HST 202 Chapter 17

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into an occupied territory under military command.

Almost all of the blacks elected to the United States House and Senate during Reconstruction

Carpetbaggers held a disproportionate number of high political offices in southern state governments during Reconstruction.

Andrew Johnson privately characterized his meeting with Frederick Douglass in hateful and racist language.

The Tenure of Office Act

Which of the following is characteristic of the post-Civil War southern labor system?

The Fourteenth Amendment did all of the following except

The Fourteenth Amendment did all of the following:

Andrew Johnson's National Union Party included all of the following except

Andrew Johnson's National Union Party included all of the following:

The dramatic rise in political corruption in the post-Civil War era was triggered by​

Newly enfranchised freedmen learned about their rights and responsibilities as voters​ through

By the mid-1870s, northern Americans had grown increasingly

The Panic of 1873 was primarily caused by which industry?

During the 1866 congressional election campaign, Republicans made clear that any ex-Confederate state that ratified the Fourteenth Amendment would be considered "reconstructed" and that its representatives and senators would be seated in Congress.

The ones pushing for more reforms in the South in favor of African Americans were the

Most Southern Republicans were poor, illiterate, and property less; most Northern Republicans represented the most prosperous, educated, and influential elements of society.

The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan was to

The Wade-Davis Bill granted the franchise to black Americans

Radical Republicans in Congress initially believed that Andrew Johnson would support their program.

All of the following were part of the Fourteenth Amendment except it

Abolitionist and missionary groups sent teachers into the Union-occupied South to educate freed slaves during the Civil War.

The main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

Andrew Johnson advised Southern legislatures to accept the Fourteenth Amendment.

Andrew Johnson got along well with Congress.

Under the Johnson Reconstruction Plan, no ex-Confederate state gave blacks the right to vote.

In regard to civil rights, the Fourteenth Amendment

The majority of southern Republican voters were

The main issue addressed by the 15th Amendment was

Scalawags were

Under the U.S. Constitution, impeachment by the House removes an official from office.

Carpetbaggers were southerners who served Republican Reconstruction governments.

Ulysses S. Grant depended on this group for his presidential victory in 1868.

One of the major political scandals of the Grant presidency involved

People in the North regarded the Fifteenth Amendment as resolving the last of the great issues of the war

Nearly all freed slaves continued to work for their former owners after the war.

The chief target of civil service reform was the spoils system.

Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1877?

The idea of redistributing plantation land to freedmen was tried first by

One of Grant's major problems as president was that he put too much trust in people under him.

The mid-term Congressional election of 1866 revealed

The main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to

Southern whites regarded "Carpetbaggers" as

Blacks held a majority of public political offices in several southern states during Reconstruction.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave states the option of enfranchising black males or losing seats in Congress.

The Compromise of 1877 signified

Ulysses S. Grant's presidency is known as an era of

The Wade-Davis bill proposed lenient loyalty requirements for Southern whites.

Samuel Tilden was probably the real victor in the disputed election of 1876.

Which of the following is not true of black political activity during Reconstruction?

Moderate Republicans believed that black men should participate to some degree in the reconstruction process.

The purpose of the "black codes" was to

The Fourteenth Amendment dealt only with awarding the franchise to African Americans.

Abraham Lincoln never encouraged freed people to emigrate to all-black countries like Haiti.

The term "bayonet rule" refers to

Blacks held office in many states throughout the South in numbers far exceeding their proportion of the population.

The strategy known as the "Mississippi Plan" aimed to do all of the following except

The strategy known as the "Mississippi Plan" aimed to do all of the following

Andrew Johnson was openly critical of the southern planter class.

Politicians at all levels universally embraced civil service reform.

The Ku Klux Klan was created by former Confederate soldiers.

In the 1870s and 1880s the U.S. Supreme Court