Chapter 15 Quiz US History

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

True

The once prosperous Confederate General Braxton Bragg returned from the Civil War to find he had lost everything and lived for some time with his wife in a slave cabin.

True

There were cases of freed slaves returning to the land they had previously worked demanding that they were "joint heirs" of the estate.

True

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False

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

False

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

False

What was the significance of the Reconstruction Act of March 1867?

It divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.

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

They should have no role in shaping policies.

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

True

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.

True

During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators.

True

Today, most countries aside from the United States, including all nations in Europe, limit automatic access to what right via ethnicity, culture, or religion?

birthright citizenship

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" is derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15

The Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution helped to create

the first national biracial democracy in world history.

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

be returned to its former owners.

In Mississippi in 1875, armed white rifle clubs drilled in public and openly assaulted ___________.

Republicans

What activity made the postemancipation experience in the United States unique from other societies and became central to the former slaves' desire for empowerment and equality?

the right to vote within two years of the end of slavery

What was one of the principal tasks and objectives of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

settling disputes between whites and blacks and among the freed people

What was one of the central demands of feminists during Reconstruction?

the widespread availability of the birth control pill

Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the fact that many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.

True

Who was the first black senator elected in U.S. history in 1870?

Hiram Revels

What event took place in Colfax, Louisiana, in 1873?

The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place, with armed whites massacring scores of former slaves.

What was a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction?

a growing perception among northerners that southern blacks were unfit for equal citizenship

As part of the "Bargain of 1877," President Rutherford B. Hayes ordered federal troops in _________ to return to their barracks and stop guarding state houses.

the South

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

the Tenure of Office Act

Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that

the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race.

Which statement accurately describes sharecropping?

It 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.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because

it outlawed discrimination in voting based on race but not gender.