HY 121 - US since 1877 - Chp 15

Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president.

Andrew Johnson

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

False

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

False

True or 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) upon southern society?

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

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

Sherman's Field Order 15

What was being reconstructed (constructed again) 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

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

True

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

True

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

True

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

True

True or False: During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African-Americans registered to vote.

True

True or False: 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

True or False: 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

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

True

True or False: 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

True or False: 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

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.

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

"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

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

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