Deck 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and Redemption, 1863-1896

Question 1

​Samuel Tilden,Democratic candidate for president in 1876,was the governor of

A)Massachusetts.
B)New York.
C)​New Jersey.
D)​Illinois.
E)​Pennsylvania.

Answer 1

New York.

Question 2

What federal agency was formed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to freedom? ​

A)Freedmen's Bureau
B)Department of Education
C)​African American Rights Association
D)​NAACP

Answer 2

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 3

What was the most significant result of the 1876 election? ​

A)In effect,an end to Reconstruction
B)A period of scandal-free government
C)​The election of the first Democratic president since the 1850s
D)​An easing of racial tensions in the South
E)​A return to "normalcy" across the United States

Answer 3

In effect,an end to Reconstruction

Question 4

In the segregated South,blacks were subjected to ​

A)segregated railroad cars and public facilities.
B)literacy test requirements designed to keep them from voting.
C)​lynching and other forms of violence.
D)​poll tax requirements designed to keep them from voting.
E)​All of the above.

Question 5

Which of these did not occur during the Civil War? ​

A)Lincoln's proposed 10% plan
B)The Thirteenth Amendment
C)​The Wade-Davis Bill
D)​The Fourteenth Amendment

Question 6

Radical Reconstruction ​

A)Was the most lenient of all the Reconstruction programs 
B)Placed the South under military rule
C)​Sought to empower the president
D)​All of the above
E)​None of the above

Question 7

As president,which of the following did Ulysses S.Grant believe he should do? ​

A)Promote new programs
B)Administer the government
C)​Challenge Congress frequently
D)​Both A and C
E)​Both B and C

Question 8

The United States purchased Alaska from which nation? ​

A)Russia
B)Norway
C)​Britain
D)​France
E)​Spain

Question 9

When white southerners spoke of "redeeming" their region,they were referring to ​

A)retaking control of government.
B)preventing any further expansion of black rights.
C)​bringing a new sense of religious revival to a dispirited people.
D)​Both A and C
E)​Both A and B

Question 10

Which of the following events occurred before the end of the Civil War? ​

A)Congress approved the Fourteenth Amendment.
B)The Ku Klux Klan was founded.
C)​Congress created the Freedmen's Bureau.
D)​Congress started impeachment proceedings against Johnson.
E)​Both A and C

Question 11

What was the result of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment? ​

A)He was convicted and removed from office.
B)He was acquitted and so remained in office.
C)​The Senate voted to remove Secretary Stanton and allow the president to remain.
D)​Many Americans came to view the Senate as vindictive and petty.
E)​None of the above

Question 12

Which of the following is not a true statement about Congressional Reconstruction? ​

A)It was more lenient than Presidential Reconstruction 
B)It sought to punish the South for the war
C)​It advocated taking land from wealthy Confederates to give to former slaves
D)​It was led by Thaddeus Stevens

Question 13

What was the result of the 1872 election? ​

A)A decisive victory for Grant despite his administration's scandals
B)An end to Reconstruction in the South
C)​A defeat for the Democratic candidate,Horace Greeley
D)​Both A and C
E)​Both B and C

Question 14

Which of the following was a problem faced by the South after the Civil War? ​

A)Decimation of its forests with the growth of the lumber industry
B)Low wages in its few factories
C)​A lack of necessary capital for investment
D)​All of the above

Question 15

Andrew Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction proved surprising because

A)He granted thousands of pardons to wealthy former Confederates
B)He supported civil rights for former slaves
C)​He advocated for voting rights for blacks
D)​He promoted confiscation of land belonging to former slave owners to punish the South

Question 16

Southern states were able to increase their representation in U.S.Congress because ​

A)Presidential Reconstruction ended the three-fifths clause
B)Large numbers of northerners relocated there seeking to make a profit from Reconstruction programs
C)​They controlled the largest geographical region in the country
D)​Blacks voters could be persuaded or intimidated to vote as white southerners wanted

Question 17

The Fourteenth Amendment is significant because ​

A)It granted voting rights to all Americans
B)It outlined how and when southern states could be readmitted to the Union
C)​It was the first Constitutional amendment to include the word "male"
D)​It led to increased representation by the South in Congress

Question 18

​What was the primary cause of the Panic of 1873?

A)Large railroad companies failing
B)Inability of U.S.companies to compete with Britain's booming industries
C)​Excessive printing of paper money,which led to inflation
D)​Stock market manipulation that devastated the small investor
E)​None of these

Question 19

Which body decided the disputed election of 1876? ​

A)House of Representatives
B)Senate
C)​Both houses of Congress
D)​Supreme Court
E)​A special congressional commission

Question 20

What did the Crédit Mobilier scandal involve? ​

A)Manipulation of the stock market
B)Railroad building
C)​Bribery of congressmen
D)​All of the above

Question 21

Who became president of the United States after Lincoln's assassination? ​

A)Zachary Taylor
B)Franklin Pierce
C)​Ulysses S.Grant
D)​John Tyler
E)​Andrew Johnson

Question 22

Northern support for Reconstruction waned as northerners believed that the South would be better off when whites were dominant.​

Question 23

Lucy Stone and Alice Stone Blackwell fought for equal rights for women via the American Woman Suffrage Association ​

Question 24

What was the legacy of Reconstruction for most African Americans? ​

A)The full legal benefits of freedom
B)Discrimination and violence
C)​Landownership for the first time
D)​Admission to skilled factory jobs
E)​Economic security

Question 25

Horace Mann was a newspaper editor who made several unsuccessful runs for the presidency in the late 1800s ​

Question 26

The Ku Klux Klan Act attempted to protect rights of blacks by outlawing conspiracies and,in extreme instances,authorizing the use of military force ​

Question 27

Despite proactive moves by President Grant,the Republicans lost ground in the congressional elections of 1870.​

Question 28

The Panic of 1873 began with the failure of a bank affiliated with the Union Pacific Railroad.​

Question 29

In 1880,southern farmers produced between 5 and 6 million bales of cotton.​

Question 30

The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 gave the federal government the power to outlaw the Klan.​

Question 31

Crédit Mobilier was a company that was tied to a major scandal involving the federal government in corrupt practices ​

Question 32

Northerners largely approved of the black codes passed by the new state governments in the South to control former slaves ​

Question 33

For many newly freed blacks,the highest priority at the end of the war was ​

A)reuniting their families.
B)leaving the South.
C)​obtaining jobs.
D)​learning to read and write.
E)​creating their own churches.

Question 34

Ratified in 1870,the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution stated that suffrage could not be restricted because of "race,color,or previous condition of servitude" ​

Question 35

Redeemers saw as their mission saving the South from a disastrous foray into multiracial politics ​

Question 36

Women's suffragist Susan B.Anthony said that black and Asian men should be barred from voting unless women could vote ​

Question 37

The transcontinental railroad first opened in 1876,connecting the East coast of the United States with the West coast ​

Question 38

Rutherford B.Hayes was a New York governor who successfully ran for president against Samuel J.Tilden in 1876 ​

Question 39

The National Woman Suffrage Association rejected the Fifteenth Amendment ​

Question 40

The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress to oversee blacks' transition from slavery to freedom ​

Question 41

Scalawags were white northerners who went South during Reconstruction.​

Question 42

Sharecroppers who rented and worked farms owned by larger landowners were able to make a comfortable living after a few years ​

Question 43

Southerners used the poll tax to prevent blacks from voting ​

Question 44

The term "New South" refers to an effort to move the South into industrialization so it could advance economically ​

Question 45

Blacks dominated southern legislatures in the decade after the Civil War ​

Question 46

Black leader Booker T.Washington was sometimes accused of saying what whites wanted to hear ​

Question 47

In its 1896 decision in Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation ​