OpenStax US history Chapter 18

What was Lincoln’s primary goal immediately following the Civil War?

reunifying the country

In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were most concerned with ________.

barring ex-Confederates from political office

What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment? How was it different from the Emancipation Proclamation?

The Thirteenth Amendment officially and permanently banned the institution of slavery in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation had freed only those slaves in rebellious states, leaving many slaves—most notably, those in the border states—in bondage; furthermore, it did not alter or prohibit the institution of slavery in general.

Which of the following was not one of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

collecting taxes

Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Radical Republicans in Congress

What was the goal of the black codes?

The black codes in southern states had the goal of keeping blacks impoverished and in debt. Black codes outlawed vagrancy and required all black men to have an annual labor contract, which gave southern states an excuse to arrest those who failed to meet these requirements and put them to hard labor.

Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the following did former Confederate states not need to do in order to rejoin the Union?

pass the Fifteenth Amendment

The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over

the Tenure of Office Act

What were the benefits and drawbacks of the Fifteenth Amendment?

The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to all black men, giving freed slaves and free blacks greater political power than they had ever had in the United States. Blacks in former Confederate states elected a handful of black U.S. congressmen and a great many black local and state leaders who instituted ambitious reform and modernization projects in the South. However, the Fifteenth Amendment continued to exclude women from voting. Women continued to fight for suffrage through the NWSA and AWSA

Which of the following is not one of the methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate blacks and white sympathizers?

petitioning Congress

Which of the following was the term southerners used for a white southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?

redeemer

Why was it difficult for southern free blacks to gain economic independence after the Civil War?

Southern blacks emerged from slavery with no money to begin their new lives, so they had to rely on the crop-lien and sharecropping systems . These systems enabled free people to get tools and rent land to farm, but the high interest rate (paid in harvested crops) made it difficult for them to rise out of poverty.