History 1302 Chapter 15

During the reconstruction the Black church functioned as a vital setting for

All of the above

upon lincoln's assassination, _____ became president.

Andrew Johnson

who among the following was NOT a leader of the radical republicans?

Andrew Johnson

In the aftermath of the civil war, the black church was a powerful influence in the south. what 2 denominators commanded the largest African - American following?

Baptist and Methodist

Radical republicans in the Reconstruction Era:

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

In which of the following nations was the institution of slavery replaced by indentured servitude?

China

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

"Redeemers" saved the South from the corrupt ways of Reconstruction politics and redeemed the South for fair and equal treatment for all Americans.

False

In consequence of the 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.

False

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leading figures in the women's rights movement, were strong supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment.

False

The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights

False

The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.

False

The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.

False

Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.

False

Whereas corruption was almost nonexistent in the North, it was rampant in the South.

False

what was being reconstructed 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" were southern white Republicans

True

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

True

Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.

True

Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers.

True

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

True

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

True

During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African-Americans registered to vote

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

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 1873, the country was plunged into an economic depression and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.

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 the distaste many southerners had for tax increases that were needed to fund public schools and other improvements, and also because many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.

True

Prior to ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights applied only to laws made by the federal government, and not to laws made by individual states.

True

Robert Smalls, a black representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, was elected to five terms in Congress.

True

Some 700 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction.

True

The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.

True

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

True

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

True

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

True

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

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

which of the following was NOT a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction

a deepening of mutual respect between black and white southerns making reconstruction seem no longer necessary

Sharecropping:

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

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 5 military districts and called for the creation of new state government with black men given the right to vote.

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

federal troops to return to their barracks

In the 5 years following the end of the civil war former slaves were granted the following in three amendments to the US constitution:

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

which of the following was NOT a major effect of reconstruction (at its height) upon southern society?

it inspired a mass exodus of southern blacks to lands that had never known slavery.

the black codes were:

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.

which of the following was not a widespread activity among newly emancipated blacks?

moving to the north in search of greater freedom and opportunity

As meant in the section on the free labor system, define "free labor"

non-slave labor in a market economy

in president andrew johnson's view, african americans ought to play what part in reconstruction?

none

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 person who paid the fine.

"The destruction of slavery led feminists to search for ways to make the promise of free labor real for women." Define "feminists" in this context.

people who held a view advocating social, political, and other rights for women equal to those of men

The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

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

which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

ratification of the thirteenth amendment; tensure of office act; impeachment of johnson; election of grant

which of the following was NOT a central thrust of the reconstruction amendments to the constitution

redistribution of the former slave owners land among the freed slaves

in the summer of 1865 president andrew johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands:

returned to its former owners

following the civil war, white and black farmers in the south:

saw the price of cotton fall steadily

the phrase "forty acres and a mule" was derieved from:

sherman's field order 15

which were central elements in the lives of post-emancipation blacks in the 20yrs. following the end of the civil war?

the family, the church, and the school

the house of representives approved artiles of impeachment against president andrew johnson for violation of what law?

the tenure of office act

which was not a principal task of the freedmen's bureau (1865-1870)?

to support black churches and business