US History 2 Chapter 15 Practice Quiz

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

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

Special Field Order 15

1865

Civil Rights Bill

1866

Tenure of Office Act

1867

Fourteenth Amendment ratified

1868

Women's feminist organization splits into two groups

1869

Fifteenth Amendment ratified

1870

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.

In the summer of 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered 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 creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.

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

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 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

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.

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.

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

Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the South:

Saw the price of cotton fall steadily.

Which were central elements in the lives of postemancipation blacks in the twenty years following the end of the Civil War?

The family, The church, The school

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

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

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 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

The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.

True

The 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

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.