Ch. 15 T/f

Front 1

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

Back 1

True

Front 2

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

Back 2

False

Front 3

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

Back 3

True

Front 4

"Scalawags" were southern white Republicans.

Back 4

True

Front 5

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

Back 5

False

Front 6

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

Back 6

False

Front 7

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

Back 7

True

Front 8

The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers.

Back 9

True

Front 10

Presidential Reconstruction (1865–1867) was a success.

Back 10

False

Front 11

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

Back 11

True

Front 12

Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent.

Back 12

True

Front 13

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

Back 13

True

Front 14

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.

Back 14

True

Front 15

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.

Back 15

True

Front 16

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

Back 16

False

Front 17

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

Back 17

True

Front 18

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.

Back 18

True

Front 19

Some 700 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction.

Back 19

True

Front 20

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

Back 20

False

Front 21

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

Back 21

True

Front 22

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.

Back 22

True

Front 23

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

Back 23

False

Front 24

While corruption was almost non-existent in the North, it was rampant in the South.

Back 24

False

Front 25

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.

Back 25

True

Front 26

The KKK was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

Back 26

True

Front 27

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

Back 27

False

Front 28

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

Back 28

True

Front 29

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

Back 29

True

Front 30

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

Back 30

False

Front 31

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

Back 31

True

Front 32

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

Back 32

True