American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 15: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

True or False Quiz

1
As bad as the economic and physical situation was for Southern blacks in the aftermath of the Civil War, conditions were even worse for the region's white population.
A)True
B)False
2
The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery throughout the South in 1863.
A)True
B)False
3
Republicans were afraid that the quick return of the Southern states to Congress would lead to more Democratic votes, thereby increasing the likelihood that Congress would establish protective tariffs and subsidize railroads.
A)True
B)False
4
President Lincoln believed that a lenient Reconstruction policy would encourage Southern Unionists and other Southern Whigs to become Republicans and build a stronger party in the South.
A)True
B)False
5
John Wilkes Booth acted completely on his own in plotting to murder President Lincoln.
A)True
B)False
6
Characteristics of Andrew Johnson's personality that hampered him as president were that he was too polite and deferential to assume any leadership initiative.
A)True
B)False
7
The Tenure of Office Act and the Command of the Army Act were passed by Congress to prevent Southern states from sending former Confederates to Congress or from having them control the state militia companies.
A)True
B)False
8
Even thought the House's impeachment charges were nominally based on specific "high crimes and misdemeanors," Andrew Johnson was actually convicted by the Senate and removed from the presidency for petty political reasons.
A)True
B)False
9
Despite the end of slavery, most black agricultural labor in the South in the late nineteenth century continued to emulate the gang-labor system in which slaves lived in concentrated quarters and worked in groups under the constant supervision of a white field boss suggestive of the prewar overseer.
A)True
B)False
10
During the period from just before the Civil War to just after Reconstruction, per capita income for African Americans rose significantly while per capita income for whites dropped.
A)True
B)False
11
In the 1870s, the expanded printing of greenback paper currency was advocated by those, especially debtors, who believed that inflation would help the economy.
A)True
B)False
12
In the context of Reconstruction, "redeemed" was used to refer to freedmen who had returned to their original slave plantations as workers after running away during or immediately following the war.
A)True
B)False
13
The Crédit Mobilier was a railroad construction company involved in scandal during the Grant administration.
A)True
B)False
14
Hamilton Fish was Grant's secretary of state whose actions worsened relations between the United States and Great Britain.
A)True
B)False
15
Alaska was called "Seward's Folly" because of his aborted attempt to sell the territory to the Russian czar as a method of financing the cost of maintaining troops in the South during Reconstruction.
A)True
B)False
16
In the period from the end of Reconstruction into the twentieth century, the Democratic Party was the political party of the vast majority of Southern whites.
A)True
B)False
17
In general, the "Redeemer" ("Bourbon") political regimes were inclined to raise taxes to expand services, especially public education.
A)True
B)False
18
By 1900, the portion of the nation's manufacturing output produced in the South was about three times what it had been on the eve of the Civil War.
A)True
B)False
19
The portion of Southern farmers who were tenants, cash, or sharecrop, increased markedly from Reconstruction to 1900.
A)True
B)False
20
In the period from Reconstruction to 1900, the crop-lien system helped force many Southern farmers in the piney woods and mountains from cash crop commercial farming into a ruggedly independent sort of subsistence farming.
A)True
B)False
21
By the late 1890s, a significantly smaller portion of Southern blacks was allowed to vote than in the late 1860s.
A)True
B)False
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