HIST 2020 QUIZ 1 (CH. 15+16)

If a man from Maine came to live in the South as a teacher, what would he most likely be labeled as?

A carpetbagger

How did the Civil War affect planter families?

For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor.

What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?

He allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act

What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War?

He returned it to the original owners

How did the Reconstruction amendments change the role of government?

It set the stage for the federal government to be the protector of individual freedoms

Which denominations had the largest followings among blacks after the Civil War?

Methodist and Baptist

Through analyzing the "Sharecropping Contract," in the Voices of Freedom section, what can be determined?

The contract was a type of economic slavery

How did Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy?

The nation's first African-American colleges were established.

For the 1868 Democratic presidential ticket, Horatio Seymour and Francis Blair Jr. had a campaign motto of:

This Is A White Man's Country. Let White Men Rule

Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black

U.S. senators

How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln?

When making decisions, Johnson was more stubborn and less willing to compromise than Lincoln

After the Civil War, which territory became the first to allow women to vote?

Wyoming

"Waving the bloody shirt" referred to

a Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason

The southern Black Codes

allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts

The Social Gospel

called for an equalization of wealth and power.

The Grange was an organization that

established cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output

In "How the Other Half Lives," Jacob Riis

focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums.

The Fourteenth Amendment

marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.

The Indian victory at the Little Bighorn

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

The Fifteenth Amendment

sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.

The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to

stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan

The second industrial revolution was marked by

the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries.

Bonanza farms

typically had thousands of acres of land or more.

The Ghost Dance

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.

The Knights of Labor

was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms.