Deck 15: Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Question 1

President Johnson's plan to restore the Union closely resembled Lincoln's.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

As president,Andrew Johnson

A)favored complete legal equality for freedmen and freedwomen.
B)worked closely with the Radical Republican Congress.
C)believed in the goal of Reconstruction.
D)was prejudiced and combative.
E)wished to elevate wealthy southerners to positions of power in his government.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Many southern state legislatures reacted to the new rights given to the freedmen by

A)accepting them.
B)establishing "black codes" to stifle them
C)refusing to write new constitutions
D)attempting to nullify the acts of Congress that created them
E)withdrawing their delegations from Washington,D.C. ,in protest

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The Fifteenth Amendment freed the slaves.

Question 5

Waving "the bloody shirt" meant referring to the Civil War and the southern rebellion in order to discredit political opponents.

Question 6

Several southerners during the time of Reconstruction attempted to ____ their former slaves in an attempt to maintain control of them.

A)contract
B)hold the families hostage of
C)establish a trust with
D)ignore
E)intimidate

Question 7

After the House of Representatives impeached President Johnson,the Senate failed to convict him by just one vote.

Question 8

Democrats generally favored "sound" or "hard" monetary policies.

Question 9

The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the validity of Confederate debts.

Question 10

Which answer best explains the fall of the plantation during Reconstruction as a viable economic entity of the South?

A)Union troops had destroyed many of them during the Civil War.
B)They were abolished as an institution when the Radicals took over Congress.
C)Once a state was emancipated,its ready pool of workers disappeared.
D)Due to the death toll during the war,there were not enough able-bodied men to work the fields once the war had ended.
E)Cotton prices fell after the war due to increased competition from England.

Question 11

Immediately after the end of the Civil War,many freedmen

A)sought out lost family members.
B)engaged in terroristic attacks against their former owners.
C)refused to work.
D)immigrated to the North.
E)began to negotiate their contracts with plantation owners in the area.

Question 12

Scalawags were generally Republicans native to the South who had opposed secession.

Question 13

This was created to assist the newly freed slaves in acclimating to their new status.

A)Ku Klux Klan
B)The Knights of the Golden Circle
C)African American churches
D)The Freedmen's Bureau
E)Congressional Reconstruction

Question 14

In the Compromise of 1877,Republicans promised to withdraw federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.

Question 15

The South emerged from the Civil War with a strong,diversified economy.

Question 16

Abraham Lincoln

A)supported the Wade-Davis Bill.
B)was a Radical Republican.
C)wanted to punish the South once the Civil War ended.
D)wished to reduce presidential authority in the postwar period.
E)ultimately stated that southern states had never left the Union.

Question 17

Which answer explains a problem the federal government had with implementing the Emancipation Proclamation after the Civil War?

A)It implied that freedmen would be eligible for citizenship,but that was a state right.
B)It forced equality between African Americans and Anglos in all aspects of society
C)It called for each former slave to be given a section of land that had to be taken from someone else.
D)It applied only to the northern states.
E)The Supreme Court overruled it in its Dred Scott decision.

Question 18

The most popular religious denomination among blacks in the postwar South was Baptist.

Question 19

Despite winning the popular vote in 1876,Samuel Tilden lost the presidency.

Question 20

The Freedmen's Bureau was tremendously successful in protecting and assisting former slaves.

Question 21

What were the major problems facing the nation in April 1865? What factors stood in the way of a solution to those problems?

Question 22

The presidency of Republican Ulysses S.Grant was characterized by

A)extreme competency and cooperation with the Democrats.
B)scandals at the highest ranks of national government.
C)bipartisanship and financial stability.
D)continuous and committed effort to end racial violence.
E)skilled handling of the debt crisis.

Question 23

Which statement best describes the desires of Radical Republicans in the postwar period?

A)Radical Republicans wished for a quick and lenient Reconstruction plan for the South.
B)Radical Republicans believed that southern states had never actually left the Union and no plan was needed.
C)Radical Republicans wished to punish the South and lift up newly freed men and women.
D)Radical Republicans trusted the returning Democratic politicians unconditionally.
E)Radical Republicans believed that the president should make all decisions regarding Reconstructions.

Question 24

After the Compromise of 1877

A)segregation became common in the South.
B)blacks saw major economic gains everywhere.
C)freedmen came to political power in all southern states.
D)the South wished to forgive and forget regarding the Civil War.
E)the South recovered quickly.

Question 25

During Reconstruction,paper money

A)was favored by all Americans over hard currency.
B)was called greenbacks.
C)was the preferred method of repayment for creditors.
D)was discontinued.
E)was also referred to as sound money.

Question 26

As a result of the Civil War,American politics was radically changed.Who benefited from these changes?

A)Federal power increased,as did the influence of industrialists.
B)State power grew to its highest levels.
C)Southern planters regained economic and political status lost during the war.
D)Freedmen enjoyed tremendous political freedom in the years immediately following the war's end.
E)White women were allowed a pivotal place in national politics.

Question 27

The Ku Klux Klan's official creation was to protect the South from all but

A)freedmen.
B)scalawags.
C)carpetbaggers.
D)ex-Confederates.
E)Union soldiers.

Question 28

The Fifteenth Amendment

A)gave women suffrage.
B)gave Native Americans the right to vote.
C)provided for universal manhood suffrage.
D)outraged Radical Republicans.
E)was easily accepted by Americans.

Question 29

The Fourteenth Amendment

A)protected black male suffrage.
B)made it clear blacks were citizens.
C)gave states more power.
D)was not important.
E)was obeyed in all southern states.

Question 30

Congressional Reconstruction

A)achieved all of its intended goals.
B)was neither truly radical nor truly reconstruction.
C)created true racial equality.
D)was put forward by the Democratic Party.
E)dramatically transformed the South.

Question 31

Due to Reconstruction in the South,this group would travel to the area to fill the vacancies in the state governments for which their own citizens were forbidden.

A)Scalawags
B)Yankees
C)Carpetbaggers
D)Redeemers
E)Bourbons

Question 32

Which president played the greatest role in ensuring that freedmen were protected during Reconstruction?

A)Lincoln
B)Johnson
C)Grant
D)Hayes
E)Taft

Question 33

During Grant's presidency,Republicans

A)were hopeful and politically involved.
B)sought to separate the races
C)were tired of corruption and incompetence.
D)wanted to expand the president's powers.
E)were united in their goals.

Question 34

What did not play a role in the development of Reconstruction in the South?

A)Lincoln's assassination
B)The election of 1864
C)The veto of the Wade-Davis Bill
D)The creation of the Ku Klux Klan to protect Southerners from the federal government and the freedmen
E)The creation of the Freedmen's Bureau

Question 35

What was a major setback for freedmen trying to obtain their own land during Reconstruction?

A)Very little land was available to purchase.
B)They were allowed to purchase land in only designated areas.
C)There were very few banks in the South to give them loans.
D)State law forbid them from owning land.
E)They did not have an understanding of what it took to run a farm,and many lost their land to foreclosure.

Question 36

The Compromise of 1877

A)placed the Republicans in a strong political position.
B)helped freedmen.
C)made Tilden president.
D)angered all Americans.
E)removed federal troops from the South and left freedmen vulnerable.

Question 37

What role did the election of 1866 play in shaping Reconstruction?

A)It gave the Radical Republicans a veto-proof majority in Congress.
B)It gave the Liberal Republicans a veto-proof majority in Congress.
C)It saw the first African American Representative elected to Congress.
D)It showed that the North had grown weary of the problems in the South.
E)It gave President Johnson a free hand in running Reconstruction.

Question 38

After the Civil War,many African American communities began to establish

A)cooperative associations to assist them in shared duties.
B)schools to educate their children.
C)banks to assist in loans to African Americans.
D)general stores to provide formerly forbidden goods.
E)hospitals.

Question 39

At the end of Reconstruction

A)blacks and whites were economically equal.
B)blacks and whites were socially equal.
C)blacks were in a better position legally and slavery had ended.
D)there were no changes for blacks as a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
E)blacks had been elevated above whites.

Question 40

What did not influence the North's desire to see Reconstruction ended in the late 1870s?

A)The rise of the Liberal Republicans in Congress
B)The increase in violence in the South by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
C)The scandals of the Grant administration
D)The work of white supremacists to defeat black and Republican morale for it
E)The continued successes in the growth of literacy of African Americans

Question 41

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Henry Ward Beecher

Question 42

What problems did blacks in the South face after emancipation? What attempts did the government make to solve those problems?

Question 43

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Andrew Johnson

Question 44

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Samuel J.Tilden

Question 45

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Pinckney B.S.Pinchback

Question 46

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Horace Greeley

Question 47

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Edwin M.Stanton

Question 48

What were the major economic issues between 1868 and 1876? How did those economic issues affect Reconstruction?

Question 49

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Alexander H.Stephens

Question 50

How was the contested election of 1876 decided? Describe the political,racial,and sectional effects of the decision.

Question 51

Explain the three Reconstruction Era amendments (the Thirteenth,Fourteenth,and Fifteenth amendments).What changes were made with each amendment,and why were those changes needed?

Question 52

Describe the reign of white terror during Reconstruction and how Congress reacted to the violence.

Question 53

Describe the plans for Reconstruction offered by Abraham Lincoln,Andrew Johnson,and Congress.What was the goal of each plan? How did each plan propose to accomplish its goal?

Question 54

Discuss the impeachment of President Johnson.What was the basis of the charges,and how did impeachment end?

Question 55

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Hiram Revels

Question 56

MATCHING
Match each person with one of these descriptions.
a.Was elected lieutenant governor of Louisiana
b.Was a senator from Massachusetts,a leading Radical Republican
c.Was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867
d.Was a black Mississippi native elected to the Senate
e.Was a prominent northern minister who preached sectional reconciliation
f.Was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1876
g.Opposed Grant in 1872 presidential election
h.Was the former vice president of the Confederacy elected to the U.S.Senate representing Georgia in 1865
i.Said treason "must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished"
Charles Sumner