Exam 15: Reconstruction and the New South

During Reconstruction,all adult male former slaves were given the constitutional right to vote.

The Fourteenth Amendment offered the first constitutional definition of ________.

The elections of 1876 saw

By the 1890s,voting percentages in the South had

"Scalawags" were Southerners who moved north after the Civil War.

The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in a resounding victory for the Republicans.

The most numerous Republicans in the South were the ________.

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,

The Tenure of Office Act was designed to protect the job of Secretary of War ________.

Why has the presidency of Andrew Johnson generally been considered a failure by historians?

The Freedmen's Bureau was envisioned as a semi-permanent institution that would take a major role in reconstructing the lives of freed slaves.

In 1868,Ulysses S.Grant

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

State laws designed to restore slavery in all but name in the post-Civil War South were called the ________.

The Treaty of Washington provided for ________ with Britain over "Alabama claims."

During Reconstruction,black family roles soon came to resemble similar roles within white families.

"Seward's Folly" refers to the American purchase of ________.

As sharecroppers,the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.

In 1868,President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

After the Civil War,most black agricultural workers toiled as tenants of white landowners and were known as ________.