AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 2 CHAPTER 13 EXAM
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was championed by __________.
Charles Sumner
What is the connection between Frederick Douglass and the Freedmen's Savings Bank?
Douglass served as president and invested his own money in the bank
Which of the following events helps explain declining interest among northern white people in the problems of southern black people
the Panic of 1873
The Hamburg Massacre and Ellenton Riot represented
the effort of South Carolina Democrats to imitate the shotgun policy
The Enforcement Acts were passed in direct response to _
white violence against African Americans and white Republicans
During Reconstruction, most disagreements within the Republican Party centered on
who should run for office
In exchange for Democratic support in the constitutional crisis created by the disputed outcome of the election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes ________.
withdrew the last federal troops from the South
Which of the following was true of relations between Native Americans and African Americans in the decades before the Civil War?
Native Americans owned thousands of slaves.
Mifflin and Jonathan Gibbs were active in _____
Republican politics
Most of the delegates elected to constitutional conventions in the southern states in 1867 and 1868 were
Republicans
Black delegates were a majority in which state's constitutional convention?
South Carolina
The Rollin sisters played an important role in the politics of which state?
South Carolina
The outcome of the election of 1876 centered on the resolution of disputed outcomes in Florida, Louisiana, and _________.
South Carolina
Which of the following best characterizes Republican education initiatives during Reconstruction?
They enjoyed only limited success.
Who responded to Governor Adelbert Ames's requests for federal intervention in Mississippi by claiming that the American people were "tired out with these annual autumnal outbreaks in the South"?
U. S. Grant
Hiram Revels was elected __________ in Mississippi.
U.S. senator
Where was the Klan most active and violent?
York County, South Carolina
The 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act provided funds for ___
agricultural and mechanical colleges
Black politicians pushed for laws to protect the interests of
agricultural laborers and small farmers
During Reconstruction, Republicans __________.
created statewide systems of public education
Where was the Ku Klux Klan most powerful in the South?
in areas where African Americans constituted a large minority of the population
Which of the following were black leaders unable to accomplish during Reconstruction?
provide land to landless farmers
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 banned discrimination in __________.
public hotels
During Reconstruction, public schools in the South were
strictly segregated
Which of the following was one of the Five Civilized Tribes?
the Cherokee
What is the connection between the Ku Klux Klan and Reconstruction?
The Klan promoted violence in the interest of southern Democrats who ended Reconstruction.
What is the connection between the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and Reconstruction?
The act was the last piece of civil rights legislation to assist black people passed before Reconstruction ended.
What effect did the Enforcement Acts exert on the Klan?
The government moved quickly against the Klan, but few members were punished severely.
Which of the following is true about the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871?
They actually did not go into effect because of white racism in the South.
How did white southerners justify the use of violence to force black men out of politics?
They argued that black men had no legitimate claim to political rights.
