Chapter 12 Review

Question 1

A law that gave Black males the right to vote.

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 2

Started by Congress to assist former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing food and giving an education.

Accepted Answer

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 3

His presidency was plagued with scandal and corruption.

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 4

A 5 year economic depression.

Accepted Answer

Panic of 1873

Question 5

Andrew Johnson

Accepted Answer

succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president

Question 6

A law that provided the Constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act.

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

Question 7

Who was the Congressional leader of the Radical Republicans.

Accepted Answer

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 8

Why did the federal government eventually send troops into the South?

Accepted Answer

To limit violence and voter intimidation against Blacks

Question 9

Scalawags were white Southerners who joined the Republican Party.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction and ensured the Republican candidate would win the 1876 election.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

He was the first Black Senator from Mississippi.

Accepted Answer

Hiram Revels

Question 12

He was the Secretary of War who was fired by Andrew Johnson.

Accepted Answer

Edwin Stanton

Question 13

A Republican candidate who didn't win the popular vote, but won the 1876 election.

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 14

What Democrat&#x27;s called their return to power in the South.

Accepted Answer

redemption

Question 15

A Union General who promised freed slaves who followed his army, 40 acres and and mule.

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Question 16

Carpetbaggers are southerners that moved to the North looking for work.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

The President who favored a 10% plan for Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 18

What did the passing of the 14th Amendment give a constitutional basis for?

Accepted Answer

the Civil Rights Act of 1866

Question 19

A Democratic candidate who won the popular vote, but lost the 1876 election.

Accepted Answer

Samuel J. Tilden

Question 20

What did the Compromise of 1877 signal an end to?

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Question 21

Who did the Radical Republicans believe should be in charge of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

the Legislative Branch

Question 22

The Wade-Davis Bill was a law that made the President in charge of Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

He was a New York Tribune editor who ran against Grant in 1872.

Accepted Answer

Horace Greeley

Question 24

When Reconstruction began, which group of Americans living in the South supported the Democrat's?

Accepted Answer

wealthy landowners

Question 25

Radical Republicans wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

A sharecropper had to give a share of their crop to the landowner.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

What idea does a state government that is run without federal intervention illustrate?

Accepted Answer

home rule

Question 28

What does the 15th Amendment guarantee?

Accepted Answer

No male can be kept from voting because of race, color, former enslavement

Question 29

Who was Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish?

Accepted Answer

Confederate leaders

Question 30

Thaddeus Stevens

Accepted Answer

was a leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives

Question 31

Black codes where laws that restricted the lives of Blacks.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Reconstruction was a period of industrial growth in America from 1865-1877.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

Home rule is southern Democrats long-desired goal of running their state governments without federal intervention.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Impeach means to fire a public official from their office.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 35

A tenant farmer rented land from owners and kept their harvest.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

During reconstruction, to whom was the system of sharecropping least beneficial?

Accepted Answer

sharecroppers

Question 37

After the Civil War, why did new Republican governments in the South have problems?

Accepted Answer

Because white Southerners refused to accept equal rights for Blacks

Chapter 12 Review

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Chapter 12 Review

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