Chapter 15 Review

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

A man from a state that had seceded was now president.

When assesing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?

Both Congress and the president accused each other of unconstitutional acts.

The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstrction took place in __________ 1873, where armed whites killed hundreds of former slaves, including fifty militia members who had surrendered.

Colfax, Louisiana,

How did Frederick Douglass see the post-Civil War South?

Douglass wanted to ensure the ideals of the Declaration of Independence became a reality for black me, too.

What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?

He allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act.

After the Civil War, ex-slaves were labeled as "drifters" What was the reality for these ex-slaves?

Many slaves were moving around in search of family members who had been sold.

In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the ________________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.

Reconstruction Act

How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

The black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers.

Through analyzing the "Sharecropper Contract," what can be determined?

The contract was a type of economic slavery.

What would have made he Freedman's Bureau more effective?

The government should have employed more agents to help with the numerous duties of the bureau.

According to the position from the freedmen to President Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangering freedom?

They tried to limit economic opportunity.

How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln?

When making decisions Johnson was less flexible than Lincoln.

The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?

Women were excluded from the suffrage amendment.

Which of the following would have been the least likely witness against the crimes of the Ku Klux Klan in a federal prosecution?

a Confederate veteran

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1873 case in which Myra Bradwell challenged an Illinois statue excluding women from practicing law:

demonstrates that, while racial definitions of freedom were changing, gendered ones still existed.

Southern Republicans during Reconstruction:

established the South's first state-supported schools.

During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone who supported a woman's right to vote:

found themselves divided over whether or not to support the Fifteenth Amendment.

The Liberal Republican movement in 1872:

initially had little to do with Reconstruction but encouraged opposition to Grant's policies in the South.

All of the following are true of passage of the fifteenth amendment except:

it aided the election of Ulysses Grant to the presidency in 1868.

The crop-lien system:

kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.

According to the authors of the 1865 Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedom to Andrew Johnson, what was the foundation of freedom?

land ownership

For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant:

land ownership.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that:

most rights of citizens are under the control of state governments rather than the federal government.

With the beginning of Radical Reconstruction, southern African-Americans in the late 1860s and early 1870s took direct action to remedy long-standing grievances. These actions included:

sit-ins that helped to integrate horse-drawn streetcars in southern cities.

Which of the following was clear evidence of the desire of southern freedmen to improve their community and individual condition?

the establishment of Fisk University

Which of the following attests to President Johnson's deeply racist views of African-Americans?

the makeup of the southern state conventions of 1865

What proof is there for the claim that Reconstruction was the "negro's hour"?

the ratification of the 14th Amendment

Which of the following provides evidence for that northern whites were retreating from the Reconstruction of the South even before the compromise of 1877.

the slaughterhouse cases

During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community:

was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches.

The election of 1876:

was tainted by claims of fraud in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.

Which of the following was NOT a accomplishment of southern governments run by Republicans during Reconstruction?

widespread transformation of plantations into black-owned farms