HIST Chpt 15 Self-Quiz

Which of the following refers to Reconstruction? Each state was required to emancipate the slaves within its borders before it could be considered for readmission to the Union Reconstruction was an organized process Congress and the president agreed on the aims of Reconstruction Freedmen and women were consulted about the process and goals of Reconstruction

Each state was required to emancipate the slaves within its borders before it could be considered for readmission to the Union

The Thirteenth Amendment guarantees African American men the right to vote. True False

False

The election of 1876 was without controversy. True False

False

Regarding the election of 1876, Democrat Samuel Tilden clearly won the electoral vote Republican-controlled Congress chose to interpret voting irregularities in several southern states so that Tilden won those contested electoral votes Tilden was elected president of the United States None of the above

None of the above

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a prominent women's rights advocate in the nineteenth century. True False

True

Establishing civil and political rights for freedmen and women following the Civil War was eventually settled by amendments to the U.S. Constitution. True False

True

The strongest power in labor contracts that freedmen and women had was the shortage of labor in the South. True False

True

The Fifteenth Amendment gave the right to vote to any American 21 years of age or older gave the vote to all adult African Americans prohibited state governments from using literacy tests to prevent blacks from voting forbade states to deny any citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous status as a slave

forbade states to deny any citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous status as a slave

The Ku Klux Klan was initially successful because the nation as a whole supported the Klan's activities political rivalry between Democrats and Republicans in 1867 had weakened the government's ability to prevent its activity Confederate soldiers refused to accept that the war had ended the organization accepted women and children from its inception, providing it with a large and covert operational base

political rivalry between Democrats and Republicans in 1867 had weakened the government's ability to prevent its activity

The Black Codes restricted the civil rights of freedpeople because it was illegal to teach freed people to read and write these laws exposed them to subjective vagrancy laws freed slaves were not allowed to take oaths of loyalty African Americans who had fought for the Union or who were sympathetic to the Union could be punished by law

these laws exposed them to subjective vagrancy laws

Andrew Johnson was originally a Jacksonian Democrat hated the "bloated, corrupt aristocracy" of the Northeast hated southern planters All of the above

All of the above

Reconstruction came to an end because of events in the North and the South a nationwide outbreak of political corruption that made voters angry northern Liberals abandoning the Republican Party All of the above

All of the above

The Banks Plan was a series of labor regulations that put freedmen back to work as quickly as possible required African Americans to sign year-long contracts, often with former masters was intended to stop the flow of African American refugees to Union supply lines All of the above

All of the above

The Freedmen's Bureau supervised renting land to former slaves distributed the money that Congress appropriated to help former slaves purchase land, livestock, and tools distributed confiscated land to "loyal refugees and freedmen." All of the above

All of the above

What was radical about Congressional Reconstruction? The belief that the right of southern blacks to vote should be not be prohibited Political power had to be put in the hands of all-male freedmen Johnson's move to urge southern states to reject the Fourteenth Amendment All of the above

All of the above

Two institutions that became central to the southern black community during Reconstruction were the Union Army; the Confederate Army the Union Army; the Freedmen's Bureau Churches; the Union Army Churches; schools

Churches; schools

One advantage of sharecropping was that it allowed freed people to work as families and organize their labor themselves sharecroppers earned cash wage supplements in addition to their shares sharecroppers never had to answer to a master food and supplies were provided by the landowner

it allowed freed people to work as families and organize their labor themselves

The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 provided that ten percent of a southern state's adult white males had to swear an oath of allegiance to the Union that former Confederates could not vote or hold elected office that a majority of a southern state's adult white males had to swear an oath of allegiance to the Union for the protection of owners' rights to property

that a majority of a southern state's adult white males had to swear an oath of allegiance to the Union

Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued that feminists had to understand that in 1865, the political needs of African Americans were more critical than the political needs of American women women were too emotionally feeble to withstand the demands of political decision making only educated whites should be allowed to vote the best way to solve the issue was to permit suffrage based on intelligence and restrict it based on illiteracy

the best way to solve the issue was to permit suffrage based on intelligence and restrict it based on illiteracy

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 barely passed the Congress was the first time that the federal government intervened in the states to guarantee due process and basic civil rights was forced on the northern states was enthusiastically supported by Johnson

was the first time that the federal government intervened in the states to guarantee due process and basic civil rights