Chapter 22 Flashcards
Which amendments were the civil war amendments?
13, 14, 15
The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was
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
to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners
Despite opposition and ridicule, Secretary of State Seward was able to persuade the Congress to purchase Alaska partly because
Russia had been the European power most friendly to the Union during the Civil War
At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners
still believed that their view of succession was correct and their cause was just
A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was
white resentment of the ability and success of black legislators
In the 1866 congressional elections
voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction
President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction
aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met
John was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges because
it was finally recognized that the charges were dubious and political
In 1865, Southern
blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to
ensure a stable and subservient labor supply
The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was
Tennessee
John’s veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted Congress to seek passage of
the 14 amendment
The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his
dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act
In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedmen’s Bureau was
a meddlesome agency that should be killed
To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that
the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War
As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)
champion of the poor whites
In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised
rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
the last federal troops were removed in 1877
For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states’ quick restoration to the Union was that
with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics
In 1867, Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration’s greatest success in foreign relations when he
purchased Alaska from Russia
Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because they
gave equal rights to African American males but not to women
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed
citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves
Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War
came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy
Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of
intimidating blacks and undermining them politically
___ believed that the Southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, “conquered provinces” that had to seek readmission on whatever terms Congress demanded.
Congressional Republicans
The greatest achievements of the freedmen’s Bureau were in
education
In the postwar South
the economy and social structure was utterly devastated
Which one of the following is least related to the other four?
Ku Klux Klan
The 14 amendment
prohibited ex-Confederate leaders from holding public office
The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as
a secret terrorist organization
hich of the following was not among the functions provided by the black Union League?
helping blacks migrate from the South to the North
the last of the reconstruction amendments to pass was the
15
The white South viewed the Freedmen’s Bureau as
a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white radical dominance
Reconstruction might have been more successful if
Thaddeus Steven’s radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted
The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that
after brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868
The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was
Johnson’s “soft” treatment of the white South
Many feminist leaders were especially disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it
specified for the first time in the Constitution that only males could vote
Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that
freed slaves must be granted the right to vote
Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to
educate them on their civic duties
