Chapter 15 "What is Freedom"

All of the victims of the Ku Klux Klan were black.

False

The victorious Republicans, the "Redeemers," claimed to have redeemed the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control.

False

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

False

The phrase "forty acres and a mule" derived from

Sherman's Field Order 15.

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

True

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

True

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

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

True

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 as a Tennessee secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

True

A "carpetbagger" is

a northerner who settled in the South after the war.

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.

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; and, for adult men, the right to vote

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

it did not enfranchise women.

The Black Codes were

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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

Before the Civil War, American citizenship had been closely linked to

race.

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