HIST 2620 Chapter 15 | Verified with 100% Correct Answers

HIST 2620 Chapter 15 | Verified with 100% Correct Answers "Waving the bloody shirt" referred to: a Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason. According to the petition from the freedmen to President Andrew Johnson, how was the planter class endangering freedom? They tried to limit economic opportunity. After the Civil War, many ex-slaves traveled throughout the South. What was the reality for these ex-slaves? Large revivals of African-Americans, who had recently converted to Christianity, took place in the countryside. Many slaves were moving around in search of family members who had been sold. After the Civil War, some ex-slaves walked hundreds of miles in search of family members. True After the Civil War, which territory became the first to allow women to vote? Wyoming. Andrew Johnson: lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion. Anything less than ________ would betray the Civil War's meaning, black spokesmen insisted. full citizenship As part of the Bargain of 1877, President Grant appointed a southerner to his cabinet. False Because of land redistribution, the vast majority of rural freedmen and freedwomen prospered during Reconstruction. False Black ministers during the Reconstruction played a major role in politics, holding some 250 public offices. True Black officeholders during Reconstruction: helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens. Black suffrage made little difference in the South, as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during Reconstruction. false By examining Reconstruction from 1863 to 1877, what conclusion can be drawn? With three different government plans, it was one of the most complex time periods in American history. By the mid-1870s, white farmers were cultivating as much as 80 percent of the region's cotton crop. False Compared to rebels in the rest of world history's civil wars, the rebels of the defeated Confederacy were treated very harshly. False Despite the Fourteenth Amendment, which group was still being denied United States citizenship? Asians. During Reconstruction, southern cities: enjoyed newfound prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the North. During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community: was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches. During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone who supported a woman's right to vote: found themselves divided over whether or not to support the Fifteenth Amendment. Economic growth in the South was stronger in rural areas than in urban centers like Atlanta. False For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant: land ownership. For the 1868 Democratic presidential ticket, Horatio Seymour and Francis Blair Jr. had a campaign motto of: This Is a White Man's Country. Let White Men Rule. General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order 15: set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families. Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black: U.S. senators. How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln? When making decisions, Johnson was more stubborn and less willing to compromise than Lincoln. 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 Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy? The nation's first African-American colleges were established. How did The Agitator, a women's rights journal, go beyond suffrage? It openly discussed employment discrimination. How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family? The black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers. How did the Civil War affect planter families? For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor. How did the Reconstruction amendments change the role of government? The Supreme Court's role would be diminished. Howard University is well known as: a black university in Washington, D.C. If a man from Maine came to live in the South as a teacher, what would he most likely be labeled as? A carpetbagger. 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 In Mississippi in 1875, white rifle clubs drilled in public and openly assaulted and murdered Republicans. True In the 1870s, who claimed to have saved the white South from the corruption of northern and black officials? Redeemers. In what way was Reconstruction policy a success? It established an amendment promising equal protection for all. James Pike's The Prostrate State was in support of the black Republican governments in the South during Reconstruction. False Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been: non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War. Northern investors were more likely to invest in the West than in the South. True Opponents of Radical Reconstruction could not accept the idea of former slaves voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law. True Radical Republicans: fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War. Right after the Civil War, ex-slaves did not care about the right to vote. False Sharecropping: was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision). Southern Republicans during Reconstruction: established the South's first state-supported schools. Thaddeus Stevens's most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to the South. True The 1868 presidential election saw Ulysses S. Grant defeating Horatio Seymour. False The 1873 depression strengthened the North's resolve to ensure the success of Reconstruction, since the depression really hurt the South's farmers, highlighting the need for reform in the region. False The Bargain of 1877: led to the appointment of a southerner as postmaster general.