Reconstruction: 1863-1877 Chapter 15 AMSCO

"Though we have had war, reconstruction, and abolition as a nation, we still linger in the shadow and blight of an extinct institution. Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment ... In his downward course he meets no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress ..."If liberty, with us, is yet but a name, our citizenship is but a sham, and our suffrage thus far only a cruel mockery, we may yet congratulate ourselves upon the fact that the laws and institutions of the country are sound, just, and liberal. There is hope ... But until this nation shall make its practice accord with its Constitution and its righteous laws, it will not do to reproach the colored people of this country."

-Frederick Douglass, Speech, September 24, 1883

Which of the following would in part cause Douglass's view that for African Americans, "citizenship is but a sham"?

• 14th Amendment

• Black Codes

• Freedman's Bureau

• The Election of Ulysses S. Grant

Which best provides an example of how the "Constitution and its righteous laws," according to Douglass, provide hope for the "colored people of this country"?

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Amnesty Act of 1872

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 16th Amendment

Which of the following developed during Reconstruction to provide direct support and support self-determination for those freed from slavery?

• Credit Mobilier

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Black churches

"l. All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . are citizens... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens ... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process; nor deny ... equal

protection of the laws.

"2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States ... counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election ... thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants ... being twenty-one years of age, and citizens ... or in any way abridged, except for ... crime, ... the basis of

representation therein shall be reduced ... .

"3. No person shall ... hold any office ... who, having previously taken an oath . . . shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same ... But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

-14th Amendment, Constitution of the United States, July 9, 1868

In proclaiming that all persons born in the United States were citizens, the 14th Amendment directly repudiated which of the following?

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

For future Supreme Courts, one of the key points of the 14th Amendment would be which of the following?

• "nor deny ... equal protection of the laws"

• "Representatives shall be apportioned"

• "the basis of representation therein shall be reduced"

• "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion"

Which of the following was most important in enabling the Democratic Party to regain political power in the South?

• Limiting education for the freedmen

• Limiting the voting rights of the freedmen

• The Panic of 1873

• The Amnesty Act of 1872

The victor in the 1876 presidential election was decided by

• a special electoral commission

• the House of Representatives

• the Senate

• the Supreme Court

Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as president in 1876 in part if he agreed to which of the following?

• to support a nationwide Black Code

• to remove federal troops from the South

• to promote Southern industrial development

• to support civil service reform