Study.com Chapter 12

There were numerous questions that faced the nation following the Civil War. An important concern had to do with:

How to keep society together and prevent another civil war.

Voting rights had been granted males of all races...

By the end of the Reconstruction era

This poorly educated Georgia freedman from a family sharecroppers became a successful businessman who bought real estate, started an insurance company, and became a millionaire. What was his name?

Alonzo Herndon

During Reconstruction President Johnson allowed former Confederate officials and soldiers to participate in state and local government by requiring them to:

Pledge allegiance to the United States

Which description best fits the life of the typical homesteader in the years following the Civil War?

it was a difficult life of isolation and danger from severe weather, limited water resources, ad hostility of Native Americans who resented the settlers' encroachment on their lands

Following the Civil War when former Confederates leaders were once again allowed to serve in Congress the Radical Republicans:

Would not officially seat them or even acknowledge them as members of Congress.

Following the Civil War it was Lincoln's intention to:

Bring the southern states back into the Untion in a fair way that would soften the political, physical, economic and social blows

The attempts to reform Southern Society following the Civil War were generally met with:

Anger over what were seen as the North's unnecessary attempts to re-engineer Southern society

Why was the presidential race of 1876 not decided on election night?

Democrat Tilden won the popular vote but failed to win a majority in the Electoral College

Sharecropping provided a solution to the farming crisis after the Civil War, but in doing so it created a significant problem for many years to come. What was this problem?

It kept the freed slaves and the poorest of the white farmers tied to unscrupulous landowners who did not have the sharecroppers' best interest at heart

The political campaigns of 1876 boiled down to the following positions or assertions held by the opposing parties:

The Democrats advocated ending Reconstruction, while the Republicans claimed the Democrats were essentially still rebels and shouldn't be trusted

White Democrats managed to dominate the political scene in every Southern state by the close of the Reconstruction era in 1877. What were they also known as?

The Redeemers

In which Supreme Court ruling of 1873 was it determined that the 14th Amendment applied only to the federal level?

The Slaughterhouse cases

Which of these Reconstruction scenarios was opposed by the Radical Republicans?

The former confederate states and their political leaders should be permitted to return the the USA with minimal consequences

With the end of the Civil War came the end of slavery in the South. What was one of the ew problems it created?

The post-war society had to contend with large numbers of freedmen who were unprepared to function independently in a free society

The term Reconstruction describes:

The program enacted by the Federal Government to rebuild the South and restore it to the Union following the Civil War

During the Reconstruction years many Northerners:

Wanted to make the South pay for the destruction caused the war

The Dred Scott Decision...

Was a major court case overturned by the 14th Amendment.