Chapter 12 Assessment

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.

What is the term for Legislation that discriminated against blacks, essentially slavery through legislation?

• Black Codes

• Impeach

• Reconstruction

• Civil Rights

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.

Thaddeus Stevens could be described as all of the following except

• a representative.

• a Northerner.

• a moderate.

• a Republican.

The Compromise of 1877 signaled an end to

• the Panic of 1873.

• the Republican Party.

• Reconstruction.

• civil rights legislation.

A state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of

• home rule.

• carpetbagging.

• redemption.

• impeachment

No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement, according to the

• black codes.

• Thirteenth Amendment.

• Fourteenth Amendment.

• Fifteenth Amendment.