Exam 1: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

​Why did women fail to win the right to vote, despite the enactment of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments? What were the short-term and long-term political implications of this disappointing political defeat suffered by advocates of women's rights during the Reconstruction era?

Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Pacific Railroad Act

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"radical" regimes

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Force Acts

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except

Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges ultimately because

In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

Congressional Reconstruction hoped to provide and enforce basic rights and protection for the former slaves in the South through the

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Benjamin Wade

Radical Reconstruction state governments in the South

Radical Republicans have been both credited with having high ideals and accused of crass partisanship as motives for their Reconstruction policies. Which argument do you find more persuasive? Why?

How did freed slaves respond to Reconstruction? How did freedom affect the economic, social, and political life of former slaves? In what ways was their freedom still incomplete?

Congress objected to the readmission of Southern states to the Union under Johnson's plan because

The last of the Reconstruction era amendments to pass was the

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that

The political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated

There are several examples in American history of rapid reconciliation with the defeated foe. Why didn't the South receive this sympathetic treatment in Reconstruction? Who or what do you fault for the harshness of Southern Reconstruction? Why?

The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was