Reference no: EM13124393

1. Radicals in Congress saw the defeated Southern states as states that by leaving the Union lost their rights of membership in the Union but not their statehood.
A) True
B) False
2. President Grant's decline in popularity in his second term is best explained by bribery and tax invasion scandals involving officials he appointed
A) True
B) False
3. Despite the Fed's inept handling of the reality of emancipation in the South, former slaves did benefit from the willingness of industrialists to supply seeds to anyone willing to grow cotton 
A) True
B) False
4. The once immensely-popular Ku Klux Klan, started in 1866, was largely responsible for the Republican Party's rise to dominance in the postwar South
A) True
B) False
5. President Andrew Johnson's eight-month Reconstruction plan resulted in almost no pardoning of members of the South's Confederate leadership
A) True
B) False
6. The Senate's failure to convict President Johnson of the charges brought against him established that impeachment was not a political tool.
A) True
B) False
7. In the final analysis, the Reconstruction governments of the South left blacks economically dependent on hostile whites
A) True
B) False
8. Congress believed it had a right to participate in the reconstruction process because of its Constitutional mandate to guarantee republican governments in the states
A) True
B) False
9. In the 1870s the Enforcement Acts and the Anti-Klan Act were passed to fund federal investigations of Klan infiltration of state governments in the South
A) True
B) False
10. The Supreme Court rulings in the Slaughter-House cases of 1873, U.S. v Cruikshank, and Bradwell v. Illinois limited the usefulness of the 14th and 15th amendments in protecting individuals' rights
A) True
B) False