Chapter 15 Multiple Choice

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, some Radical Republicans

proposed abolishing the Court.

Northern Commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of

the adoption of the 15th Amendment

During Reconstruction, Southern African American officeholders

underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.

Black Sharecropping

was a very common occupation of former slaves

Black sharecropping

was a very common occupation of former slaves.

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 187-1871

was aimed at Reducing white repression of blacks in the South

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871

was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.

The Tenure of Office Act

was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.

The tenure of office act

was designed to limit President Johnson's authority

Schuyler Colfax, Grant vice president

was involved in a stock fixing scandal

Schuyler Colfax, Grant's vice president,

was involved in a stock-fixing scandal.

The Panic of 1873

was the worst economic depression to that time

After Reconstruction political power under Southern Redeemers

was very often restricted and conservative

After Reconstruction, political power under southern "Redeemers"

was very often restricted and conservative.

The redeemed governments of the South

were so named when Democrats took back control of the government

The "redeemed" governments of the South

were so named when Democrats took back control of the government.

After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from

country stores.

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction

Radicals sought a range of punishments of white southerners

During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to

Southern white Republicans.

The 15h Amendment dealt with the issue of

Suffrage

Advocates of the "New South"

promoted southern industry and railroad development.

Lincoln wanted ex-Confederate states admitted to the Union when ________ percent of a state's white voters took a loyalty oath.

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Civil Rights Bill of 1866

Along with the Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteed the rights of citizenship to former slaves.

Bradwell v. Illinois

A decision rebuffing the claim that the written legal code and Constitution gave women equal rights.

Slaughterhouse Cases

A decision that rejected the claim by butchers that their right to equality before the law had been violated.

Literacy tests

A method used to exclude uneducated blacks from voting.

''swing around the circle''

A speaking tour of the North taken by Andrew Johnson to urge voters to elect members of Congress committed to his own Reconstruction program.

''waving the bloody shirt''

A tactic of Republicans whereby they identified their opponents with secession and treason.

During the Johnson administration, the US acquired

Alaska

During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired

Alaska.

In 1868 President Johnson was impeached violated the Tenure of Office Act. offered political opposition to Radical Republicans. dismissed Edwin Stanton from office. both violated the Tenure of Office Act and dismissed Edwin Stanton from office. All these answers are correct.

All these answers are correct

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

All these answers are correct.

Northern commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of

All these answers are correct.

The Freedman's Bureau

An agency established by Congress in March 1865 to establish schools, provide aid to the poor and aged, settle disputes between whites and blacks, and secure for former slaves and white Unionists equal treatment before the courts.

After the Civil War most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from

Country stores

During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern

education.

State laws designed to restore slavery in all but name in the post-Civil War South were called the ________.

Black Codes

Redeemers

Conservative white Democrats, many of them planters or businessmen, who reclaimed control of the South following the end of Reconstruction.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags

Derisive term for northern emigrants who participated in the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South; Southern white Republicans-- some former Unionists-- who supported Reconstruction governments.

The Tenure of Office Act was designed to protect the job of Secretary of War ________.

Edwin Stanton

General Oliver O. Howard ran the ________, an agency that established schools and helped provide basic services for former slaves following the Civil War.

Freedmen's Bureau

Fourteenth Amendment

Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves, in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

Bargain of 1877

In the aftermath of a close presidential election, an Electoral Commission declared Rutherford B. Hayes president contingent a variety of compromises and agreements upon his taking office.

The Panic of 1873 began with the failure of a leading investment banking firm, ________.

Jay Cooke and Company

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment

Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,

Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.

Black Codes

Laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves; to nullify the codes, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate?

Many white Southern leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in the South but could not publicly support them.

Crop-lien system

Merchants extended credit to tenants based on their future crops, but high interest rates and the uncertainties of farming often led to inescapable debts.

During Reconstruction most carpet baggers

Northern white veterans who moved to the South

During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were

Northern white veterans who moved to the South.

Black families

Once freed, blacks and their families were strengthened and become central to the postemancipation black community. Former slaves made remarkable efforts to locate loved ones from whom they had been separated under slavery.

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation like hotels and theaters.

In 1896 the Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" in matters of race relations was constitutional, in the case of ________.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibited states from denying citizens the right to vote because of race.

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.

during the last quarter of the 19th Century Southern agriculture

Saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system

During Reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to

Southern White republicans

Enforcement Acts

Three acts outlawing terrorist societies and allowing the president to use the army against them.

Sharecropping

Type of farm tenancy that developed after the Civil War in which landless workers-- often former slaves-- farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crop.

Many of the so-called scalawags were former Southern ________.

Whigs

"Seward's Folly" refers to the American purchase of ________.

alaska

At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was

almost 4 million.

In 1865, Southern black defined "freedom" as

an end to slavery and the acquisition of legal rights and opportunities that would allow them to live as did whites

In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as

an end to slavery and the acquisition of legal rights and opportunities that would allow them to live as did whites.

Booker T. Washington outlined his basic philosophy in an 1895 speech that has come to be called the ________ Compromise.

atlanta

The most numerous Republicans in the South were the ________.

black freedmen

In his 1865 Atlanta Compromise speech Booker T Washington

called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington

called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.

The Fourteenth Amendment offered the first constitutional definition of ________.

citizenship

An end to Reconstruction was achieved by the ________ of 1877.

compromise

In 1865, Southern white defined freedom as

controlling their future without Northern interference

In 1865, Southern whites defined "freedom" as

controlling their future without Northern interference.

By the 1890s voting percentages in the South Had

decreased for both whites and blacks

By the 1890s, voting percentages in the South had

decreased for both whites and blacks.

In the 1860s Black Codes

designed to give whites control over freedmen

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

designed to give whites control over freedmen.

The Freedmen's Bureau:

distributed food to millions of Southern blacks.

In the south, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system

encouraged the planting of cash crops

In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system

encouraged the planting of cash crops.

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex Parte Milligan some Radical republicans

ended military tribunals in favor of Civil Courts

In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

entered the White House with no political experience

Among other ideas, Booker T Washington

favored industrial over classical education

Among other ideas, Booker T. Washington

favored industrial over classical education.

The last ________ were withdrawn from the South by President Hayes.

federal troops

The 14th Amendment

gave Citizenship rights to all people born in the US

The Fourteenth Amendment

gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.

Jim Crow Laws

imposed a system of state supported segreagation

Jim Crow laws

imposed a system of state-supported segregation.

In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln

insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.

In the final days of the Civil War, President Lincoln

insisted that the confederacy had no legal right to exist

The Treaty of Washington provided for ________ with Britain over "Alabama claims."

international arbitration

The assassination of President Abraham Linocln

involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administation

The Alabama Claims

involved complains by the US against England

The Alabama claims

involved complaints by the United States against England.

Enemies of President Grant and "Grantism" were called ________ Republicans.

liberal

Ida B. Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ________ in the late nineteenth-century South.

lynching

Which of the following statement about the end of Reconstruction is accurate

many white southern leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in the south but could not publicly support the

Grandfather laws established that

men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.

Grandfather Laws established that

men who do not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began

President Abraham Lincoln's 10% plan for the south referred to the

number of whit voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government

President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to the

number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.

As president, Andrew Johnson

offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the US

During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South

ownership by white declined, white ownership by Blacks increased

During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South,

ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased.

As President Rutherford B Hayes

promised to serve only one term

As president, Rutherford B. Hayes

promised to serve only one term.

Advocates of the New South

promoted Southern industry and railroad development

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that

racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy V Ferguson that

racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal accommodations

During Reconstruction, the Southern school system

reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876.

During Reconstruction teh southern school system

reached 40% of all black Children by 1876

Democrats restored to power in the South were known variously as the "________" or the "Bourbons."

redeemers

In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction

required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.

In 1867 congressional plans for reconstruction

required new state governments in the south to give voting rights to black males

During Reconstruction per capita income for Southerners

rose for blacks and declined for whites

During Reconstruction, per capita income for Southerners

rose for blacks and declined for whites.

By the end of Reconstruction

roughly half of all black women were working for wages

By the end of Reconstruction,

roughly half of all black women were working for wages.

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agriculture

saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.

After the Civil War, most black agricultural workers toiled as tenants of white landowners and were known as ________.

sharecroppers

During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked

significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery.

During Reconstruction the black labor force worked

significantly fewer hours than he had been the case during Slavery

The Wade-Davis Bill

sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

suffrage.

In the South during the last twenty years of the 19th century

textile manufacturing increased ninefold

In the South during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century,

textile manufacturing increased ninefold.

The election of 1876 saw

the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected

The elections of 1876 saw

the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B Wells devoted her writing to attacking

the crime of lynching

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking

the crime of lynching.