African American ch. 11-14

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

300

Under the terms of Special Field Order #15, each black family received 40 acres of land and

An mule

Battery Wagner guarded the entrance to the __________ Harbor.

Charleston

Why was Homer A. Plessy chosen to test the Louisiana train segregation law?

He had very light skin.

Which of the following is true of segregation?

It evolved gradually in the decades following the Civil War.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment accomplish?

It guaranteed all people born or naturalized in the U.S. the rights of citizenship.

Which of the following was true of the unions decision to enlist black soldiers

It was assumed that they would serve in segregated units.

Which of the following was true of the 1890 Mississippi constitutional convention?

Its purpose was to disfranchise black voters.

The Enforcement Acts were passed in direct response to

Kkk's violence towards African Americans and white Republicans

What was done to help quell the violence that broke out in the south in the immediate aftermath of the civil war?

Little effort was made to stop the violence.

What movement did W. D. Bois hold to challenge Booker T.Washington?

Niagara Movement

Lincoln believed that ________was more important than any other war objective.

Perseveration of the Union

Radical Republicans focused on _____?

Reconstruction

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

Reconstruction in the south

Which of the following made the implementation of Radical Reconstruction possible?

Republican victories in the 1866 congressional election

Soon after the war, Andrew Johnson

Revoked special order 15 and appointed southern governors

Who won the popular vote in the election of 1876?

Samuel Tilden

Hiram Revels was elected _______in Mississippi

Senator

Plessy v Ferguson required

Separate but equal facilities for black people and white people

The outcome of the election of 1876 centered on the resolution of disputed outcomes in Florida, Louisiana, and

South Carolina

Throughout the late nineteenth century, ____ sought to eliminate black political power.

Southern Democrats

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

Tens of thousands of slaves liberated themselves.

By 1875, white Democrats had regained authority in

The south

What eventually happened to the First South Carolina Volunteers?

They were mostly disbanded after the congress failed to appropriate money for them and later regrouped and included into the United States Army.

Booker T. Washington encouraged black people to __________?

To get a skill or trade

Where was the Klan most active and violent?

York County, South Carolina

The 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act provided funds for

agricultural and mechanical colleges

Fifteenth Amendment

amendment that guaranteed voting rights to Black men

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

compensated emancipation

The overall purpose of the black codes was

create a racial hierarchy as close to slavery as possible

During Reconstruction, Republicans

created statewide systems of public education

The 1865 southern constitutional conventions

denied black people political and civil rights

The confederates refused to

draft for the purpose of enlarging their army.

The central purpose of segregation was to

enforce black subordination

In order to disfranchise black voters, white leaders needed to find a way around the __________ Amendment.

fifteenth

The Militia act of 1862

law that allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union military

After the Civil War, most former slaves

organized their own churches

The voting requirements adopted by the Mississippi constitutional convention included

poll tax

What was the main purpose of freedmen's Bureau?

provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education for both black and white refugees in the south.

From the point of view of state governments, a key benefit of the convict lease system was that it

provided the state with revenue

Lincoln was determined to avoid __________.

provoking Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri into leaving the Union

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

set out to find family members who had been sold

What was the intent of General order 11?

to protect black soldiers from Confederate abuse

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


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