History Chapter 15 Quiz

Which statement accurately describes the Civil Rights Bill of 1866?

Congress defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race

Redeemers were REPUBLICANS who took control in the South during the 1870s

False

In what way could Reconstruction policy be considered a success?

It established an amendment promising equal protection for all

Which of the following describes the Freedmen's Bureau?

It made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care

What was the purpose of the Fifthteenth Amendment?

It sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race

How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln?

Johnson was more stubborn and less willing to compromise than Lincoln when making decisions

How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

The black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers

Which of the following is true of a typical sharecropping contract?

The contract often resulted in an imposed type of economic slavery

Which statement accurately describes the crop-lien system or sharecropping system?

The system kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty

Which of the following best describes the Radical Republicans who came to power in 1866?

They fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War

Carpetbaggers were northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction

True

The Compromise of 1877 effectively ended Reconstruction

True

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been

non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War

What was the purpose of the southern Black Codes imposed immediately after the Civil War ended?

to allow the arrest of freedmen who failed to sign yearly labor contracts on vagrancy charges

What was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?

to specifically define who would be guaranteed equal treatment under the Constitution