GIVE ME LIBERTY QUIZ ANSWERS
If a man from Maine came to live in the South as a teacher, what would he most likely be labeled?
A carpetbagger.
What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?
A man from a state that had seceded was now president.
When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?
Both Congress and the president accused the other of unconstitutional acts.
The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place in ________ in 1873, where armed whites killed hundreds of former slaves, including fifty militia members who had surrendered.
Colfax, Louisiana,
The Reconstruction amendments toppled the ideals of what Supreme Court decision?
Dred Scott v. Stanford.
What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War?
He returned it to the original owners.
What benefit did Republicans see in having Andrew Johnson run as Abraham Lincoln's vice president in 1864?
Lincoln's party hoped to build a Republican base in the South.
In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the ________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.
Reconstruction Act
How did Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy?
The nation's first African-American colleges were established.
According to the petition from the freedmen to President Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangering freedom?
They tried to limit economic opportunity.
By examining Reconstruction from 1863 to 1877, what conclusion can be drawn?
With three different government plans, it was one of the most complex time periods in American history.
The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?
Women were excluded from the suffrage amendment.
Howard University is well known as:
a black university in Washington, D.C.
The Civil Rights Bill of 1866:
defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1873 case in which Myra Bradwell challenged an Illinois statute excluding women from practicing law:
demonstrated that, while racial definitions of freedom were changing, gendered ones still existed.
During Reconstruction, southern cities:
enjoyed newfound prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the North.
Southern Republicans during Reconstruction:
established the South's first state-supported schools.
Anything less than ________ would betray the Civil War's meaning, black spokesmen insisted.
full citizenship
The election of 1876:
had both parties claiming they won Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
The Liberal Republican movement in 1872:
initially had little to do with Reconstruction but encouraged opposition to Grant's policies in the South.
The crop-lien system:
kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
The Freedmen's Bureau:
made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care.
The Fourteenth Amendment:
marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that:
most rights of citizens were under the control of state governments rather than the federal government.
The Fifteenth Amendment:
sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.
