Chapter 15 US History

The politics of Reconstruction led to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in the United States House of Representatives, but:

the Senate failed to convict.

Carpetbaggers

were Northern Republicans who lived in the South

Scalawags

were Southern native-born white Republicans who suffered the disgrace of turning traitor to their region and to the Confederate cause.

What was the term for the African American ladies memorial association that arranged the mourning for Union soldiers buried in Charleston?

Patriotic Association

How did black churches help to develop political organization in black communities? Creating opportunities for women All of the answers are correct. Training leaders for both preaching and political work Providing gathering places for political meetings

All of the Answers are correct

Black codes, including vagrancy laws had which of the following effects? Limited black mobility All of the answers are correct. Locked many into exploitative farming contracts Criminalized black leisure

All of the answers are correct

What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies? White men beat or shot black men with relative impunity, and did so over minor squabbles, labor disputes, longstanding grudges, and crimes of passion All of the answers are correct. Attacking black candidates and office holders and frightening voters with threats of violence Targeting freedpeople who tried to purchase land or otherwise become too independent from the white masters they used to rely on

All of the answers are correct

How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance?

Asserted the federal government's power to enforce the Bill of Rights over the authority of the states

When did Reconstruction begin?

Before the war ended

Black delegates actively participated in revising the state constitutions of southern states. In addition to election reform, what other major accomplishment did these delegates achieve?

Established public school systems

Which of the following goal of freedpeople was the least successful?

Gaining access to land

Why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins?

He was a white sheriff and tax collector who supported freedpeople's civil rights

Redeemers

Post-Civil War Democrats who supposedly saved the South from Yankee domination and "black rule."

The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following?

Promised the removal of federal troops from the South

In the Compromise of 1877:

Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes won the disputed Election of 1876 and in exchange the Republican Party pulled the last troops out of the South to end Reconstruction.

General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 was intended to do which of the following?

Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads for freed people

What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?

Sharecropping

The Thirteenth Amendment:

abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.

The Fourteenth Amendment:

allowed for equal protection of the laws.

The Fifteenth Amendment:

granted suffrage to formerly enslaved Africans.

The Freedmen's Bureau:

helped to educate and aid freed slaves.

After the collapse of Reconstruction:

most Southern whites remained hostile to the notion of civil rights and social equality for African Americans.

President Andrew Johnson:

offered general amnesty to Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States.

Why did women's rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment?

It introduced the word "male" into the Constitution for the first time

The Depression of 1873 began when a prominent business declared bankruptcy. What was the name of that company?

Jay Cooke and Company