Chapter 16 Reconstruction Flashcards
By the time President Grant took office, southern resistance to Reconstruction efforts had:
turned violent.
Southern Democrats agreed to the Compromise of 1877 because it:
ensured that the last federal troops would be withdrawn from the South.
The Compromise of 1877:
ended Reconstruction.
President Johnson fully broke with Congress in 1866 when he:
vetoed the Civil Rights Act.
The Freedmen’s Bureau’s tasks included what 4 things?
distributing food, setting up schools, negotiating labor contracts, and providing medical care
T or F: Waving “the bloody shirt” meant referring to the Civil War and the southern rebellion in order to discredit political opponents.
True
T or F: After the House of Representatives impeached President Johnson, the Senate failed to convict him by just one vote.
True
Under Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction:
10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
The most significant enduring legacy of Reconstruction was the:
passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
Emancipation had what impact on the South?
It left the South’s agricultural economy in disarray.
T or F: The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the validity of Confederate debts.
False
When the votes were first counted in the 1876 presidential election:
no candidate had an electoral college majority.
Why was Johnson picked as Lincoln’s running mate in 1864?
As a gesture of unity, they combined to create a National Union ticket.
T or F: The Liberal Republicans opposed Grant.
True
What issue did the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates largely agree on during the 1876 campaign?
relaxing federal authority in the South
Congressional Republicans wrote the Wade-Davis Manifesto to:
protest Lincoln’s veto of the Wade-Davis Bill and accuse Lincoln of exceeding his constitutional authority.
Most carpetbaggers were:
Union veterans.
Johnson’s Proclamation of Amnesty excluded:
everybody with taxable property worth more than $20,000.
All of the following statements about the Fifteenth Amendment are true, EXCEPT that:
a. Congress rescinded Georgia’s readmission and insisted it ratify the amendment before regaining its readmission.
b. Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia ratified it before being readmitted.
c. Kentucky did not ratify it.
d. it forbade the states to deny any person the vote on grounds of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
e. it ended slavery.
e. it ended slavery.
What happened after the end of Reconstruction?
The protections of black civil rights crumbled under the pressure of restored white rule and unfavorable Supreme Court decisions.
T or F: The Fifteenth Amendment freed the slaves.
False
In response to the Klan, President Grant:
tried to protect black rights.
All of the following is true about the involvement of African Americans in the political arena during Reconstruction, EXCEPT that:
a. their lack of education and inexperience in politics put them at a disadvantage.
b. several African Americans were elected as governors.
c. within a few years of the end of the Civil War, former slaves were voting in large numbers.
d. in the new state governments, African American participation was a novelty.
e. few African Americans served as judges.
b. several African Americans were elected as governors.
Why did the Radical-led Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
It was a response to the black codes and the neo-slavery system created by unrepentant southern legislatures.
Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act when he:
tried to remove one of his cabinet members without Senate permission.
