APUSH learning curve ch 15
Which adjective accurately describes Republican state governments in the Reconstruction South?
Ambitious in goals
How was Reconstruction taught in American children schools at least until the 1960s?
As the illegitimate regime of lazy blacks
What did President Andrew Johnson's opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment succeeded in achieving?
Helping Republicans win an overwhelming majority in Congress in 1866
What was radical about the Fourteenth Amendment?
It defined citizenship in national rather than state terms.
What benefit did sharecropping offer African Americans over the old institution of slavery?
It ended gang labor and allowed freedmen to work on their own terms.
The Black Codes instituted by southern state governments created under Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan aimed to achieve what goal?
Place African Americans in a situation as close to slavery as possible
In an 1865 published letter to his former master in Tennessee, Jourdon Anderson asked "if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane. . . . I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters." Judging by this statement, what was one of the most important benefits of black freedom after the Civil War?
Safety from a master's sexual violence
Which of the following can be inferred from this political cartoon from the weekly magazine The Judge?
The artist sympathized with the anger and frustration of women
Why did the economic troubles brought on by the panic of 1873 hit southern governments particularly hard?
The southern economy had already been growing slowly before the downturn.
Why were the odds stacked against freedmen who became sharecroppers?
They could not escape debt.
Why were Supreme Court decisions of the 1870s and 1880s regarding the Civil War amendments and civil rights acts significant?
They restricted the impact of these amendments and rulings.
What service, in addition to religious services, did churches provide African Americans after the Civil War?
They served as social centers.
Which provision was part of the Wade-Davis Bill of July 1864, the first congressional plan for Reconstruction?
Those who had fought against the United States could not form new governments
In the South of the late 1800s, sharecroppers found themselves tied to the land and in debt to landlords and merchants in a system of forced labor known as
peonage
