Civil War and Reconstruction- AAH

Border ruffians from __________ went to Kansas to increase the chances that Kansas would become a slave state.

Illinois

Which of the following events helps explain declining interest among northern white people in the problems of southern black people?

Panic of 1873

Who won the popular vote in the election of 1876?

Samuel Tilden

By the __________, sharecropping was the dominant agricultural system in the South.

1870s

Historically Black Colleges and Universities are predominantly black schools founded before

1964

The Confederates killed __________ black troops in the Fort Pillow Massacre.

300

In the aftermath of the Civil War, which of the following was the primary target of the wave of violence unleashed by white southerners?

African Americans

Which of the following was one of the questions Chief Justice Roger Taney sought to resolve in his decision in the Dred Scott case?

Could an African American sue in federal court?

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Which of the following is true of Nathan Bedford Forest?

He founded the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War.

Which best characterizes Frederick Douglass's reaction to Lincoln's election in 1860?

He thought Lincoln represented a step toward the abolition of slavery.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment accomplish?

It made all people born in the United States citizens.

Jourdon Anderson's letter to his former master demonstrated which of the following?

Masters and slaves often had very different ideas about their relationship.

Why did slave owners think a strong fugitive slave law was necessary in 1850?

Northern communities were increasingly unwilling to return escaped slaves.

Black delegates were a majority in which state's constitutional convention?

South Carolina

Which of the former Confederate states had the fewest black officeholders during Reconstruction?

Tennessee

Which of the following occurred shortly after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Tens of thousands of slaves liberated themselves.

What is the connection between the Ku Klux Klan and Reconstruction?

The Klan promoted violence in the interest of southern Democrats who ended Reconstruction.

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.

What did Harriet Tubman and Mary Elizabeth Bowser have in common?

They both spied for the Union.

How did free African Americans in the North respond to the outbreak of war?

They offered their service to the Union.

How did the men of the 54th Massachusetts protest race discrimination?

They said they would accept no pay unless it was equal to white men's pay.

What happened to the men that fought against the U.S. Marshals in the Battle of Christiana?

They went free.

Hiram Revels was elected __________ in Mississippi.

U.S. Senator

Under sharecropping, what did laborers receive in exchange for their work?

a portion of the crop

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

Once in office, Andrew Johnson __________.

blocked efforts to distribute land to freedmen

In early 1862, Lincoln sought to convince leaders in the border states to accept __________

compensated emancipation

The overall purpose of the black codes was to __________.

create a racial hierarchy as close to slavery as possible

Charlotte E. Ray was the first African-American woman to __________.

earn a law degree

Former slaves understood that __________ was inseparable from freedom.

education

The term "contraband" was used to refer to __________.

escaped slaves

1. What was John Brown's target in Harpers Ferry?

federal arsenal

The end of slavery revealed that most ex-slaves __________.

felt little loyalty to their former masters

Soon after the war, Andrew Johnson __________.

granted amnesty and pardons to most Confederates

The decision in the Dred Scott case __________.

intensified the conflict over slavery

What explains the fact that California was able to apply for statehood so quickly after becoming part of the United States?

population rose dramatically as a result of gold being found

Lincoln believed that ________ was more important than any other war objective.

preserving the Union

The Fifteenth Amendment __________.

protected the voting rights of black men

By the mid-1870s, many northern white Republicans had lost interest in __________.

rights of black people

Radical Republicans focused on __________.

securing voting rights for black men

As soon as slavery ended, many ex-slaves __________.

set out to find family members who had been sold

During Reconstruction, public schools in the South were __________.

strictly segregated

What was included in the Compromise of 1850 to appease southerners?

stronger fugitive slave laws

Uncle Tom's Cabin appealed to

the emotions of Northern readers

What was the purpose of the Wilmot Proviso?

to ban slavery and other forms of servitude from lands won from Mexico

What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

to help newly freed slaves transition to freedom

The Enforcement Acts were passed in direct response to __________.

white violence against African Americans and white Republicans

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