chapter 15

  1. What was one of the most significant accomplishments of state constitutional conventions during Reconstruction?
    Public School System

  2. How did freedpeople view education during Reconstruction?
    They put a great emphasis on it bc they viewed it as a way of freedom

  3. Which religious denomination experienced the fastest growth in the post-emancipation South?
    Baptists

  4. What was the primary concern of women's rights leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton during Reconstruction?
    Political rights

  5. What was the Mississippi Plan?
    A wave of violence designed to intimidate Black activists and suppress Black voters

  6. What was the Compromise of 1877?
    It ended Reconstruction in the South with the removal of Federal Troops in the South and the North got Rutherford B Hayes as president after a contested election.

  7. How many African American men served in offices ranging from local positions to U.S. senators by the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
    More than 2,000

  8. What was Mound Bayou, Mississippi?
    A Delta town established in 1887 by Isaiah Montgomery and Ben Green, an all black settlement

  9. Which of the following was a major form of racial violence during Reconstruction?
    Riots against Black political authority, interpersonal fights, and organized vigilante groups

  10. In what year was the Ku Klux Klan organized?
    1866

  11. What was the primary economic system that replaced slavery in the post-war South?
    Sharecropping

  12. What did the Enforcement Acts of 1870-1871 accomplish?
    Made it criminal to deprive African Americans of their civil rights

  13. How did the Depression of 1873 affect Reconstruction efforts?
    Economic issues supplanted Reconstruction as the foremost issue on the national agenda, Shifting National Focus and southern economic devastation

  14. Which statement best describes the overall outcome of Reconstruction by 1877?
    Withdrawal of federal troops, allowing white Democrats to regain control and inauguration the Jim Crow era

  15. How did the Fourteenth Amendment introduce a significant change to the Constitution?
    Federal government's willingness to enforce the Bill of Rights over the authority of the states

  16. What was the New Departure strategy used by women's suffragists?
    Argued that the U.S. Constitution already guaranteed women the right to vote

  17. What were Ladies' Memorial Associations primarily responsible for during Reconstruction?
    Southern women led the efforts to bury and memorialize the dead

  18. What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
    Redistribute lands to formerly enslaved people that had been abandoned and confiscated by the federal government

  19. Which amendment legally abolished slavery throughout the United States?
    13th Amendment

  20. What were Black Codes?
    Southern states passed restrictive laws
    Limited freedoms and rights of freedman
    Enforced labor contracts and curfews

  21. President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan required that what percentage of a state's voting population take an oath of allegiance before loyal governments could be established?
    10% of a states voting population

  22. How did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan differ from Lincoln's approach?
    Andrew Johnson's plan differed from Abraham Lincoln's approach primarily through his leniency toward wealthy Confederates, his refusal to protect freedpeople, and his demand that the South void its Confederate debts

  23. Which of the following was NOT a requirement for southern states to rejoin the Union under the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
    10% allegiance pledge

  24. What was the primary goal of General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15?
    Land in Georgia and South Carolina was to be set aside as a homestead for the freedpeople

  25. Which two African Americans served as U.S. senators from Mississippi during Reconstruction?
    Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce