History 18 Chapter 15 Woichik

Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president.

Andrew Johnson

__________ 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 two denominations commanded the largest African-American following?

Baptist and Methodist

Tenure of Office Act

Barring the president from removing certain office holders

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

British Guiana

Redeemers

Democrats who redeemed the white south from corruption/misgovernment/northern & black control

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

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. (true or False)

False

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success. (True or False)

False

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

False

The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women. (True or False)

False

The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all (True or False)

False

Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions (True or False)

False

While corruption was almost nonexistent in the North, it was rampant in the South (True or False)

False

This 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 phrase, "forty acres and a mule," derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15

The phrase, "forty acres and a mule," derived from:

Sherman's Field Order 15

Sharecropping

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

What was being reconstructed (constructed again) in Reconstruction?

The Nation

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

The Tenure of Office Act

This is not true of the Liberal Republicans in the post-Civil War era

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

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

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

"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans (True or False)

True

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

True

Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools. (True or False)

True

Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers. (true or false)

True

Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent. (True or False)

True

During the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure (True or False)

True

In 1866, the Civil Rights Bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto. (True or False)

True

In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment had not altered traditional federalism. (True or False)

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 or False)

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, not to laws made by individual states. (True or False)

True

Robert Smalls, a black representative in the United States House of Representatives, was elected to five terms in Congress. (True or False)

True

Some 700 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction (true or false)

True

The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction. (True or False)

True

The country was plunged into an economic depression in 1873, and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened (True or False)

True

The country was plunged into an economic depression in 1873, and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened. (true or False)

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 or False)

True

he KKK was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party. (True or False)

True

lack Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote. (True or False)

True

Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s (True or False)

True)

_________________ was not a major cause of the decline of reconstruction

a deepening of mutual respect between black and white southerners, making Reconstruction seem no longer necessary

14th Amendment

all persons born in the US and which empowered the federal government to protect the rights of all americans

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

Freedmen's Bureau

an agency established by congress in March 1865 that attempted to establish a working free labor system

In the summer of 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands:

be returned to its former owners.

Civil Rights Bill of 1866

defined all persons born in the US as citizens

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 five military districts and called for 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.

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; the vote for adult black men

Crop Lien

growing of cotton and pledge a part of the crop as collateral

Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.

The was not a widespread activity among newly emancipated blacks?

moving to the North in search of greater freedom and opportunity

What is Free Labor?

non-slave labor in a market economy

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

ordered federal troops to be withdrawn from the South

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

ordered federal troops to be withdrawn from the south

Civil Rights Act of 1875

outlawed racial discrimination in public places

"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.

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

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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

15th Amendment

prohibited the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote

Bargain of 1877

pulling federal troops out of state politics in the south

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

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

support black churches and businesses

Reconstruction Act

temporarily divided the south into 5 military districts

Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that:

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

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

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.