Chapter 15: Give Me Liberty! (True or False)

Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the Souths top elected positions.

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

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False

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

False

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leading figures in the women's right movement, were strong supporters of the 15th Amendment.

False

The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights.

False

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

False

The KKK sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.

False

The Reconstruction governments helped turn the South into a vibrant and successful hub dynamic and expansive economic growth, allowing many African Americans to escape from poverty.

False

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

False

"Scalawags" were southern white Republicans.

True

After emancipation, many freed-women withdrew from work in the fields and focused their energies at home.

True

Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction in state governments was the establishment of South's first state-supported public schools.

True

Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890's.

True

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

True

During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the 15th Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African Americans registered to vote.

True

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

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

True

In 1873, the country was plunged into an economic depression and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.

True

In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment had not altered traditional federalism.

True

Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the distaste many southerners had for tax increases to fund public schools and other mandated improvements, and also because many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.

True

The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.

True

The Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote.

True

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

True

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

True

The period of Radical Reconstruction began in March 1867 with Congress' adoption of the Reconstruction Act over the president's veto and ended in 1877.

True