Ch 15 History Quiz

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 phrase "forty acres and a mule" is derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15.

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

True.

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

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.

The KKK was founded in 1866 as a secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

True.

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

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

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

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.

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

They should have no role in shaping policies.

A "carpetbagger" was

a northerner who settled in the South after the war.

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.

The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction."

True.

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

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

The Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves in the South.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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

What activity made the postemancipation 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

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

were often arrested and hired out to white landowners.