Give Me Liberty: Chapter 15 REVIEW QUIZ 1

6. The phrase "forty acres and a mule" is derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15.

3. A "carpetbagger" is

a northerner who settled in the South after the war.

2. One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870) was to

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

7. What statement accurately describes sharecropping?

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

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

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

( ). 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 United States House of Representatives and two U.S. senators.

True

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

True

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

True

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

True

14. 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.)

5. What did the three amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee to former slaves shortly after the Civil War? (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; and the vote for adult black men.

12. What was the significance of the Reconstruction Act of March 1867

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

9. The Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.

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

none

13. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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

1. 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? In a society that had made political participation a core element of freedom, this activity became central to the former slaves' desire for empowerment and equality.

right to vote within two years of the end of slavery. right to vote

( ) Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that

the Union victory created a golden opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights for all, regardless of race.

15. Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution helped to create

the first national biracial democracy in world history.

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

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