Chapter 13 test

Question 1

After the Civil War, the South experienced all of the following

Answer 1

1. Destruction to railroad lines and bridges
2. Loss of homes and barns
3. Spread of disease, especially in cities

Question 2

In 1863 President Lincoln issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction which

Answer 2

Offered a full pardon to southerners who swore allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and accepted federal laws on slavery

Question 3

Wade Davis Bill

Answer 3

Legislation calling for a majority of white males in former Confederate states to take a loyalty oath

Question 4

President Johnson treated the former members of the Confederacy nicely by giving them

Answer 4

A blanket pardon except Confederate office holders and the richest planters

Question 5

Black codes

Answer 5

Restrictions that limited the freedom of African Americans that attempted to reestablish white control of black labor

Question 6

After Reconstruction

Answer 6

African Americans were deprived of their rights and had few economic opportunities

Question 7

After the Civil War Moderates and Radical Republicans were

Answer 7

Divided over land reforms and African American suffrage

Question 8

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Answer 8

Brought moderate and Radical Republicans together after its veto by President Johnson

Question 9

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 9

Required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans

Question 10

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 10

Elected President in 1866 because African American vote

Question 11

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 11

Guaranteed the right to vote cannot be denied because of race

Question 12

After the Civil War African Americans

Answer 12

Increased their participation in politics to protect their rights

Question 13

Scalawags

Answer 13

Label given to white southerners who supported reconstruction

Question 14

Reconstruction legislatures helped make states governments more democratic by doing the following

Answer 14

1. Guaranteeing white and African American men the right to vote
2. Eliminating property requirements for holders of public offices
3. Abolishing property qualifications for jurors

Question 15

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 15

Secret terrorist group formed to prevent African Americans from voting

Question 16

Northern Republicans’ commitment to Reconstruction lessened in part because

Answer 16

They faced economic issues caused by labor demands

Question 17

Southern landowners adopted sharecropping and the crop-lien system in part to

Answer 17

Avoid paying workers with cash

Question 18

Jim Crow laws

Answer 18

Legislation designed to enforce segregation

Question 19

In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled that

Answer 19

“Separate but equal” facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 20

Ida Wells-Barnett

Answer 20

Journalist who openly protested the lynching of African Americans