Chapter 15

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 series of events is listed in proper sequence?

ratification of Thirteenth Amendment; Tenure of Office Act; impeachment of Johnson; election of Grant

Which was not a principal task of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

support black churches and businesses.

What was being reconstructed (constructed again) in Reconstruction?

the nation

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

British Guiana

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

False

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

False

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

False

Which of the following was not a major effect of Reconstruction (at its height) on southern society?

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

The phrase "forty races and a mule" derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15.

The House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson for violation of what law?

The Tenure of Office Act

Which was not true of Liberal Republicans in the post-Civil War era?

They believed the growth of federal power needed to be expanded.

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

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

In the Slaughter Cases (1873), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment had not altered traditional federalism.

True

The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.

True

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

True

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

a steady decrease in cotton prices.

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

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

moving to the North in search of greater freedom and opportunity

In President Andrew John's view, African-Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction?

none

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

ordered federal troops to return to their barracks.