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Chapter 22 Take Home Quiz: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
and some Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
Matching People, Places, and Events: Match the person, place, or event with the proper description by
inserting the correct letter on the blank line.
A. Exodusters
B. Oliver O. Howard C. Andrew Johnson
D. Horace Greeley
E. Civil Rights Bill of 1866 AB. Charles Sumner AC. Thaddeus Stevens
AD. Jim Fisk
AE. Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
BC. Hiram Revels
BD. Ku Klux Klan
BE. Force Acts of 1870 and 1871
CD. Tenure of Office Act
CE. Union League
ABE. Benjamin Wade
ABD. William Seward
ABE. Abraham Lincoln
ACD. Roscoe Conkling
ACE. James G. Blaine
1. ___ A constitutionally questionable law whose violation by President Johnson formed the basis for his
impeachment
2. ___ The first congressional attempt to guarantee black rights in the South, passed over Johnson’s veto
3. ___ Born a poor white southerner, he became the South’s champion against radical Reconstruction
4. ___ Laws designed to stamp out Ku Klux Klan terrorism in the South
5. ___ Black Republican senator from Mississippi during Reconstruction
6. ___ Secret organization that intimidated blacks and worked to restore white supremacy
7. ___ Blacks who left the South for Kansas and elsewhere during Reconstruction
8. ___ Congressional law that imposed military rule on the South and demanded harsh conditions for
readmission of the seceded states
9. ___ Beaten in the Senate chamber before the Civil War, he became the leader of Senate Republican
radicals during Reconstruction
10. ___ Pro-black general who led an agency that tried to assist the freedmen
11. ___ Leading Black political organization during Reconstruction
12. ___ Author of the moderate “10 percent” Reconstruction plan that ran into congressional opposition
13. ___ The president pro tempore of the Senate who hoped to become president of the United States after
Johnson’s impeachment conviction
14. ___ Leader of radical Republicans in the House of Representatives
15. ___ Charming but corrupt “Half-Breed” Republican senator and presidential nominee in 1884
16. ___ Bold and unprincipled financier whose plot to corner the U.S. gold market nearly succeeded in 1869
17. ___ Colorful, eccentric newspaper editor who carried the Liberal Republican and Democratic banners
against Grant in 1872
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer and put the proper letter in the space provided.
18. ___ After emancipation, many blacks traveled in order to
a. return to Africa or the West Indies
b. seek a better life in Northern cities
c. find lost family members or seek new economic opportunities
d. track down and punish cruel overseers
19. ___ Lincoln’s original plan for Reconstruction in 1863 was that a state could be re-integrated into the
Union when
a. it repealed its original secession act and took its soldiers out of the Confederate Army
b. 10 percent of its voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union and pledged to abide by
emancipation
c. it formally adopted a plan guaranteeing black political and economic rights
d. it ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
20. ___ The Black Codes passed by many of the Southern state governments in 1865 aimed to
a. provide economic assistance to get former slaves started as sharecroppers
b. ensure a stable and subservient labor force under white control
c. permit blacks to vote if they met certain educational or economic standards
d. gradually force blacks to leave the South
21. ___ The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in
a. a victory for Johnson and his pro-Southern Reconstruction plan
b. a further political stalemate between the Republicans in Congress and Johnson
c. a decisive defeat for Johnson and a veto-proof Republican Congress
d. a gain for Northern Democrats and their moderate compromise plan for Reconstruction
22. ___ In contrast to radical Republicans, moderate Republicans generally
a. favored states’ rights and opposed direct federal involvement in individuals’ lives
b. favored the use of federal power to alter the Southern economic system
c. favored emancipation but opposed the Fourteenth Amendment
d. favored returning the Southern states to the Union without significant Reconstruction
23. ___ Besides putting the South under the rule of federal soldiers, the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
required that
a. Southern states give blacks the vote as a condition of readmittance to the Union
b. blacks and carpetbaggers be given control of Southern legislatures
c. former slaves be given land and education at federal expense
d. former Confederate officials and military officers be tried for treason
24. ___ The Fourteenth Amendment provided for
a. an end to slavery
b. permanent disfranchisement of all Confederate officials
c. full citizenship and civil rights for former slaves
d. voting rights for women
25. ___ The Fifteenth Amendment provided for
a. readmitting Southern states to the Union
b. full citizenship and civil rights for former slaves
c. voting rights for former slaves
d. voting rights for women
26. ___ Women’s rights leaders opposed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because
a. they objected to racial integration in the women’s movement
b. the amendments granted citizenship and voting rights to black and white men but not to women
c. they favored passage of the Equal Rights Amendment first
d. most of them were Democrats who would be hurt by the amendments
27. ___ The right to vote encouraged southern black men to
a. form a third political party as an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans
b. seek an apology and reparations for slavery
c. organize the Union League as a vehicle for political empowerment and self-defense
d. organize large-scale migrations out of the South to the West
28. ___ The radical Reconstruction regimes in the Southern states
a. took away white Southerners’ civil rights and voting rights
b. consisted almost entirely of blacks
c. included white Northerners, white Southerners, and blacks
d. eliminated the public education systems in most Southern states
29. ___ Most of the Northern “carpetbaggers” were actually
a. former Union soldiers, businessmen, or professionals
b. undercover agents of the federal governments
c. former Southern Whigs and Unionists who had opposed the Confederacy
d. Northern teachers and missionaries who wanted to aid the freedmen
30. ___ The radical Republicans’ impeachment of President Andrew Johnson resulted in
a. Johnson’s acceptance of the radicals’ Reconstruction plan
b. a failure to convict and remove Johnson by a margin of only one vote
c. Johnson’s conviction on the charge of violating the Tenure of Office Act
d. Johnson’s resignation and appointment of Ulysses Grant as his successor
31. ___ The skeptical public finally accepted Seward’s purchase of Alaska because
a. there were rumors of extensive of oil deposits in the territory
b. it was considered strategically vital to American defense
c. it would provide a new frontier safely valve after the settling of the West
d. Russia had been the only great power friendly to the Union during the Civil War
32. ___Grant’s greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration was
a. his refusal to turn over evidence to congressional investigators
b. his toleration of corruption and his loyalty to crooked friends
c. his acceptance of behind-the-scenes payments for performing his duties as president
d. his use of large amounts of “dirty” money in his political campaigns
33. ___ The key tradeoff featured in the Compromise of 1877 was that
a. Republicans got the presidency in exchange for the final removal of federal troops from the South
b. Democrats got the presidency in exchange for federal guarantees of black civil rights
c. Republicans got the presidency in exchange for Democratic control of the cabinet
d. Democrats got the presidency in exchange for increased immigration quotas from Ireland
More Matching:
A. Credit Mobilier
E. Liberal Republicans
AE. Radical Republicans
BE. Moderate Republicans
ABE. Ex Parte Milligan
ACD. Baptist
B. Union League
C. Ten Percent Plan
D. Scalawags
AB. Freedmen
AC. Bloody Shirt
AD. Carpetbaggers
BC. Gilded Age
BD. Fifteenth Amendment
CD. Fourteenth Amendment
CE. Alaska
ABD. Black Codes ABE. Thirteenth Amendment
ACE. Freedman’s Bureau
34. ___ Common term for the blacks newly liberated from slavery
35. ___ Federal agency that greatly assisted blacks educationally but failed in other aid efforts
36. ___ The largest African American denomination (church) after slavery
37. ___ Lincoln’s 1863 program for a rapid Reconstruction of the South
38. ___ The constitutional amendment freeing all slaves
39. ___ The harsh Southern state laws of 1865 that limited black rights and imposed restrictions to ensure a
stable black labor supply
40. ___ The constitutional amendment granting civil rights to freed slaves and barring former Confederates
from office
41. ___ Republican Reconstructionists who favored a more rapid restoration of Southern state governments
and opposed radical plans for drastic economic transformation of the South
42. ___ Republican Reconstructionists who favored keeping the South out of the federal government until a
complete social and economic revolution was accomplished in the region
43. ___ The black political organization that promoted self-help and defense of political rights
44. ___ Supreme Court ruling that military tribunals could not try civilians when the civil courts were open
45. ___ Derogatory term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Republican Reconstruction
governments
46. ___ “Seward’s Folly,” acquired in 1867 from Russia
47. ___The symbol of the Republican political tactic of attacking Democrats with reminders of the Civil War
48. ___ Corrupt construction company whose bribes and payoffs to congressmen and others created a major
Grant administration scandal
49. ___ Short-lived third party of 1872 that attempted to curb Grant administration corruption
50. ___ Mark Twain’s sarcastic name for the post-Civil War era, which emphasized its atmosphere of greed
and corruption
Essay: Either on this page or on a separate sheet of paper, prepare an outline for the following question:
In what ways and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount
to a revolution?
You do not need to write out the essay (if you want to for practice, go ahead, and I will give you feedback,
but no extra credit). I want to see your detailed and organized outline (namedrops!!!) and thesis statement.