Chapter 22

Question 1

Which amendments were the civil war amendments?

Answer 1

13, 14, 15

Question 2

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was

Answer 2

Johnson’s veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 3

Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln’s ticket as vice president in his second term

Answer 3

to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners

Question 4

Despite opposition and ridicule, Secretary of State Seward was able to persuade the Congress to purchase Alaska partly because

Answer 4

Russia had been the European power most friendly to the Union during the Civil War

Question 5

At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners

Answer 5

still believed that their view of succession was correct and their cause was just

Question 6

A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was

Answer 6

white resentment of the ability and success of black legislators

Question 7

In the 1866 congressional elections

Answer 7

voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction

Question 8

President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction

Answer 8

aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met

Question 9

John was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges because

Answer 9

it was finally recognized that the charges were dubious and political

Question 10

In 1865, Southern

Answer 10

blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity

Question 11

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

Answer 11

ensure a stable and subservient labor supply

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Tennessee

Question 13

John’s veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted Congress to seek passage of

Answer 13

the 14 amendment

Question 14

The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

Answer 14

dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act

Question 15

In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedmen’s Bureau was

Answer 15

a meddlesome agency that should be killed

Question 16

To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that

Answer 16

the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War

Question 17

As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)

Answer 17

champion of the poor whites

Question 18

In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

Answer 18

rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union

Question 19

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when

Answer 19

the last federal troops were removed in 1877

Question 20

For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states’ quick restoration to the Union was that

Answer 20

with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics

Question 21

In 1867, Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration’s greatest success in foreign relations when he

Answer 21

purchased Alaska from Russia

Question 22

Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because they

Answer 22

gave equal rights to African American males but not to women

Question 23

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

Answer 23

citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves

Question 24

Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War

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came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy

Question 25

Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

Answer 25

intimidating blacks and undermining them politically

Question 26

___ 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.

Answer 26

Congressional Republicans

Question 27

The greatest achievements of the freedmen’s Bureau were in

Answer 27

education

Question 28

In the postwar South

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the economy and social structure was utterly devastated

Question 29

Which one of the following is least related to the other four?

Answer 29

Ku Klux Klan

Question 30

The 14 amendment

Answer 30

prohibited ex-Confederate leaders from holding public office

Question 31

The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated

Answer 31

the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress

Question 32

The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as

Answer 32

a secret terrorist organization

Question 33

hich of the following was not among the functions provided by the black Union League?

Answer 33

helping blacks migrate from the South to the North

Question 34

the last of the reconstruction amendments to pass was the

Answer 34

15

Question 35

The white South viewed the Freedmen’s Bureau as

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a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white radical dominance

Question 36

Reconstruction might have been more successful if

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Thaddeus Steven’s radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted

Question 37

The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that

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after brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868

Question 38

The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was

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Johnson’s “soft” treatment of the white South

Question 39

Many feminist leaders were especially disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it

Answer 39

specified for the first time in the Constitution that only males could vote

Question 40

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

Answer 40

freed slaves must be granted the right to vote

Question 41

Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to

Answer 41

educate them on their civic duties