Chapter 15 - give me liberty study guide/chronological (copied)
Special Field Order 15 ; Freedmen's Bureau established ; Lincoln Assassinated ; Andrew Johnson becomes President
1865
Presidential Reconstruction Black Codes
1865-1867
Civil Rights Bill ; Ku Klux Klan Established
1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867 ; Tenure of Office Art
1867
Radical Reconstruction of 1867 (it's a trick question)
1867-1877
Impeachment and trail of President Johnson ; 14th (Fourteenth) Amendement Ratified
1868
Inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant ; Women's rights organization splits into two groups
1869
Hiram Revels, first black U. S. Senator ; 15th (Fifteenth) Amendment ratified
1870
Enforcement Acts
1870-1871
Liberal Republicans Established
1872
Colfax Massacre ; Slaughterhouse Cases ; National economic depression begins
1873
United States v Cruikshank
1876
Bargain of 1877
1877
Upon Lincoln's assassination, ____________ became president. (or, assuming it's been reworded, Upon Lincoln's assassination, who 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
In which of the following nations was the institution of slavery replaced by indentured servitude?
British Guiana
"Redeemers" saved the South from the corrupt ways of Reconstruction politics and redeemed the South for fair and equal treatment for all Americans.
F
In consequence of the Reconstruction governments across the South, the region became a vibrant and successful hub of dynamic and expansive economic growth, allowing many African Americans to escape from poverty.
F
Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.
F
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leading figures in the women's rights movement, were strong supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment.
F
The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights
F
The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.
F
The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.
F
Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.
F
While corruption was almost non-existent in the North, it was rampant in the South.
F
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.
"Scalawags" were southern white Republicans.
T
After emancipation, many freedwomen elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home.
T
Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction in state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.
T
Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers.
T
Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s.
T
Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote.
T
Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent.
T
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters' land should be confiscated and redistributed among former slaves.
T
During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African Americans registered to vote.
T
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.
T
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.
T
During the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.
T
In 1866, the Civil Rights Bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.
T
In 1873, the country was plunged into an economic depression and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.
T
In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment had not altered traditional federalism.
T
Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the distaste many southerners had for tax increases that were needed to fund public schools and other improvements, and also because many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.
T
Prior to ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights applied only to laws made by the federal government, not to laws made by individual states.
T
Robert Smalls, a black representative in the United States House of Representatives, was elected to five terms in Congress
T
Some 700 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction.
T
The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.
T
The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the Second Reconstruction.
T
The KKK was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party
T
The period of Radical Reconstruction began in March 1867 with Congress's adoption of the Reconstruction Act over the president's veto and ended in 1877.
T
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 (political mobilization, worship and 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.
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 federal troops withdrawn from the South.
"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 slave owners' 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.
Which was not a principal task of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?
support black churches and businesses
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
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
