History Quiz 15

During Reconstruction, the black church functioned as a vital setting for: A. political mobilization. B. worship. C. all of the above. D. schooling.

C. All of the above

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

While corruption was almost nonexistent in the North, it was rampant in the South.

False

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

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

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

True

The country was plunged into an economic depression in 1873, and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.

True

The Reconstruction Act of March 1867:

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

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 was not a central thrust of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution?

redistribution of the former slaveowners' land among the freed slaves

Which were central elements in the lives of postemancipation blacks in the twenty years following the end of the Civil War?

the family, the church, the school

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the black church was a powerful influence in the South; what two denominations commanded the largest African-American following?

Baptist and Methodist

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False

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

True

Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers.

True

Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote.

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

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

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

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

none

Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the South:

saw the price of cotton fall steadily.

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

support black churches and businesses