Exam 15: Reconstruction and the New South

In 1865,what major challenges faced the nation? How did the various plans for reconstructing the nation attempt to address those challenges?

In the 1890s,the black journalist IdaB.Wells devoted her writing to attacking

President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction for the most part resembled the Wade-Davis Bill.

The Panic of 1873 began with the failure of a leading investment banking firm,________.

Grant played a leadership role among the "Liberal Republicans."

IdaB.Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ________ in the late nineteenth-century South.

During Reconstruction,though the black share of profits were rising,the total profits of Southern agriculture were declining.

During Reconstruction,the Southern school system

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech,Booker T.Washington

In late-nineteenth-century southern politics,economic issues played a secondary role to the issue of race.

In the South as a whole,the percentage of black officeholders during Reconstruction was always far lower than the percentage of blacks in the population.

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century,southern agriculture

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v.Ferguson (1896)that

The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular vote,but he did not win the presidency.

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871

Booker T.Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.

Democrats restored to power in the South were known variously as the "________" or the "Bourbons."

During Reconstruction,regarding land ownership in the South,

Advocates of the "New South"

The Alabama claims