Chapter 15 - U.S History

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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


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