Chapter 15 Quiz US History

As part of the "Bargain of 1877," President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered federal troops in _________ to return to their barracks and stop guarding state houses.

the South

Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that

the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race.

The Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution helped to create

the first national biracial democracy in world history.

What activity made the post-emancipation experience in the United States unique from other societies and became central to the former slaves' desire for empowerment and equality?

the right to vote within two years of the end of slavery

What was one of the central demands of feminists during Reconstruction?

the widespread availability of the birth control pill

In President Andrew Johnson's view, African-Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction?

They should have no role in shaping policies.

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

Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the fact that many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.

True

The once prosperous Confederate General Braxton Bragg returned from the Civil War to find he had lost everything and lived for some time with his wife in a slave cabin.

True

There were cases of freed slaves returning to the land they had previously worked demanding that they were "joint heirs" of the estate.

True

The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.

False

Who was the first black senator elected in U.S. history in 1870?

Hiram Revels

Which series of events is listed in proper sequence?

a. Bargain of 1877; election of Ulysses S. Grant; ratification of Fifteenth Amendment b. Slaughterhouse Cases; passage of Fourteenth Amendment; Reconstruction Act c. Tenure of Office Act; impeachment of President Andrew Johnson; election of Ulysses S. Grant d. assassination of Lincoln; passage of Fourteenth Amendment; passage of southern Black Codes Answer: C

3. The Black Codes were:

a. laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves in the South. b. secret codes used by freed blacks in regions where the Ku Klux Klan was strongest. c. a secret code combining elements of Creole and Pidgin English. d. codes of honor imposed upon newly freed black Americans. Answer: A

What was one of the principal tasks and objectives of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

settling disputes between whites and blacks and among the freed people

What was one of the principal tasks and objectives of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

settling disputes between whites and blacks and among the freedpeople

"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans.

True

During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators.

True

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False

The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights.

False

Which statement accurately describes sharecropping?

It allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.

In Mississippi in 1875, armed white rifle clubs drilled in public and openly assaulted ___________.

Republicans

The phrase "forty acres and a mule" is derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15

What event took place in Colfax, Louisiana, in 1873?

The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place, with armed whites massacring scores of former slaves.

There were cases of freed slaves returning to the land they had previously worked, demanding that they had acquired a right to the land.

True

Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction:

Were often arrested and hired out to white landowners.

What was a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction?

a growing perception among northerners that southern blacks were unfit for equal citizenship

In the summer of 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands

be returned to its former owners.

Today, most countries aside from the United States, including all nations in Europe, limit automatic access to what right via ethnicity, culture, or religion?

birthright citizenship

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race.

The House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson for violation of what law?

the Tenure of Office Act

What was the significance of the Reconstruction Act of March 1867?

It divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.

The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

defined crimes that deprived citizens of their civil and political rights as federal offenses.

What did three amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee to former slaves shortly after the Civil War?

freedom from slavery; recognition as citizens; and the vote for adult black men

What were central elements in the lives of post-emancipation blacks in the twenty years following the end of the Civil War?

he family, the church, the school

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because

it outlawed discrimination in voting based on race but not gender.