Chapter 15 Review Quiz

Upon Lincoln's assassination, ___________ became president

Andrew Johnson

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

All of the victims of the Ku Klux Klan were black (T/F)

False

The victorious Republicans, the "Redeemers," claimed to have redeemed the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control (T/F)

False

The 1865 agency responsible for the attempt to establish a working free labor system was called the

Freedmen's Bureau

Among the important accimplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools (T/F)

True

Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote (T/F)

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 (T/F)

True

In 1866, the civil rights bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto (T/F)

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 (T/F)

True

Which of the following was not a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction

a deepening of mutual respect between black and white southerners, making Reconstruction seem no longer necessary

A "carpetbagger" is

a northerner who settled in the South after the war

Sharecropping

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

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

be returned to its former owners

Many women saw the opportunity to insert their issues into the reforming nation. Their immediate main concerns were all of the following EXCEPT a. more job opportunities for women b. liberalizing divorce laws c. the right to vote d. outlawing the sale and manufacture of liquor

d. outlawing the sale and manufacture of liquor

The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

defined crimes that deprived citizens of their civil and political rights as federal offenses, and under these laws President Grant sent federal marshals to arrest hundreds of accused Klansmen

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

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

In the five years following the end of the Civil War, former slaves were guaranteed the following in three amendments to the United States Constitution

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

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

it did not enfranchise women

The Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves

In consequence of the "Bargain of 1877," President Rutherford B. Hayes

ordered federal troops to stop guarding the state houses in Louisiana and South Carolina

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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

Before the Civil War, American citizenship had been closely linked to

race

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 peron who paid the fine