Chapter 15

The crop-lien system of credit was detrimental to what groups?

1. African Americans 2. poor whites 3. farmers

Which of the following correctly describes events of the conspiracy of April 1865?

1. Booth was shot and killed by Union troops 2. an associate of Booth's abandoned a plan to murder the vice president

Which of the following helped the Radicals win control of the House and Senate in the 1866 congressional elections?

1. Johnson's active campaigning for Conservative candidates 2. race riots in New Orleans and other southern cities

What were scandals that plagued the Grant administration?

1. a construction company working with the Union Pacific created fraudulent contracts 2. the secretary of war accepted bribes to keep and Indian-post trader in office 3. members of the Treasury Department were operation a "whiskey ring" that filed fraudulent tax reports

Benefits to former slaves during Reconstruction included:

1. a redistribution of income 2. the creation and strengthening of African American institutions 3. the partial redistribution of landownership

How did African American family life change after the Civil War?

1. african americans left plantations to search for lost relatives and reunite families 2. many women and children stopped working in the fields 3. african americans used to have their marriages legalized and bless by the church

What did Booker T. Washington recommend African Americans to do?

1. attend school to learn skills 2. improve their dress 3. refine their speech

What groups were key supporters of educational reform in the South during Reconstruction?

1. black southerners 2. Northern Philanthropic Organizations 3. the Freedmen's Bureau

In oder to accept Hayes as president, Souther Democrats required all of the following concessions

1. control of federal patronage in their areas 2. federal aid for the Texas and Pacific Railroad 3. withdrawal of remaining federal troops form Southern states

Many scalawags, or Southern white Republicans, also could be classified as

1. farmers form remote areas 2. former wigs

In order to resolve disputed electoral returns, Congress created a special electoral commission composed of:

1. five Supreme Court justices 2. five senators 3. five representatives

What are three statements about African Americans during Reconstruction that are correct?

1. many served as delegates to constitutional conventions 2. nearly two dozen served in the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives 3. many served in the state legislature or held other government jobs

Which of the following best describe life in the mill towns of the "New South"?

1. owners and managers of the factories rigidly controlled mill life 2. black and white cultures came into closer contact than was comfortable for white leaders

Congressional Radicals used all of the following methods to prevent the president from interfering with their plans for Reconstruction

1. passing the Tenure of Office Act 2. overriding his veto 3. passing the Command of the Army Act

The Bourbon governments sought to overturn Reconstruction Era policies by

1. reducing government spending 2. cutting back on government services

Andrew Johnson's "Restorations" plan required Southern states to do all of the following:

1. revoke secession ordinances 2. repudiate war debt 3. abolish slavery

Which of the following describe conditions for white Southerners in the aftermath of the Civil War?

1. some faced starvation and homelessness 2. many had almost no personal property 3. thousands that had fought for the Confederacy had returned wounded or sick

Which of the following was true about political activity in the South after the Compromise of 1877?

1. souther state governments were "redeemed" by white Democrats who advocated "home rule" 2. the south fell under the control of a powerful group of Democrats operation as an oligarchy 3. the souther ruling class largely consisted of merchants interested in economic development

What activities would groups such as the KKK, Knights of the White Camellia, and the Red Shirts and White Leagues use to undermine Reconstruction?

1. use of terrorism to prevent African Americans from voting 2. use of armed coercion to force all white males to join the Democratic Party

Which of the following were major components of Lincoln's proposed plan for Reconstruction?

1. voters who had pledged loyalty to the Union could set up a state government 2. southerners had to accept the abolition of slavery

While many criticized souther government for corruption during Reconstruction others acknowledged that corruption

1. was just as bad in the North 2. was related to expansion of government services during the period 3. persisted after Reconstruction ended

The ______ Amendment guarantees citizenship to everyone born in the United States

14th

With the 1870 passage of the ______ amendment, which gave all male citizens the right to vote, many reformers felt that African Americans should be able to take care of themselves

15th

Between 1857 and 1879, the per capita income of African Americans rose by what percentage?

46%

William H. Seward bought _____ from Russia for $7.2 million, a deal that became known as "Seward's Folly"

Alaska

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, souther states enacted laws known as the _______ _______ to maintain white southerners' power over former slaves

Black Codes

In March 1865, Congress established the ______ to distribute food and establish schools

Freedmen's Bureau

President Lincoln was attending a play at Ford's Theater when he was shot by

John Wilkes Booth

A group of ________ opposed President Grant's reelection and broke with the rest of the party to nominate Horace Greeley

Liberal Republicans

In the Disputed presidential election of 1876, Democrat _______ carried the South and won the popular vote by 300,000 votes

Samuel J. Tilden

True or false: many freed slaves searched for their lost relatives during Reconstruction

True

The Radical Republicans' proposal for Reconstruction was known as the ______-_______ Bill

Wade-Davis

Radicals in the House led the charge to impeach President Johnson after he dismissed the Secretary of ______

War

The 10% in Lincoln's 10% plan referred to the percentage of

a state's voters who must pledge loyalty to the U.S. government

How did the Radical Reconstruction bills define the voters who could elect representatives to state constitutional conventions?

all adult black males and those white males who had not participated in the rebellion

White Northerners who moved to the South and served as Republican leaders during Reconstruction were called "_________" by Southerners who resented their involvement

carpetbaggers

What is not true of the Panic of 1873 and its effect on the national economy?

debtors begged the government to stay out of the issue and let the market recover on its own

Which of the following describes the greatest obstacle faced by African Americans in asserting their rights during Reconstruction?

economic pressure, such as refusals of land to rent or of credit or work

What was not one of the reactions of Northerners to Lincoln's assassination?

embracing Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction and a quick peace with the South

After the Civil War, many former slaves sought to

establish mutual-aid societies and schools

What major goal of the Freedman's Bureau did the bureau fail to achieve?

fundamentally reforming land ownership in the South

Which of the following best describes how W.E.B. Du Bois saw the successes and failures of Reconstruction?

he saw it as an ultimately valuable effort by both blacks and whites to make Southern society more democratic

What causes landownership among whites to decrease during Reconstruction?

loss of land due to unpaid debts

In the 1890s, the level of white violence against blacks increased, most notably due to _____ mobs.

lynch

Which of the following accurately describes conditions for Southern blacks in the aftermath of the Civil War?

most of the 3.5 million emerging from bondage had nowhere to go

In order to disenfranchise black voters, many states developed a _______ tax

poll

Many Northerners were concerned to see Souther states electing _________ as their representatives to Congress

prominent Confederate leaders

Which of the following northern values did southerners not want to emulate?

racial equality

White Southerners who supported the Republican Party during Reconstruction were known in the South as _________

scalawags

What did not contribute to the expansion of the textile industry in the South?

scarcity of water power

The dominant form of tenant farming in the post-Reconstruction South was _________

sharecropping

What was not part of Andrew Johnson's "Restoration" plan

souther congressmen had to take an oath that they had not raised arms against the United States

In 1883, the Supreme Court ruled that _______ could not discriminate based on race, but ________ could.

state government....private companies

How were Lincoln's 10% Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill alike?

they allowed individual states to decide what, if any, political rights blacks had

Which of the following best describes most former slaves' economic status at the end of the Civil War?

they had no possessions except for the clothes they wore

For what reason, described in his inaugural address, did President Hates withdraw troops from Southern states and allow white Democrats to take over southern state governments?

to restore peaceful self-government