US History Chapter 12 Review

Democrats called those white Southerners who joined the Republican Party scalawags.

• True

• False

Carpetbaggers were those who left their homes after the war and moved to the South, where they were often scorned as dishonest business people.

• True

• False

During Reconstruction, churches became the principal institutions that African Americans fully controlled.

• True

• False

Very few former slaves were able to take part in sharecropping because they could never raise enough cash to rent land from planters.

• True

• False

Robert G. Fitzgerald was the first African American to win election as a U.S. senator.

• True

• False

The congressional leader of the Radical Republicans was

• Hiram Revels.

• Horace Greeley.

• Samuel J. Tilden.

• Thaddeus Stevens.

The Fourteenth Amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for the

• black codes.

• Compromise of 1877.

• Thirteenth Amendment.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866.

During Reconstruction, the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to

• bankers.

• merchants

• landowners.

• sharecroppers.

During Reconstruction, all of the following increased in the South except

• taxes.

• per capita income.

• public works programs.

• populations of towns and cities.

President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish

• poor white Southerners.

• Confederate leaders.

• Northern abolitionists.

• formerly enslaved African Americans.