History

For blacks, freedom meant all of the following, except

?

Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president.

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson granted very few pardons to former Confederates during his Presidential Reconstruction.

False

The incident that caused a clash between Congress and President Johnson was

Johnson's veto of a bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.

americas first black governor was

Pinckney B.S. Pinchback

Who became president in 1877?

Rutherford B. Hayes

Which action made it possible for blacks to gain land and spread rumors of blacks receiving "forty acres and a mule?"

Sherman's Field Order 15

"Scalawags" were southern whites who sided with the Republicans to keep Confederates from returning to power.

True

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

all of the above- political motivation, worship, schooling

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

Which president was a tailor by trade and taught himself to read?

andrew johnson

The Ku Klux Klan worked to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.

false

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

Who was the first black senator in American history?

hiram revels

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

none

the Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to women.

nope

Who headed the Freedmen's Bureau?

oliver O howard

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution:

prohibited federal and state governments from denying voting rights based on race.

The Freedman's Bureau

provided job assistance, settled legal disputes, and protected legal rights of former slaves

The Fourteenth Amendment

ratified in 1868, made all people born or naturalized in the U.S. citizens, including former slaves, and made it illegal to deprive people "of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."

Democrats who regained control of governments in the south called themselves ____.

redeemers

President Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands

returned to its former owners

President Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands: Question options:

returned to its former owners

What was being reconstructed (constructed again) during Reconstruction?

the nation

The House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson for violating what law?

the tenure office act

Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South until the 1890s

true

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

true

During Reconstruction some 2,000 African-Americans held public office. Question options:

true

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

true

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

true

The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment resulted in numerous African Americans being elected to local offices.

true

Political corruption during Reconstruction

was common in North and South

Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction:

were often convicted, jailed and leased out to work