Deck 14: The Union Reconstructed

Question 1

During the Reconstruction Era, poor black southerners

A) generally embraced an emotional and revivalistic religion.
B) effectively combined with poor blacks to achieve political control of the southern state governments.
C) tended to accept the blacks as their social equals.
D) escaped from the tenant farming system.

Answer 1

generally embraced an emotional and revivalistic religion.

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

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

Answer 3

True

Question 4

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.

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

The ________ Amendment guaranteed civil rights for blacks.

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

Democrats called their victory in Louisiana, "________."

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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