Reconstruction Quiz 9.21.15 Flashcards
As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as
A champion of poor whites
Andrew Johnson was named Lincoln’s second-term Vice President because
He would politically attract War Democrats and pro-Union southerners
In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedman’s Bureau was
A meddlesome agency that should be killed
For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following EXCEPT
That large numbers would move north
In 1865, Southern
Blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity
In the postwar South
The economy was utterly devastated
The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that
After brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868
The greatest achievements of the Freedman’s Bureau were in
Education
The white South viewed the Freedman’s Bureau as
A meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance
Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War
Came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy
The “Exodusters” westward mass migration to Kansas finally faltered when
Steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi
At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners
Still believed that their view of secession was correct
President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction
Aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met
The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately re admitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was
Tennessee
The main purpose of the Black Codes was to
Ensure a stable and subservient labor supply
In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised
Rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union
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 Freedman’s Bureau
In the 1866 congressional elections
Voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction
That the Southern states were “conquered provinces” that had completely left the Union and were therefor at the mercy of Congress for readmission was the view of
Congressional Republicans
“Radical regimes”
The radical legislatures passed much desirable legislation and introduce many badly needed reforms
The Fourteenth Amendment
Prohibited ex-Confederate leaders from holding public office
The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was
Johnson’s “class-based” policies that favored poor whites
For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern state’s quick restoration to the Union was that
With the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics
The Black Codes provided for all of the following EXCEPT
Voting by blacks
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
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed
Citizenship and civil rights for freed slaves
Which one of the following is LEAST related to the other three?
A. Freedmen
B. Scalawags
C. Ku Klux Klan
D. Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Johnson EXCEPT
A. Concern about the person who would become President
B. Fears of creating a destabilizing period
C. Opposition to an using the Constitutional system of checks and balances
D. Johnson promised to step down as President
D
Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that
Freed slaves must be granted the right to vote
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
During Restoration, African American women assumed new political roles which included all of the following except
A. Monitoring state constitutional conventions
B. Participating in political rallies
C. Voting
D. Participating in black church life
C
Many feminist leaders were especially disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it
Specified for the first time in the Constitution that only makes could vote
Radical congressional Reconstruction in the South ended when
The last federal troops were removed in 1877
Political corruption during Restoration was
Common in both North and South
Radical Reconstruction state governments
Passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms
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
A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was
White resentment of the ability and success of black legislators
Reconstruction might have been more successful if
Thaddeus Stevens’s radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted
In 1867 Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration’s greatest success in foreign relations when he
Purchased Alaska from Russia
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
