Exam 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877

Abolitionist and missionary groups sent teachers into the Union-occupied South to educate freed slaves during the Civil War.

One of the major political scandals of the Grant presidency involved

The new state constitutions adopted by southern states in 1867 and 1868​

Some black farmers were able to buy small plots of land.

Which of the following is true of Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial?

Freed slaves expected ____________________ acres of land.

At the height of Reconstruction, blacks held ____ percent of public offices.

The financier whose pyramid schemes collapsed in 1873 and helped touch off an economic collapse was ____________________.

In order for a Southern state to be declared reconstructed and its delegates seated in Congress, the state had to ratify the ____________________ Amendment.

Andrew Johnson's National Union Party included all of the following except

The idea of redistributing plantation land to freedmen was tried first by

The Ku Klux Klan was created by former Confederate soldiers.

The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan was to

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave states the option of enfranchising black males or losing seats in Congress.

Moderate Republicans believed that black men should participate to some degree in the reconstruction process.

By September 1867, blacks registered to vote outnumbered whites in the ten states covered by Reconstruction.

The ____________________ Amendment gave blacks the right to vote.

Examine both the achievements and failures of the Grant administration. Keeping his two terms in context with the larger political and social backdrop that was Reconstruction America, would you assert that his administration was a failure?

Andrew Johnson was openly critical of the southern planter class.

Which of the following is not true of black political activity during Reconstruction?