Chapter 15 Quiz Hist 1103
Which of the following was not a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction?
A deepening mutual respect between black and white southerners, making Reconstruction seem no longer necessary.
Sharecropping
Allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.
Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.
False
While corruption was almost nonexistent in the North, it was rampant in the South.
False
Which of the following was not a major effect of Reconstruction (at its height) on southern society?
It inspired a mass exodus of southern blacks to lands that had never known slavery.
Which of the following was not a widespread activity among newly emancipated balcks?
Moving to the North in search of greater freedom and opportunity.
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters' land should be confiscated and redistributed among their former slaves.
True
During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African Americans registered to vote.
True
The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction
True
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as the military arm of the democratic party.
True
Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the south faced:
a steady decrease in cotton prices
The Black Codes were
laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.
During Reconstruction, the black church functioned as a vital setting for:
political mobilization, worship, and schooling.
In which of the following nations was the institution of slavery replaced by indentured servitude?
British Guiana
The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all
False
In president Andrew Johnson's view, African Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction?
None
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race.
The phrase "forty acres and a mule" derived from
Sherman's Field Order 15
What were the central elements in the lives of postemancipation blacks during the twenty years after the Civil War?
The family, the church, the school
What was being Reconstructed (constructed again) in Reconstruction?
The nation
Which was not true of Liberal Republicans in the post-Civil War era?
They believed the growth of federal power needed to be expanded.
"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans.
True
Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools
True
During the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.
True
In consequence of the Bargain of 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes
ordered federal troops to return to their barracks.
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
Which was not a principal task of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?
support black churches and buisnesses
Upon Lincoln's assassination, _______became president.
Andrew Johnson
Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.
False
Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s
True
Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era
viewed the Union victory as a golden opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights for all, regardless of race.
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.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leading figures in the women's rights movement, were strong supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment.
False
The "Redeemers" saved the South from the corrupt ways of Reconstruction politics and redeemed the south for fair and equal treatment for all Americans
False
The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote blacks' rights.
False
The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.
False
The House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson for violation of what law?
The Tenure of Office Act
After emancipation, many freed-women elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home
True
Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias or vote.
True
Due to the presence of 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.
True
During Reconstruction, a number of state governments initiated civil rights legislation that mad eit 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
In 1866, the Civil Rights Bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.
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 many southerner's distaste for the tax increases needed to fund public schools and other improvements, as well as their refusal to accept black Americans' right to vote, hold office, or enjoy equality before the law.
True
The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "second Reconstruction."
True
The country was plunged into and economic depression in 1873, and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.
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
In the summer of 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered that nearly all land in federal hands:
be returned to its former owners
The Reconstruction Act of March 1867:
divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.
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