Positive Contributions of Radical Governments in the South

1. Chapter 15 Quiz 2 Review

2. Which of the following was NOT one of the positive contributions of Radical governments in the South? • Public school systems • universal manhood suffrage • disenfranchisement of Southern whites • rebuilding of transportation systems.

3. disenfranchisement of Southern whites

4. Who was Hiram Revels? • The South's most famous carpetbagger • the first African American to serve in Congress • a Senator involved in the Credit Mobilier Scandal • the leading Radical in the U.S. Senate

5. the first African American to serve in Congress

6. Why did sharecropping become common in the South during Reconstruction? • The Radicals imposed sharecropping on the South • Southerners wanted to restore a plantation economy • the South lacked sufficient money to pay wages • the South wanted the freed slaves to buy their own land

7. the South lacked sufficient money to pay wages

8. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ Northern Radical who moved South

9. A) carpetbagger

10. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ Southern Radical

11. G) Scalawag

12. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ denial of the right to vote

13. D) disenfranchisement

14. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ method for freed slaves to farm the land without cash

15. H) Sharecropping

16. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ Southerner who wanted to restore white majority rule

17. E) Redeemer

18. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ government agency designed to help freed slaves

19. C) Freedman's Bureau

20. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ extremist group that opposed Radical Reconstruction

21. F) Ku Klux Klan

22. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ division of the South into five military districts

23. I) Military Reconstruction Act

24. A) carpetbagger • B) Black Codes • C) Freedman's Bureau • D) disenfranchisement • E) Redeemer • F) Ku Klux Klan • G) Scalawag • H) Sharecropping • I) Military Reconstruction Act • ___ attempt to regulate the conduct of former slaves

25. B) Black Codes

26. True/False • ___ Early in Reconstruction, Radical Republicans gained control of state governments in the South by denying the vote to many former Confederates

27. True

28. True/False • ___ The hardships of Reconstruction forced the South to produce staples, such as wheat and rice, rather than cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco

29. False