American History Chapter 15

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Which statement best describes the origins of sharecropping?

The South was short of capital, and landowners found it easier to pay workers in kind, rather than in cash.

How many southern states had met the requirements of congressional Reconstruction by the election of 1868?

7

Historians today recognize all of the following as reasons for the collapse of Reconstruction, EXCEPT:

A lack of commitment to the cause among freed blacks.

What was a carpetbagger?

A northern-born white Republican living in the South

What happened with the bill to extend the life of the Freedman's Bureau?

Congress passed it, President Johnson vetoed it, and Congress overrode the veto.

In the presidential election of 1876

Democrats and Republicans claimed victory.

What did the end of slavery force southerners of both races to do?

Develop new social, economic, and political patterns

Why did President Grant refuse to use federal troops to combat the violence of the Mississippi Plan?

He feared intervention in the South would hurt Republican candidates in the North.

What specific act did the House of Representatives cite in its attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson?

He removed Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act.

In the election of 1872, the Democrats nominated

Horace Greeley.

Which of the following is not an important aspect of the Fourteenth Amendment?

It gave African Americans the right to vote.

Which statement regarding the Fifteenth Amendment is most accurate?

It prohibits states from using race as a qualification for voting.

What stopped the Freedman's Bureau from distributing land to former slaves?

President Johnson ordered confiscated land returned to its former owners.

Congress refused to seat delegates from southern states in 1865 because

Republicans did not believe the new southern state governments were committed to protecting the freed people.

All of the following were common expressions of freedom for African Americans in the South, EXCEPT:

The emigration to Africa.

What pushed Congress to create the Military Reconstruction Act?

The fear that the Fourteenth Amendment might be defeated

Why did Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton object to the Fourteenth Amendment?

The word "male" was in the Constitution in connection with voting rights.

All of the following statements about Ku Klux Klan are accurate, EXCEPT:

Their practice of terror suggests that Klan members themselves felt extremely powerful in local politics.

How did most white southerners view Johnson and his plan for Reconstruction?

They viewed him as their protector.

What did the Redeemers promise?

To destroy black Reconstruction

Lincoln's "Ten-Percent Plan" promised

a full pardon and restoration of rights to those who swore loyalty to the Union.

The Thirteenth Amendment

abolished slavery.

After 1869, several leading southern Democrats changed tactics and

accepted black suffrage.

Radical Republicans

believed that free labor was central to the dynamism of Northern society and economy.

The very first institutions that African Americans fully controlled were

churches

The Mississippi Plan of 1875

drove Republicans from power by violence.

The Compromise of 1877

ended northern attempts to protect Republican governments in the South.

The effort to impeach and remove President Andrew Johnson

failed by one vote.

When it came to public education, many African Americans

favored racially integrated schools.

The typical Republican voter in the South during Reconstruction was a

former slave.

Radical Republicans believed that creating an economy based on free labor in the South would

further democracy in the region.

General Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15

gave black families 40 acres of farmland and an army mule.

With regard to Reconstruction, northern Democrats

had always opposed it.

President Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on the grounds that

it violated states' rights.

A common way for the freed people to express their freedom was to

move around.

Black Republicans

often braved considerable personal danger by participating in Southern politics.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibited discrimination in

public accommodations.

The Fourteenth Amendment

requires that states uphold the principle of equality before the law.

The Black Codes passed by southern legislatures in late 1865 and 1866

restricted African Americans' economic opportunities.

Historians of the United States did not begin to reconsider their interpretation of Reconstruction until the

the 1950s and 1960s.

Many scalawags joined the Republicans because

they wanted to wrest power from the planter elites.

Political corruption during Reconstruction

was part of a national pattern.

Andrew Johnson

was the only southern senator who rejected the Confederacy.

The boom in railroad building during the 1870s led to

widespread political corruption.


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