Exam 15: Reconstruction and the New South

As president, Rutherford B.Hayes

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as

President Abraham Lincoln's "ten percent" plan for the South referred to

State expenditures by Southern governments during Reconstruction were large, but only in comparison with the meager state budgets of the pre-Civil War years.

The "redeemed" governments of the South

In what ways did Reconstruction succeed? In what ways did it fail? What has been its legacy?

The Supreme Court generally struck down civil rights laws and upheld black voting rights in the late nineteenth century.

In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

After the Civil War was over, African Americans responded by separating themselves from white institutions.

The "New South creed" was expounded by whites, not blacks.

Ida B.Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ______________ in the late nineteenth-century South.

Many of the so-called scalawags were former Southern ___________.

Leaders of the Confederacy were found to have aided John Wilkes Booth to carry out the plan to assassinate President Lincoln.

In 1896 the Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" in matters of race relations was constitutional in the case of __________ v._____________.

Grant played a leadership role among the "Liberal Republicans."

Why has the presidency of Andrew Johnson generally been considered a failure by historians?

The Alabama claims

During Reconstruction, Southern African-American officeholders