Multiple Choice Chapter 15 Self-Quiz 1

. For Washington, the most important consideration following the Civil War was

ensuring the rights of the freed people.

ensuring that blacks did not foment a rebellion.

reestablishing loyal governments in the South.

making certain white Southerners were represented in Congress.

. What helped adjudicate labor disputes in the summer and fall of 1865?

the Freedmen's Bureau

the military court system

the federal court system

the Farmers' Alliance

. In the postwar rural South, the ethic of mutuality replaced

paternalism.

private enterprise.

slaves' concern for one another.

the pre-capitalist economic system.

. When blacks were emancipated in South Africa in the mid-19th century, local whites

did not extend the vote to blacks.

fled the country.

started the Morant Bay Rebellion.

retained social and economic power.

. In order to be readmitted under Johnson's plan, southern states had to

ratify the 14th Amendment.

extend amnesty to all high-ranking military and civilian officials of the Confederacy.

repudiate state debts incurred during the war.

take an oath of allegiance to the Union and Constitution.

. Carl Schurz's report

detailed the corruption and profligacy of southern Republicans.

undercut the reasoning behind Johnson's policies.

proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

developed a detailed strategy for the Democrats to retake control of southern politics.

. Johnson vetoed the 1866 Civil Rights Act because

it was a thinly veiled attempt to restore rights to white Southerners.

he thought it put too much power in the hands of the federal government.

he was disappointed it did not assist poor whites as well as blacks.

he was unwilling to allow anything Congress passed become law.

. The 15th Amendment addressed voting rights by

pointedly denying women the franchise.

enfranchising all former slaves, but not blacks in the North.

granting the right to vote to all black male citizens.

not counting blacks for apportionment if they were denied the right to vote.

. The Reconstruction Acts

created five military districts in the South that would operate as the government for the region.

increased the power of and funding for the Freedmen's Bureau.

enforced the 14th and 15th Amendments.

restricted the president's ability to remove appointees requiring Senate approval.

. After the Civil War, the plantation system

was destroyed, never to emerge again in the United States.

continued on as it had before with few changes.

transitioned to factory production.

transformed into sharecropping.

. What characterized carpetbaggers?

their opposition to the Republican Party

their focus on economic development issues

their focus on black rights

their opposition to black political rights

. What was the main way Democrats gained power starting in 1872?

by disenfranchising blacks

by using violence to keep Republican voters from the polls

by using charges of corruption and profligacy

by accepting the basic tenets of Reconstruction

. What was central to the Republican Party's economic development plan for the South?

textile manufacturing

black land ownership

sharecropping

railroads

. What primarily shaped historians' views of Reconstruction into the 1960s?

their racist assumptions about the inferiority of freed people

their sympathy toward African Americans

their overwhelming focus on economic issues

their overwhelming focus on political issues

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