history 15 chapter

Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of

freedom

Most blacks were content working for wages and not owning their own land because they believed they had

not earned the right to just receive land from the government.

How did Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy?

The nation’s first African-American colleges were established

How did Frederick Douglass see the post-Civil War South?

Douglass wanted to ensure that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence became a reality for black

men, too

How did the Civil War affect planter families?

For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor

What did the ex-slaves see as key to improving their condition

Receiving free land

The crop-lien system:

kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.

What did the freedmen request in their “Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson”

in 1865?

The right to purchase a homestead.

What benefit did Republicans see in having Andrew Johnson run as Abraham Lincoln’s vice president in 1864?

Lincoln’s party hoped to build a Republican base in the South.

How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln?

When making decisions, Johnson was more stubborn and less willing to compromise than Lincoln.

The southern Black Codes

allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts

When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he:

contended that it gave too much authority to the states

In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the ______________, which created new

state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.

Reconstruction Act

Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?

Johnson’s lawyers assured moderate Republicans that he would behave for the rest of his term, so several

voted to acquit him.

The Reconstruction amendments toppled the ideals of what Supreme Court decision?

Dred Scott v. Stanford.

During Reconstruction, various feminists who supported a woman’s right to vote:

found themselves divided over whether to support the Fifteenth Amendment.

Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black

U.S. senators.

Most of those termed “scalawags” during Reconstruction had been

non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War

The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place in ______________ in 1873, where armed

Colfax, Louisiana

The Prostrate State depicts:

South Carolina under allegedly corrupt black rule during Reconstruction

The election of 1876

had both parties claiming they won Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana

The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the

Second Reconstruction.