Chapter 15 - U.S History
Black sharecropping
was a very common occupation of former slaves
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 deigned to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority
Schuyler Colfax, Grant's vice president
was involved in a stock-fixing scandal
The Panic of 1873
was the nation's worst economic depression to that time
After Reconstruction, political power under southern "Redeemers"
was very often restricted and conservative
After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from
country stores
Advocates of the "New South"
promoted southern industry and railroad development
During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to
Southern white Republicans
During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern
education
During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired
Alaska
Northern commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of
All these answers are correct
As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex party Milligan, some Radical Republicans
proposed abolishing the Court
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment rial
Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote
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
During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were
Northern white veterans who moved to the South
As Republicans planned for Reconstruction
Radicals sought a range of punishment for white Southerners
At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was
about 3.5 million
In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he
all these answers are correct
In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" Booker T. Washington
called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation
In 1865, Southern whites defined "freedom" as
controlling their future without Northern interference
By the 1890's, voting percentages in the South had
decreased for both whites and blacks
In the 1860's Black Codes were
designed to give whites control over freedom
The Freedmen's Bureau
distributed food to millions of former slaves
In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system
encouraged the planting of cash crops
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
entered the White House with no political experience
Among other positions, Booker T. Washington
favored industrial over classical education
The 14th Amendment
gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States
Jim Crow laws
imposed a system of state-supported segregation
In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as
independence from white control
In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln
insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration
The Alabama claims
involved complaints by the United States against England
By the time Grant left office, Democrats had taken back control of the government in
most of the former Confederate states
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 a president, Andrew Johnson
offered some form of amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States
During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South
ownership by white declined and blacks increased
As a president, Rutherford B. Hayes
promised to serve only one term
The Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 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
In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction
required new state governments in the South with civilian leaders
During Reconstruction, per capita income for Southerners
rose for blacks and declined for whtie
By the end of Reconstruction
roughly half of all black women were working for wages
During the last quarter of the 19th century, southern agriculture
saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system
During Reconstruction, the black labor force worded
significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery
The Wade-Davis Bill
sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates
The 15th Amendment death with the issue of
suffrage
The election of 1876 saw
the candidate with the most popular votes vail to get elected
In the 1890's the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
the crime of lynching
In the South during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century
the southern share of national manufacturing doubled
During Reconstruction, Southern African American officeholders
underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South
