and supplies than was true in sharecropping.

Southern Democrats appealed to small farmers by

B. pointing out that building roads and schools resulted in higher taxes.

The Fifteenth Amendment affected the women's suffrage movement by

B. splitting the movement.

President Johnson' s plan for Reconstruction required

B. wealthy planters and Confederate leaders to apply for pardons.

The Radical Republicans rejected the Ten Percent Plan because they believed that

C. African Americans should be granted full citizenship.

organization that provided food, clothing, healthcare, and education for Southern refugees

C. Freedmen' s Bureau

Why was a plan for Reconstruction of the South needed?

C. The Constitution provided no guidance on secession or readmission of states.

What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson?

C. The House impeached the president, but the Senate failed to remove him.

How were violators of the Enforcement Act of 1870 punished?

C. They were fined at least $500 and imprisoned for a minimum of one month.

What did Johnson require states to do to regain membership in the Union?

C. Voters had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, and state constitutions had to ban slavery.

One success of Reconstruction was the

C. introduction of a tax-supported public school system in the South

Reconstruction was successful in

C. raising African Americans' expectations of their right to citizenship.

During Reconstruction, most African American families in the South

C. remained in rural areas, where they worked at jobs such as lumbering or farming.

By the end of the Civil War,

C. the South' s economy had been destroyed.

During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan

C. used violence to prevent freed people from voting.

What action did Congress take to support Southern African Americans?

D. Congress overturned Johnson's vetoes on major Reconstruction legislation.

Which event led the House of Representatives to impeach President Johnson?

D. Johnson' s attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?

D. Rutherford B. Hayes became president.

laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans

D. black codes

During his presidency, Ulysses S. Grant

D. gave high-level advisory posts to untrustworthy friends and acquaintances.

By the end of the 1860s, Northern support for Reconstruction had faded because

D. the cost of military operations in the South worried many people.

What did the Enforcement Act of 1870 make illegal?

D. the use of force or coercion to prevent citizens from voting

constitutional provision forbidding any state to deny suffrage on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

G. Fifteenth Amendment

Northerners who moved South to improve their economic or political situation

I. carpetbaggers

system in which landowners provided farmers with housing and supplies in exchange for a share of the crop raised

J. sharecropping

organization that used violence to intimidate people

K. Ku Klux Klan

legislation making it a federal offense to interfere with a citizen's right to vote

L. Enforcement Acts

Southern politicians who worked to unite white Southerners to regain power in Congress

M. Redeemers

agreement that led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South

N. Compromise of 1877

Evaluate Information: According to this quotation, why does Stevens believe that Johnson should be removed from office?

Stevens says that Johnson has disrespected and violated his oath of office. He was assuming the duties of the legislative and judicial branches. He was also failing to enforce the laws of the nation as he promised he would do as president.

Explain Problems: How did other concerns in the nation contribute to the end of Reconstruction?

the nation encountered corruption, economic instability, and the rapid growth of industry in the government. This all caused people to lose interest in Reconstruction. People lost jobs and banks failed and other economic problems brought people to question the cost of military operations in the South. Citizens and politicians were more interested and involved in helping economic expansion and improving the government than wasting time and money trying to apply Reconstruction programs in the South.