Chapter 21 Flashcards
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to
O create a system of justice for ex-slaves.
O guarantee freedom for the blacks.
O ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.
O prevent blacks from becoming sharecroppers.
O prevent interracial sex and marriage.
ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.
Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted Congress to seck passage of
O articles of impeachment against Johnson.
O the Fourteenth Amendment.
O an extension of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
O an act to overturn the Black Codes.
O the Thirteenth Amendment.
the Fourteenth Amendment
The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open in February 1866 was
O the South’s regaining control of the Senate.
O the creation of the sharecropping system.
O passage of the Pacific Railroad Act.
O Johnson’s veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen’s Bureau.
O the attempt to pass the Fourteenth Amendment.
Johnson’s veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln’s ticket as vice president in his second term
O to appeal to Union soldiers and radical Republicans.
O as a safe choice in case Lincoln died in office.
O as a poor white who balanced Lincoln’s aristocratic background.
O because Lincoln’s first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, had displayed Southern sympathies.
O to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners.
to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners.
All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson except
O fears of creating a politically destabilizing and uncertain period of time in the nation.
O President Johnson promised to obstruct some of the Republican policies in return for remaining in office.
O concern about the high-tariff, soft-money, and pro-labor views of radical Republican Benjamin Wade who would become president if President Johnson were convicted by the Senate.
O opposition to abusing the constitutional system of checks and balances.
President Johnson promised to obstruct some of the Republican policies in return for remaining in office.
For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states’ quick restoration to the Union was that
O a high tariff might be reinstituted.
O None of these choices are correct.
O With the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics and Democrats could possibly regain control of Congress in President Johnson would likely be defeated in the 1868 presidential election.
O the majority white South might be represented by black Congressmen.
With the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics and Democrats could possibly regain control of Congress in President Johnson would likely be defeated in the 1868 presidential election.
In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised
O severe punishment of Southern political and military leaders.
O former slaves the right to vote.
O a plan that could not possibly lead to congressional fears of the re-enslavement of Southern blacks. the restoration of the planter aristocracy to political power.
O rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union.
rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union.
In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedmen’s Bureau was
a flawed but necessary agency.
O acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
O a potential source of Republican patronage jobs.
O a meddlesome federal agency in the South that should be killed.
O a tolerable compromise with the radical Congress.
a meddlesome federal agency in the South that should be killed.
Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because they
O contained restrictions on ex-Confederates but not on male supremacists.
O failed to define what constituted equal national citizenship.
O gave white women but not black women the right to vote.
O failed to give women the right to serve on juries.
O gave national citizenship rights and voting rights to African-American males but not to white or black women.
gave national citizenship rights and voting rights to African-American males but not to white or black women.
President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction
O abolished literacy tests for voting in the South.
O aimed at swift restoration of the Southern states after a few moderate political conditions were met by the Southern states.
O guaranteed former slaves the right to vote.
O required that all former Confederate states ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
O differed radically from Lincoln’s.
aimed at swift restoration of the Southern states after a few moderate political conditions were met by the Southern states.
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as
O a movement for openly protesting northern oppression.
O an open political organization seeking to revive the Confederacy
O a civic reform and service organization.
O a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means.
O the military arm of the southern Democratic party.
a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means.
The political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
O that a Congressional majority believed that the South had never legally left the Union.
O President Lincoln’s desire for a harsh Reconstruction plan.
O the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction.
O the close ties that were developing between President Lincoln and the Democrats over Reconstruction issues.
the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction.
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
O the last federal troops were removed in 1877 and a “solid” Democratic South became politically institutionalized.
O blacks showed they could defend their civil rights adequately in state courts and legislatures without federal congressional and military intervention.
O President Johnson was not reelected in 1868.
O the Supreme Court ruled in Ex parte Milligan that military tribunals could not try civilians.
O the South accepted the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
the last federal troops were removed in 1877 and a “solid” Democratic South became politically institutionalized.
Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to
O educate them on their civic duties and campaign for Republican candidates.
O help them escape to the North during the Civil War.
O provide them with relief payments until the Freedmen’s Bureau was established.
O gain admittance to the Union Army.
O None of these choices are correct.
educate them on their civic duties and campaign for Republican candidates.
Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of
O preventing blacks from migrating to the West or North.
O driving the Union Army out of the South.
O intimidating blacks and undermining them politically.
O keeping white carpetbaggers from voting.
O destroying the Freedmen’s Bureau.
intimidating blacks and undermining them politically.
