US History Chapter 15 activity

As a result of the Specie Resumption Act of 1875, which went into effect in January 1879, government-issued certificates would be tied to

the price of gold.

The Black Codes were a set of regulations established by

the southern states to promote white supremacy and to control the economic and social activities of the freedmen

The mayor of Memphis

was reportedly drunk and failed to control the riots.

Which of the following groups provided a high percentage of the factory labor force in the South?

white women

Which of the following, if any, was NOT associated with the Compromise of 1877?

All of these were associated with the Compromise of 1877. removal of the last federal troops from the South, increased federal aid for railroads and other internal improvements, appointment of a southerner to the cabinet, making Rutherford B. Hayes president

During Reconstruction, there was a "pause" in readmitting the states of the former Confederacy between 1868 and 1870. What caused that "pause"?

Congress added an additional requirement that states ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.

What prominent man was nominated by both the Democrats and Liberal Republicans to challenge Grant in the 1872 presidential election?

Horace Greeley

The small group of conservative white men who ran southern state governments after Reconstruction were known by which of the following names?

Redeemers

This Freedmen's Bureau report was prepared by

T.W. Galbraith.

During Radical Reconstruction, military commanders were tasked with registering qualified voters. Who was included in that category?

adult black males and white males who had not fought for the Confederacy

From the 1600s to the 1800s, the banjo was usually shown as

an accompaniment, with rhythm instruments, for dances.

The report states that the Memphis police have a special hatred for

black soldiers.

The banjo became popular with whites because of

black-face minstrelsy.

What did many of the white minstrel shows add in the years after the Civil War?

carnival-type attractions

Why did white minstrel shows expand the subject matter and content of their shows after the Civil War?

competition from black minstrel shows

Which of the following prompted the Republican congress to pass the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871?

economic pressures towards blacks as a means of political force

Reconstruction governments clearly improved which of the following aspects of postwar southern society?

education

For southern blacks and whites, Reconstruction became a struggle to define the meaning of what term?

freedom

Education in the South

greatly improved, but will still racially segregated.

When did Radical Reconstruction begin?

in 1867

On May 1, 1866, the City Recorder asked whites to

kill all blacks or drive them out of Memphis.

According to archivist Greg Adams, the banjo was America's first form of

popular music.

Which faction of the Republican Party wanted Reconstruction to punish the former Confederacy, disenfranchise large numbers of southern whites, and confiscate the property of leading Confederates?

radicals

Critics of native southern whites who joined the Republican Party called them

scalawags.

Which of the following statements about early minstrel shows is accurate?

They offered ugly, ignorant stereotypes of slave culture.

Historical material related to the banjo goes back to the

1600s

According to Gilbreth, approximately how many blacks died in the Memphis race riots of 1866?

30

The banjo is known to have originated in

Africa.

Which of the following statements about postwar black poverty is TRUE?

It declined in relative terms for a few years after the war, but remained stagnant after that time.

How did William A. Dunning's Reconstruction, Political and Economic (1907) fit into late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century histories of Reconstruction?

It represented the dominant view of Reconstruction as an unjust and corrupt punishment of a weakened South.