Chapter 12

What action did Congress take to support Southern African Americans?

Congress overturned Johnson's vetoes on major Reconstruction legislation

Which event led the House of Representives to impeach President Johnson?

Johnson's attempt to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

Which of the following was a key problem in the sharecropping system?

Landowners could lie about expenses to keep sharecroppers in debt

What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?

Rutherford B. Hayes became President

What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson?

The House impeached the President but the Senate failed to remove him

Which idea was part of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

The southern states had never really left the Union

In the years immediatly following the Civil War, the South

became a stronghold of the Republican Party

In the system of share-tenancy, farmworkers

had more control over their crops and supplies than was true in sharecropping

One success of Reconstruction was the

introduction of a tax-supported public school system in the South

Southern Democrats appealed to small farmers by

pointing out that schools and road building resulted in higher taxes

One of President Lincoln's first major goals for Reconstruction was to

reunify the nation

During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan?

used violence to prevent freed people from voting