HIST-1700-0035 Chapter 15 Diagnostic Quiz

Which was a central thrust of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution?

-equal citizenship for blacks and whites -the right to vote, regardless of race -empowerment of the federal government to protect citizens' rights

Which was a principal task of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

-establish schools -secure equal treatment before the courts for former slaves -provide aid to the poor and aged

Which was a widespread activity among newly emancipated blacks?

-seeking to obtain land of their own -learning how to read and write -moving about just to get the feel of freedom

Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president.

Andrew Johnson

The phrase "forty acres and a mule" derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15

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

True

Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s.

True

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

True

Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters' land should be confiscated and redistributed among former slaves.

True

During Reconstruction, a number of state governments initiated civil rights legislation that made it illegal for railroads, hotels, and other institutions to discriminate on the basis of race.

True

During the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.

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

The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction."

True

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.