Chapter 15
"Redeemers" saved the South from the corrupt ways of Reconstruction politics and redeemed the South for fair and equal treatment for all Americans.
False
In consequence of the Reconstruction governments across the South, the region became a vibrant and successful hub of dynamic and expansive economic growth, allowing many African Americans to escape from poverty.
False
Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.
False
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leading figures in the women's rights movement, were strong supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment.
False
The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights.
False
The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.
False
The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.
False
Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.
False
While corruption was almost non-existent in the North, it was rampant in the South.
False
"Scalawags" were southern white Republicans.
True
After emancipation, many freedwomen elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home. True or False
True
Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction in state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.
True
Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers.
True
Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s.
True
Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote.
True
Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent.
True
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters' land should be confiscated and redistributed among former slaves.
True
During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African Americans registered to vote.
True
During Reconstruction some 2,000 African Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the United States House of Representatives and two U.S. Senators.
True
During Reconstruction, a number of state governments initiated civil rights legislation that made it illegal for railroads, hotels, and other institutions to discriminate on the basis of race.
True
During the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.
True
In 1866, the Civil Rights Bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.
True
In 1873, the country was plunged into an economic depression and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.
True
In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment had not altered traditional federalism.
True
Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the distaste many southerners had for tax increases that were needed to fund public schools and other improvements, and also because many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.
True
Prior to ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights applied only to laws made by the federal government, not to laws made by individual states.
True
Robert Smalls, a black representative in the United States House of Representatives, was elected to five terms in Congress.
True
Some 700 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction.
True
The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.
True
The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the Second Reconstruction.
True
The KKK was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.
True
The period of Radical Reconstruction began in March 1867 with Congress's adoption of the Reconstruction Act over the president's veto and ended in 1877.
True
