American History Exam 4
According to the Constitution, which branch of government is responsible for readmitting states that have seceded from the Union?
The constitution does not address this question
Which of the following describe Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, which he announced in December 1863?
Its specific that a states could return to the union when 10% of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union
How was the Wade- Davis Bill of 1864 different from Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
Its stipulated that new southern government could be reformed only by those who had not fought against the north in the civil war
How did Abraham Lincoln responded to the Wade Davis Bill in 1864?
He did not sign it, he open talk with key congressional representatives to find a compromise solution
Southern whites responded to the end of slavery by enacting
Under President Johnson's restoration plan, high-ranking Confederate leaders and wealthy southerners
Conserve as delegates to conventions that were called to consider ratification of the 13th amendment
Which of the following statements describes the Freedom's Bureau, which originated in 1865?
Created by congress, it help ex-slaves adjust to freedom and secure their basic civil rights
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
Asserted that all former slaves would receive equal protection under the law
Why did president Johnson veto the Freedmen's Bureau law and Civil Rights Act in 1866?
He held racist sentiments and was concerned the bills pushed the nation toward too much centralization.
Which of the events spurred Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act in April 1866?
The eruption of anti- black violence in various parts of the south
Which of the following scenarios took place in the federal government immediately after Congress passed the Civil Rights in April 1866?
Republicans introduced an amendment declaring that all person born or naturalized in the US were citizens; 14th
Which are the following statements describes Radical Reconstruction?
It aimed to reform the south and increase federal power
Which of the following was the final outcome of the congressional campaigns and election of 1866?
Johnson suffered a humiliating defeat and republican gain a 3 to 1 margin in congress
Which of the following pairs identified with the Radical Republicans?
Charles Sumner; Thaddeus Stevens
Which of the following was the official reason congress cited for impeaching Andrew Johnson?
He infringed on the powers of congress, he was impeached for "High crimes and misdeameanors" including several violations of the Tenure of Office Act
Which of the following statements characterized the congressional impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
Radical republican failed to removed Johnson from office but they damaged his power and authority
What was the outcomes of the 1868 election?
Republican won the presidency and retained their 2/3rd majority in both houses
Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment
Forbids states from denying an citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, and previous condition of a slaves
Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
The civil rights acts of 1866 allowed former enslaves people full access to the courts
Through which of the following practices did southerns avoid giving former slaves the right to vote?
Why was it necessary to add the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitutions following the Civil War?
The Constitution had condoned slavery and allowed states to set up voting requirements
Which of these reforms originates with the Grant Administration?
Securing the rights to vote for all male citizens regardless of race
Which of the following was Elizabeth Cady Stanton's response to the denial of women's suffrage while freedmen and immigrant men were being enfranchised?
Made a racist attack on an uneducated black man who could vote while educated white women could not
Granting suffrage to African American males caused
A split in the women's movement
Which of the following statements characteristics the women's suffrage movement after the Civil War?
Most suffragist agreed that they should concentrate on securing voting rights for African American man as a means to press for the same rights for all women
Expecting freedom from slavery near the end of Civil War, most African Americans were eager to
Vote and secure land for economic independence
Which of the following statements describes the resettlement of former slaves in the South?
Under Johnson's amnesty ex confederate were allowed to recover their land and freed man were force to work for them or leave
Why were many congressional leaders unwilling to consider breaking up plantations and distributing plots for independence farms to freed slaves?
They hoped to restore cotton cultivation and the export of American cotton
Which of these statements describes the status of African American women in the Reconstruction- era South?
Freed women valued their new rights to marry legally and their opportunity to create a stable family life
Many African American sharecroppers became trapped in a vicious cycle of debt after the Civil War mainly because
They could not pay the high prices and interest that whites charged as the price of cotton declined in the 1870s
Which statement describes the sharecropping system that emerged to replace slavery in the South after the Civil War?
Most share croppers believed it was preferable to a wage labor system
Which of the following groups composed the largest percentage of registered voters in Alabama and Mississippi in the late 1860s?
Some southerners used the term scalawags to describe
Southerns who supported the process of reconstruction
During Reconstruction, why was southern Democrats' dismissal of black politicians as ignorant field hands misguided?
Many had been free artisans and tradesmen
Those who participated in the creation and implementation of Radical Reconstruction intended to
Create a new south with full equality and without racism, rebuild South in the Norths image
Southern Republican state Reconstruction government pursued which of the following goals?
Expanding the legal or married women, ending the sharecropping system
A secret organization that functioned as the grassroots wing of Radical Republicanism in the South was called the
The Republication state Reconstruction governments in the South made significant and long- lasting achievements in
One critical flaw of southern Reconstruction governments was their
Support of the convict leasing system
Which of the following became critical community institutions for African Americans throughout the South during Reconstruction?
Why was the Civil Rights Acts of 1875 significant?
The legislation was the last congressional effort to address civil rights until the 1960s
Which politician's death marked the waning of Radical Reconstruction?
In the 1872 presidential election, the still disorganized Democratic Party
Allied with the reform minded liberal republicans
Ex- Confederates who sought to return political and economic control of the south to white southerners after the Civil War were known as
What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1866?
To use an means to damage the republicans government of Tenessee
In the Reconstruction South, the Klu Klux Klan was
Often indistinguishable from the democratic party
Reconstruction ended in 1877 because
The North lost interest in the cause
Why did Republicans nominate Rutherford B. Hayes for President in 1876?
He had won a reputation for honesty and appeared to be safe from the charges for cooruption
Which of the following statements describes the election of 1876?
The democratic candidate won the popular vote, but the republican official in three southern states certified republican victories, sending two sets of electoral votes to congress
Why was the election of 1876 significant?
The outcomes was determined by electoral commission established by congress |