QUIZ 15 T/F

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

False.

Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.

False.

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

False.

After emancipation, many freedwomen elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their energies at home.

True.

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

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 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.

True.

Prior to ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights applied only to laws made by the federal government, and not to laws made by individual states.

True.

Robert Smalls, a black representative in the U.S. House of Representatives, was elected to five terms in Congress.

True.

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

True.