Chapter 16 Quiz Questions Flashcards
In the Reconstruction South, African-Americans were an influential voice in
implementing the reforms of the Republican Party.
The Tenure of Office Act attempted to
weaken the powers of the president.
In the early years of Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau was successful at
reducing black illiteracy by roughly 20 percent.
After the Civil War, many Southern blacks
migrated to Southern cities.
The significant outcome of the presidential election of 1876 was that it
marked an end of the federal government’s commitment to Reconstruction reforms.
The Fifteenth Amendment
guaranteed the right of American men to vote.
How was the disputed election of 1876 settled and decided?
by the Compromise of 1877.
Southern Democrats who called their victories in the elections of 1876 “Redemption,” portrayed themselves as the
saviors of the South from the injustices of Republican rule.
What is the correct order of presidential succession?
Johnson, Grant, Hayes
Which statement about black voters in the South during Reconstruction is not true?
The Democratic Party benefited from the increase in black voters.
The Southern Homestead Act
gave black people preferential access to public lands in five Southern states.
General Sherman’s Field Order No. 15 gave hope to blacks because it
set aside plots of Southern land for distribution.
“Scientific racism” was characterized in the 1870s by all of the following ideas except
the belief that blacks and immigrants controlled both houses of the U.S. Congress.
All of the following statements about sharecropping are true except
only blacks were relegated to existence as sharecroppers.
Legacies of Reconstruction in the South included all of the following except
breaking the rigid social hierarchy that existed among Southern whites.
Southern Democrats realized they could regain their dominance of local power by
manipulating racial tensions.
White southerners used the term “carpetbaggers” to describe
powerful Northerners who lived in the South.
Which statement about the Fourteenth Amendment is not true?
It guaranteed all males the right to vote.
Many Southerners refused to accept their defeat as divine judgment and believed that God had spared the South for a greater purpose; they came to view the war as
the Lost Cause.
In the post-Reconstruction period
blacks in the South were relegated to second-class citizenship.
