Exam 14: The Union Reconstructed

Three ________, passed by Congress during the Grant administration, helped to protect voters from violence or fraud.

In the Memphis race riot of 1866, Union soldiers firmly defended blacks against attacks by whites.

Because of the loyalty of their former slaves, southern whites had little fear that the freedpeople would try to take revenge on southern white people.

In the House of Representatives, ________ led the opposition to President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.

The primary reason for the Democrats' return to power was violence.

The ________ Amendment guaranteed civil rights for blacks.

Democratic governments created the South's first public school systems.

During the Reconstruction Era, poor black southerners

Class divisions among blacks in Louisiana helped to end Reconstruction there.

President Johnson vetoed Reconstruction Acts, hindered the work of the Freedman's Bureau, and undermined congressional Reconstruction efforts in many other ways.

Republicans increased taxes and state debts in the South during Reconstruction.

At the end of the Civil War, the newly freed slaves often demonstrated their independence by changing their behavior toward whites.

After the Civil War, southern state governments attempted to reestablish white dominance by passing the ________.

When the Allstons returned to their plantation at the end of the Civil War, they were unable to regain control of their property from the freed slaves.

Democrats called their victory in Louisiana, "________."

In 1869, two ________ met in Utah, linking the Atlantic and the Pacific for the first time.

The one person Congress imprisoned as a result of the Civil War was ________.

By the 1880s, African American school attendance had decreased from 40 to 5 percent.

In the period after the Civil War, most rural southern blacks became either tenants or ________.

The Democratic party in Mississippi used a special program known as the ________ Plan to thwart Republican rule in the state.