Chapter 165. Reflections on Reconstruction Collapses, Chapter 16

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Correct. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, by the 1870s, new political and economic issues attracted Northerners’ attention and the federal government’s commitment to African American rights withered, allowing southern Democrats to retake their state governments and regain sufficient political influence to bring an official end to reconstruction.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The answer is c. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, by the 1870s, new political and economic issues attracted Northerners’ attention and the federal government’s commitment to African American rights withered, allowing southern Democrats to retake their state governments and regain sufficient political influence to bring an official end to reconstruction.

Correct. The answer is c. To substantiate his argument that Northerners’ commitment to reconstruction began to wane by the late 1860s and 1870s, the author points to Grant’s very narrow victory over his Democratic opponent Horatio Seymour of New York, who opposed reconstruction vehemently, calling it “a flagrant usurpation of power…unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void.”

Incorrect. The answer is c. To substantiate his argument that Northerners’ commitment to reconstruction began to wane by the late 1860s and 1870s, the author points to Grant’s very narrow victory over his Democratic opponent Horatio Seymour of New York, who opposed reconstruction vehemently, calling it “a flagrant usurpation of power…unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void.”

Correct. The answer is a. To support his point that southern Republicans continued to seek and sometimes receive federal support even though Northerners had lost interest in reconstruction, the author describes their plea for federal protection from increasing Klan violence and the passage of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. This act made interference with voting rights a felony, and it sent federal marshals to the South to arrest thousands of Klansmen.

Incorrect. The answer is a. To support his point that southern Republicans continued to seek and sometimes receive federal support even though Northerners had lost interest in reconstruction, the author describes their plea for federal protection from increasing Klan violence and the passage of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. This act made interference with voting rights a felony, and it sent federal marshals to the South to arrest thousands of Klansmen.

Correct. The answer is d. The author attributes the North’s abandonment of reconstruction in the 1870s to various factors, but he argues that Northerners’ “unyielding racial prejudice” was at the heart of the matter.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author attributes the North’s abandonment of reconstruction in the 1870s to various factors, but he argues that Northerners’ “unyielding racial prejudice” was at the heart of the matter.

Correct. The answer is b. The author demonstrates that the Republican Party reached its decision to end reconstruction completely during the negotiations that led to the Compromise of 1877. That compromise settled the question of who would become president in March of that year. In exchange for Democrats’ promise not to block Hayes’s inauguration and to deal fairly with the freedmen, Hayes vowed to refrain from using the army to uphold the remaining Republican regimes in the South.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author demonstrates that the Republican Party reached its decision to end reconstruction completely during the negotiations that led to the Compromise of 1877. That compromise settled the question of who would become president in March of that year. In exchange for Democrats’ promise not to block Hayes’s inauguration and to deal fairly with the freedmen, Hayes vowed to refrain from using the army to uphold the remaining Republican regimes in the South.

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