Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

A major failure of the Fifteenth Amendment was that it

allowed for loopholes like literacy tests and poll taxes, which were utilized to disenfranchise black voters.

Which of the following contributed to the “Collapse of Reconstruction”?

the white backlash against "negro misrule" and paramilitary terrorist atrocities against freed peoples.

The Thirteenth Amendment, permanently abolishing slavery, was

officially ratified in 1865 with support from southern states.

When Vice President Andrew Johnson became president (after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln), Johnson

gave blanket amnesty and pardons to Southerners who took up arms against the Union.

The end of Reconstruction and the Northern retreat from racial equality was the

presidential election of 1876

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Lincoln,

was part of a larger plot to murder Union leaders and continue the Confederate fight

Which pair of words best describes President Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan (the ten percent plan)?

forgiving and tolerant

Union Leagues were

formed by African American men to disseminate information, mediate between black and white communities, and politically organize black voters.

Southern state and local governments enacted Black Codes

to control black labor and re-institutionalize white supremacy

Chapter 16, Figure 16.3 (b) highlights

President Abraham Lincoln's priority of reunifying the North and the South.

Which Constitutional amendment was ratified during the Reconstruction era?

Fourteenth Amendment establishing that all persons born in the United States are citizens and that States could not "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . "

What was the response of Congress to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan?

Congress passed a series of laws called the Enforcement Acts with the purpose of ensuring free and fair elections, expanding federal power to prosecute crimes against freed people, and allowing the president to impose martial law.

Which of the following statements is accurate regarding African American families during the Reconstruction era?

African Americans went to great lengths to reunite with separated family members.

What happened with the Compromise of 1877?

The Federal government withdrew troops from southern states and Southern Democrats secured more funding for infrastructure improvements.

Radical Republicans with Congressional Reconstruction, pushed for

a more egalitarian society and led the ratification for the Fifteenth Amendment

African American men in the South voted and ran for political office, winning election to

hundreds of local and state offices and Congress, including two U.S. senators, Blanche Bruce and Hiram Revels.

Both Whiskey Ring and Crédit Mobilier were scandals that rocked my administration, I was not involved, but my personal secretary and my vice-president were implicated.  Who am I?

Ulysses S. Grant

Chapter 16, Figure 16.15 illustrates what?

the plight of African Americans in the wake of the Colfax Massacre.

Republican state governments in the Reconstruction era were credited with

establishing public schools for both black and white children

An accomplishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau was

helping freed people obtain labor contracts, a major step away from slavery and a free-labor system

Republicans in Congress took over Reconstruction in 1867 and took which of the following actions?

implemented martial law with Union generals in charge.

The Invisible Empire of the South or Ku Klux Klan oversaw a campaign of murder, violence and terror against

freed people, carpetbaggers, and scalawags

Which of the following reinforced white supremacy and increased the economic gap between blacks and whites?

Crop-lien system and sharecropping

After the Civil War, the U.S. adopted universal manhood suffrage, which greatly disappointed women’s rights advocates and led

to the formation of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and eventually women's suffrage in the early 20^th century.

I am the failed Democratic presidential candidate of 1876. A Congressional committee gave the presidency to my Republican opponent in the Compromise of 1877. Who am I?

Samuel Tilden

Which constitutional amendment conferred birthright citizenship and “equal protection under the law”?

Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV)