CH 15 (Exam 3)

Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president.

Andrew Johnson

Some 900 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction, yet few held local offices.

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

The victorious Republicans, the "Redeemers," claimed to have redeemed the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control.

False

Under the Black Codes enacted by southern legislatures immediately after the Civil War, blacks convicted of "vagrancy" were fined and, if unable to pay, were publicly hanged.

False

While Reconstruction brought profound changes, the postwar South remained comprised of people with the same social classes.

False

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.

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

True

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

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 from many white southerners inability to accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.

True

The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction."

True

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

True

The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

defined crimes that deprived citizens of their civil and political rights as federal offenses. Under these laws President Grant sent federal marshals to arrest hundreds of accused Klansmen.

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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because

it did not enfranchise women.

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

ordered federal troops to stop guarding the state houses in Louisiana and South Carolina.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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

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

saw the price of cotton fall steadily.