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Name: _________________________________ Period:________ Unit 6
CHAPTER 16: The Crises of Reconstruction 1865-1877
I. TRUE OR FALSE: Mark the following true or false – if the statement is false, correct it to make it true.
1.
__F__ Lincoln’s reconstruction plan required 50% of the voters in the Southern states had to take an
oath of loyalty to the Union and accept emancipation before that state could re-enter the Union.
2.
____Congress revealed its approach to Reconstruction by passing the more punitive Wade-Davis Bill,
but President Lincoln pocket vetoed it.
3.
____Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson was added as the Vice-Presidential candidate on the
Republican (National Union) ticket in 1864 to broaden Lincoln’s support.
4.
____The Johnson Plan of Reconstruction required the former Confederate states to proclaim secession
illegal, repudiate the Confederate debts, and ratify the 13th Amendment.
5.
__F__Seven former Confederate states adopted black codes to guarantee property rights and loosen
racial segregation laws for all former slaves. These codes revealed white southern intentions to
cooperate with Reconstruction.
6.
____President Johnson vetoed the congressional attempt to extend the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau,
but Congress overrode the veto.
7.
__F__President Johnson signed the 1866 Civil Rights Bill, convincing the moderate and Radical
Republicans that Johnson would cooperate with them.
8.
____The Fourteenth Amendment was written to more clearly define the civil rights of citizens,
including African Americans. It also contained the first use of the word “male” in the Constitution.
9.
__F__Johnson vetoed the Tenure of Office Act, citing his belief that it was unconstitutional. His
argument convinced enough congressmen to go along with him so that the veto was not over-ridden.
10. ____Impeachment charges were brought against Johnson after he fired Secretary of War Stanton.
11. __F__The Radical Republicans fell five votes short of the necessary 2/3rds majority needed to
successfully impeach the president. Several Republicans sided with democrats opposed to conviction.
12. ____Ex-Confederate states were compelled to allow black men to vote as a prerequisite for
readmission to the Union under the Reconstruction Act of 1867 even though most of the northern
states did not grant blacks the vote.
13. ____The Republicans in the late 1860s relied on the votes of the newly enfranchised former slaves.
14. ____Susan B. Anthony argued that both the 14th and 15th Amendments did not help women’s rights.
15. __F__Scalawags were Northerners who came south during the Reconstruction period to exploit the
opportunities in the defeated ex-Confederacy.
16. __F__The crop lien system usually made it possible for freedmen to overcome indebtedness because
the tenant could pay for their supplies and rent with the profits from the sale of their crops.
17. ____Grant was elected to the presidency in 1868, but he proved to be a passive president who tolerated
fraud and bribery in his administration, leading to the term “Grantism” to describe corruption.
18. ____Critics of Grant’s party leadership formed the Liberal Republicans to challenged Grant’s reelection as president in 1872.
19. ____The intent of the 14th Amendment was undermined by the Supreme Court’s doctrine of duel
citizenship which stated that the amendment protected national citizenship, NOT rights under state
citizenship.
20. ____The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Reconstruction as President Hayes was elected and
Federal troops responsible for enforcing the new rights of Freedmen were withdrawn.
Name: _________________________________ Period:________ Unit 6
CHAPTER 16: The Crises of Reconstruction 1865-1877
II. IDENTIFICATION: Supply the correct identification for each item.
1.
He was the Radical Republican leader in the Senate who demanded harsh treatment of the South. He
was once beaten nearly to death by Preston Brooks. _____Charles Sumner______
2.
This Constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States. ___13th___
3.
These laws passed in many southern states during Presidential Reconstruction barred former slaves
from owning land or joining certain professions. _____Black Codes_________
4.
This agency was set up by Congress to provide the former slaves with relief, rations, medical care,
education and employment assistance, making the transition to freedom easier. __Freedmen’s Bureau _
5.
This law was later elevated to become the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Civil Rights Act of 66_
6.
This legislation invalidated state governments formed under Lincoln and Johnson and divided the
former Confederacy into five military districts. __Reconstruction Act of 1867________
7.
The law that Andrew Johnson violated when he fired Secretary of War Stanton. Tenure of Office Act_
8.
The name given by the former Confederates to those Southerners who cooperated with the Republicans
in Reconstruction. ___Scalawags________
9.
The Federal law passed by Congress to control the KKK and end the campaign of violence against
former slaves. ___Enforcement Act (3rd)___________
10. This labor system was established in the South during Reconstruction. Former slaves traded their labor
for a portion of a farm’s output. ____Sharecropping__________
11. The corrupt city political boss of New York who headed Tammany Hall. Thomas Nast made him a
target of many political cartoons. ______Boss William Tweed_______
12. The press mocked the purchase of Alaska, calling it this. ___Seward’s Ice Box_____
13. He was the Liberal Republican candidate for President in 1872. The former newspaperman lost the
election and his life shortly after the election. ___Horace Greeley_________
14. This economic disaster resulted in business and bank failures during a 5-year depression. _Panic of
1873______
15. This political party was dedicated to keeping unbacked currency in circulation. They hoped that “easy
money” would make payment of debts easier. _____Greenback Party_________
16. These 1873 Supreme Court cases involved a business monopoly, not the rights of freedmen, but the
cases had far-reaching implications for the civil rights of freedmen. ____Slaughterhouse cases___
17. This was the term used by Democrats to describe their return to power in the South. _Redemption__
18. This term refers to the 4,000 African-Americans who left the deep South in 1879 to start homesteads in
Kansas. ___Exodusters____
19. He was the New York lawyer and political reformer who was the candidate for the Democratic Party in
1876. ___Samuel Tilden_______
20. He was the candidate for the Republican Party in 1876. ___Rutherford B. Hayes______