10 out of 10 points
Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "Redeemers"?
Answer
Selected Answer: Gradually, conservative and racist white Democrats regained political control in the former Confederate states.
Question 2
10 out of 10 points
Which of the following was probably not the intention of the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment?
Answer
Selected Answer: to prevent segregation in schools and public places
Question 3
10 out of 10 points
Which of the following is true about Abraham Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson?
Answer
Selected Answer: He lacked any concern for the welfare of African Americans.
Question 4
10 out of 10 points
What was the most powerful source of political unity among white conservatives in the South?
Answer
Selected Answer: race
Question 5
10 out of 10 points
Which of the following did the congressional Reconstruction program enacted 1866-1867 NOT provide for?
Answer
Selected Answer: a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to deserving freedmen
Question 6
10 out of 10 points
The southern response to war's end and Johnson's program of Reconstruction indicated
Answer
Selected Answer: despair and defiance.
Question 7
10 out of 10 points
In the 1872 election, presidential contender Horace Greeley could best be described as a
Answer
Selected Answer: liberal Republican.
Question 8
10 out of 10 points
Why were most teachers in Freedmen's Bureau's schools black in 1969?
Answer
Selected Answer: Volunteers faced Southern white hostility and difficult teaching conditions.
Question 9
10 out of 10 points
In the years after the Civil War, many freedmen ended up working as
Answer
Selected Answer: farmers under a