Chapter 15 - Reconstruction (1865-1877) Study Guide

After the Civil War the southern economy was devestated.

• True

• False

The Freedmen's Bureau was tremendously successful in protecting and assisting former slaves.

• True

• False

President Johnson's plan to restore the Union closely resembled Lincoln's.

• True

• False

The black churches were the first social institutions the former slaves could control, and they quickly became the crossroads for African American community life.

• True

• False

The most popular religious denomination among blacks in the postwar South was Baptist.

• True

• False

Critics of the gold standard tended to be farmers and other debtors.

• True

• False

Democrats generally favored "hard money" currency.

• True

• False

Rutherford B. Hayes was able to win the 1876 Presidential Election because of the Compromise of 1877.

• True

• False

This was created to assist the newly freed slaves in acclimating to their new status.

• Ku Klux Klan

• The Knights of the Golden Circle

• Congressional Reconstruction

• The Freedmen's Bureau

Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 in Ford's Theatre by?

• Salmon P. Chase

• Edwin Stanton

• John Wilkes Booth

• Edmund G. Ross