Chapter 16 Reconstruction

Question 1

By the time President Grant took office, southern resistance to Reconstruction efforts had:

Answer 1

turned violent.

Question 2

Southern Democrats agreed to the Compromise of 1877 because it:

Answer 2

ensured that the last federal troops would be withdrawn from the South.

Question 3

The Compromise of 1877:

Answer 3

ended Reconstruction.

Question 4

President Johnson fully broke with Congress in 1866 when he:

Answer 4

vetoed the Civil Rights Act.

Question 5

The Freedmen’s Bureau’s tasks included what 4 things?

Answer 5

distributing food, setting up schools, negotiating labor contracts, and providing medical care

Question 6

T or F: Waving “the bloody shirt” meant referring to the Civil War and the southern rebellion in order to discredit political opponents.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

T or F: After the House of Representatives impeached President Johnson, the Senate failed to convict him by just one vote.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Under Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction:

Answer 8

10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.

Question 9

The most significant enduring legacy of Reconstruction was the:

Answer 9

passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

Question 10

Emancipation had what impact on the South?

Answer 10

It left the South’s agricultural economy in disarray.

Question 11

T or F: The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the validity of Confederate debts.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

When the votes were first counted in the 1876 presidential election:

Answer 12

no candidate had an electoral college majority.

Question 13

Why was Johnson picked as Lincoln’s running mate in 1864?

Answer 13

As a gesture of unity, they combined to create a National Union ticket.

Question 14

T or F: The Liberal Republicans opposed Grant.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

What issue did the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates largely agree on during the 1876 campaign?

Answer 15

relaxing federal authority in the South

Question 16

Congressional Republicans wrote the Wade-Davis Manifesto to:

Answer 16

protest Lincoln’s veto of the Wade-Davis Bill and accuse Lincoln of exceeding his constitutional authority.

Question 17

Most carpetbaggers were:

Answer 17

Union veterans.

Question 18

Johnson’s Proclamation of Amnesty excluded:

Answer 18

everybody with taxable property worth more than $20,000.

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

e. it ended slavery.

Question 20

What happened after the end of Reconstruction?

Answer 20

The protections of black civil rights crumbled under the pressure of restored white rule and unfavorable Supreme Court decisions.

Question 21

T or F: The Fifteenth Amendment freed the slaves.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

In response to the Klan, President Grant:

Answer 22

tried to protect black rights.

Question 23

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.

Answer 23

b. several African Americans were elected as governors.

Question 24

Why did the Radical-led Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

Answer 24

It was a response to the black codes and the neo-slavery system created by unrepentant southern legislatures.

Question 25

Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act when he:

Answer 25

tried to remove one of his cabinet members without Senate permission.