Give Me Liberty Chapter 15

In which of the following nations was the institution of slavery replaced by indentured servitude?

British Guiana

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False

The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.

False

The phrase, "forty acres and a mule," derived from:

Sherman's Field Order 15.

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

True

The Black Codes were:

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.

Which of the following was not a widespread activity among newly emancipated blacks?

moving to the North in search of greater freedom and opportunity

The destruction of slavery led feminists to search for ways to make the promise of free labor real for women. Define "feminists" in this context.

persons who held a view advocating social, political, and other rights for women equal to those of men

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

ratification of Thirteenth Amendment; Tenure of Office Act; impeachment of Johnson; election of Grant

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

were often convicted of vagrancy and fined; sometimes they were then auctioned off to work for the person who paid the fine.

Which was not a principal task of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

support black churches and businesses

Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president.

Andrew Johnson

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

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

Which of the following was not a major effect of Reconstruction (at its height) upon southern society?

It inspired a mass exodus of southern blacks to lands that had never known slavery.

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

The Tenure of Office Act

Which was not true of Liberal Republicans in the post-Civil War era?

They believed the growth of federal power needed to be expanded.

After emancipation, many freedwomen elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home.

True

Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.

True

Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s.

True

Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent.

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 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 the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.

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

During Reconstruction, the black church functioned as a vital setting for:

all of the above

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

be returned to its former owners.

One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to:

ensure a fair and viable system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders.