HIST2620 Chapter 15

"Waving the bloody shirt" referred to:

According to the petition from the freedmen to President Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangering freedom?

After the Civil War, many ex-slaves traveled throughout the South. What was the reality for these ex-slaves?

After the Civil War, some ex-slaves walked hundreds of miles in search of family members.

After the Civil War, which territory became the first to allow women to vote?

Andrew Johnson:

Anything less than ________ would betray the Civil War's meaning, black spokesmen insisted.

As part of the Bargain of 1877, President Grant appointed a southerner to his cabinet.

Because of land redistribution, the vast majority of rural freedmen and freedwomen prospered during Reconstruction.

Black ministers during the Reconstruction played a major role in politics, holding some 250 public offices.

Black officeholders during Reconstruction:

Black suffrage made little difference in the South, as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during Reconstruction.

By examining Reconstruction from 1863 to 1877, what conclusion can be drawn?

By the mid-1870s, white farmers were cultivating as much as 80 percent of the region's cotton crop.

Compared to rebels in the rest of world history's civil wars, the rebels of the defeated Confederacy were treated very harshly.

Despite the Fourteenth Amendment, which group was still being denied United States citizenship?

During Reconstruction, southern cities:

During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community:

During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone who supported a woman's right to vote:

Economic growth in the South was stronger in rural areas than in urban centers like Atlanta.

For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant:

For the 1868 Democratic presidential ticket, Horatio Seymour and Francis Blair Jr. had a campaign motto of:

General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order 15:

Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black:

How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln?

How did Frederick Douglass see the post-Civil War South?

How did Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy?

How did The Agitator, a women's rights journal, go beyond suffrage?

How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

How did the Civil War affect planter families?

How did the Reconstruction amendments change the role of government?

Howard University is well known as:

If a man from Maine came to live in the South as a teacher, what would he most likely be labeled as?

In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the ________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.

In Mississippi in 1875, white rifle clubs drilled in public and openly assaulted and murdered Republicans.

In the 1870s, who claimed to have saved the white South from the corruption of northern and black officials?

In what way was Reconstruction policy a success?

James Pike's The Prostrate State was in support of the black Republican governments in the South during Reconstruction.

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been:

Northern investors were more likely to invest in the West than in the South.

Opponents of Radical Reconstruction could not accept the idea of former slaves voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.

Radical Republicans:

Right after the Civil War, ex-slaves did not care about the right to vote.

Sharecropping:True False

Southern Republicans during Reconstruction:

Thaddeus Stevens's most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to the South.

The 1868 presidential election saw Ulysses S. Grant defeating Horatio Seymour.

The 1873 depression strengthened the North's resolve to ensure the success of Reconstruction, since the depression really hurt the South's farmers, highlighting the need for reform in the region.

The Bargain of 1877:

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866:

The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to:

The Fifteenth Amendment:

The Fourteenth Amendment:

The Freedmen's Bureau resembled some government social policies that would be used during the Great Depression.

The Freedmen's Bureau:

The Ku Klux Klan was an organization of the lower classes of the South—those who felt left out of white society.

The Liberal Republican movement in 1872:

The Prostrate State depicts:

The Reconstruction amendments toppled the ideals of what Supreme Court decision?

The Senate, following the House's impeachment vote, removed Andrew Johnson from office.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that:

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1873 case in which Myra Bradwell challenged an Illinois statute excluding women from practicing law:

The Whiskey Ring scandal took place during the administration of:

The Wyoming territorial government granted suffrage to women because they thought it would attract more female settlers.

The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place in ________ in 1873, where armed whites killed hundreds of former slaves, including fifty militia members who had surrendered.

The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the:

The crop-lien system:

The election of 1876:

The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction?

The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans' aims was

The southern Black Codes:

Through analyzing the "Sharecropping Contract," what can be determined?

Unlike Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone favored the Fifteenth Amendment.

What benefit did Abraham Lincoln see in having Andrew Johnson on his ticket?

What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War?

What did Andrew Johnson focus on with his Reconstruction plan?

What did the ex-slaves see as key to improving their condition?

What did the freedmen request in their "Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" in 1865?

What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?

What made the Burlingame Treaty unique?

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

What was the northern vision for the Reconstruction-era southern economy?

When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he:

When analyzing the election of 1876, what conclusion can be drawn?

When assessing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, what can be determined about this issue?

When the Union was restored by 1870, the southern states had Democratic majorities.

Which denominations had the largest followings among blacks after the Civil War?

Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?

While Republicans were in power in the South, they established the region's first state-supported public schools.

White farmers in the late nineteenth-century South:

White southern Democrats considered scalawags traitors to both their party and their race.

Who referred to the amendments of Reconstruction as a "great Constitutional revolution"?

Why did Mark Twain call Anson Burlingame "a citizen of the world"?

Why specifically did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan fail?

Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?

With the beginning of Radical Reconstruction, southern African-Americans in the late 1860s and early 1870s took direct action to remedy long-standing grievances. These actions included:

With the end of slavery in the British Caribbean, more than 100,000 laborers came from where to fill the labor shortage?

With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, all people born in the United States were automatically citizens.