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Reconstruction and the South
True/False Quiz

1 .       Most of those who supported Radical Republican governments in the South during Reconstruction were idealistic and ambitious northerners called "carpetbaggers." [Hint]

 
 


2 .       Most blacks who were elected to office during Radical Reconstruction were relatively well educated and prosperous. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Unlike many northern state governments and the federal government, southern state governments under Radical Reconstruction were remarkably free from graft and corruption. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Because they were segregated, most blacks took little interest in the school systems set up by Radical Republican governments in the postwar South. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       During Reconstruction, former slaves preferred a sharecropping system to working for wages. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       A relative boom in the tobacco, iron, and textile industries significantly increased the South's share of the output of manufactured goods in the post-Civil War United States. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       Northerners' interest in Reconstruction declined only when they became convinced that southern blacks had achieved economic security. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       A special electoral commission awarded all the disputed electoral votes in the Election of 1876 to the Republican Party's candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       President Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" for Reconstruction required that, before they could be readmitted to the Union, former Confederate states must guarantee blacks the right to vote. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       In 1864-1865, the majority of Senate Republicans insisted that former slaves be guaranteed the right to vote, own land, and receive an education. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       Radical Republicans insisted that Reconstruction protect black rights because, by 1865, most northerners had come to believe in racial equality. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       President Johnson encouraged southern states not to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment that was proposed by Congress in 1866. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       Under the 1867 Reconstruction Acts, former Confederate states were required to guarantee blacks the right to vote. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       Recently enfranchised black voters helped elect President Grant in 1868. [Hint]

 
 


15 .       With the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, it became a constitutional right for all American adults to vote. [Hint]

 
 






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