Chapter 15 Quiz Hist 1103

Which of the following was not a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction?

A deepening mutual respect between black and white southerners, making Reconstruction seem no longer necessary.

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.

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False

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

False

Which of the following was not a major effect of Reconstruction (at its height) on southern society?

It inspired a mass exodus of southern blacks to lands that had never known slavery.

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

Moving to the North in search of greater freedom and opportunity.

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

True

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

True

The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction

True

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as the military arm of the democratic party.

True

Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the south faced:

a steady decrease in cotton prices

The Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.

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

political mobilization, worship, and schooling.

In which of the following nations was the institution of slavery replaced by indentured servitude?

British Guiana

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

False

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

None

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race.

The phrase "forty acres and a mule" derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15

What were the central elements in the lives of postemancipation blacks during the twenty years after the Civil War?

The family, the church, the school

What was being Reconstructed (constructed again) in Reconstruction?

The nation

Which was not true of Liberal Republicans in the post-Civil War era?

They believed the growth of federal power needed to be expanded.

"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans.

True

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

True

During the 1872 elections, the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.

True

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

ordered federal troops to return to their barracks.

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

support black churches and buisnesses

Upon Lincoln's assassination, _______became president.

Andrew Johnson

Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.

False

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

True

Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era

viewed the Union victory as a golden opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights for all, regardless of race.

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.

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

False

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

False

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

False

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

False

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

The Tenure of Office Act

After emancipation, many freed-women elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home

True

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

True

Due to the presence of 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.

True

During Reconstruction, a number of state governments initiated civil rights legislation that mad eit illegal for railroads, hotels, and other institutions to discriminate on the basis of race.

True

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

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

True

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

True

Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from many southerner's distaste for the tax increases needed to fund public schools and other improvements, as well as their refusal to accept black Americans' right to vote, hold office, or enjoy equality before the law.

True

The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "second Reconstruction."

True

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

True

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.

True

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

be returned to its former owners

The Reconstruction Act of March 1867:

divided the South into five military districts and called for the 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