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Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the South

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz


This activity contains 14 questions.

	Most of those who supported Radical Republican governments in the South during Reconstruction were idealistic and ambitious northerners called "carpetbaggers."    True  False

	Most blacks who were elected to office during Radical Reconstruction were relatively well educated and prosperous.    True  False

	Unlike many northern state governments and the federal government, southern state governments under Radical Reconstruction were remarkably free from graft and corruption.    True  False

	Because they were segregated, most blacks took little interest in the school systems set up by Radical Republican governments in the postwar South.    True  False

	During Reconstruction, former slaves preferred a sharecropping system to working for wages.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	A special electoral commission awarded all the disputed electoral votes in the Election of 1876 to the Republican party's candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes.    True  False

	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.    True  False

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

	Radical Republicans insisted that Reconstruction protect black rights because, by 1865, most white northerners had come to believe in racial equality.    True  False

	President Johnson encouraged southern states not to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment that was proposed by Congress in 1866.    True  False

	Under the 1867 Reconstruction Acts, former Confederate states were required to guarantee blacks the right to vote.    True  False

	Recently enfranchised black voters helped elect President Grant in 1868.    True  False

	With the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, it became a constitutional right for all American adults to vote.    True  False

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