Give Me Liberty: Chapter #15

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Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president

Andrew Johnson

Who among the following 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

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

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

Which of the following 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

During Reconstruction, the black church functioned as a vital setting for

all of the above

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

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

The Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves

Which of the following was not a widespread activity among newly emancipated blacks

moving to the North in search of greater freedom and opportunity

As meant in the section on the free labor system, define "free labor"

non-slave labor in a market economy

In President Andrew Johnson's view, African-Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction

none

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

ordered that future bargains, such as those promoted by the corrupt politicians involved in the Whiskey Ring, be made illegal

"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 series of events is listed in proper sequence

ratification of Thirteenth Amendment, Tenure of Office Act, impeachment of Johnson, election of Grant

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

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

returned to its former owners

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

saw the price of cotton fall steadily

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 post-emancipation blacks in the twenty years following the end of the Civil War

the family, the church, the school

What was being reconstructed (constructed again) in Reconstruction

the nation

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

to support black churches and businesses

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


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