Exam 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877

The ____________________ Act established the modern structure of the civil service.

One recent historian has called America's Reconstruction a "splendid failure." What do you think was meant by this statement? Evaluate the goals, successes, and failures of those who attempted to reconstruct southern society. Do you think that the historian's statement is an accurate assessment of the postwar years?

Without black enfranchisement, Ulysses S. Grant would have had a minority of the popular vote in 1868.

In 1883, the Supreme Court declared a civil rights law passed in 1875 as unconstitutional.

The 1871 Treaty of Washington

Under the Johnson Reconstruction Plan, no ex-Confederate state gave blacks the right to vote.

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was

The Wade-Davis Bill granted the franchise to black Americans.

Ulysses S. Grant's presidency is known as an era of

The Panic of 1873 was primarily caused by which industry?

Carpetbaggers were southerners who served Republican Reconstruction governments.

Ulysses S. Grant suffered public criticism for its efforts to acquire ____________________.

Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1877?

Nearly all freed slaves continued to work for their former owners after the war.

The ____________________ was a terrorist organization that attacked blacks and set out to destroy the Republican Party in the South.

The Fourteenth Amendment encouraged southern states to enfranchise blacks but did not force them to do so.

Grant is generally considered

Johnson created the ____________________ Party.

The new southern state constitutions written during the winter and spring of 1867-68 were among the most progressive in the nation.

Radical Republicans in Congress initially believed that Andrew Johnson would support their program.