Chapter 15 US History – Flashcards
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The House of Representatives approved articles of impeachement against President Andrew Johnson for violation of what law?
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The Tenure of Office Act
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"The destruction of slavery led feminists to search for ways to make the promise of free labor real for women." Define "feminists" in this context.
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Persons who held a view advocating social political, and other rights for women equal to those of men.
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitiution
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Prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race.
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In the summer of 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands to be:
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Returned to its former owners.
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In President Johnsons view what role did Africans Americans need to play in reconstruction
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None
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The Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871
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Defined crimes that deprivedd citizens of their civil and political rights as federal offenses; and under these laws president Grant sent federal marshals to arrest hundreds of accused klansmen
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Which of the following was not a central thrust of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitiution?
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Redistrubution of the former slaveowners' land among the freed slaves.
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Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction
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Were often convicted of vagrancy and fined; sometimes they were then auctioned off to work for the person who paid the fine.
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What is not true of Liberal Republicans in the post-civil war era?
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They believed the growth of federal power needed to be expanded.
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One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to
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Ensure a fair and viable system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders.
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Who were leaders fo the Radical republicans?
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Charles sumner, Thaddeus Stevens and Benjamin Wade
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Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the South
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Saw the price of cotton fall steadily
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Sharecropping:
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Allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.
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Which of the following was not a major cause of the declice of Reconstruction?
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a deepening of mutual respect between black and white southerners, making Reconsturction seem no longer necessary.
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The Black Codes:
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Laws saught to regulate the lives of former slaves.
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Who was president after Lincolns assassination
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Andrew Johnson
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The Reconsturction Act of March 1867:
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Divided the south into five military districts and called for creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.
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Free labor:
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Non-slave labor in a market economy
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Which was not a principal task of the Freedmen's Bureau
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To support black chruches and businesses
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True or False? After emancipation, many freedwomen withdrew from work in the fields and focused their energies at home.
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TRUE
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True or False? The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights.
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FALSE
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True or False? Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters' land should be confiscated and redistributed among former slaves.
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TRUE
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True or False? "Scalawags" were southern white Republicans.
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TRUE
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True or False? The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.
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FALSE
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True or False? Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.
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FALSE
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True or False? The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.
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TRUE
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True or False? Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.
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FALSE
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True or False? The Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote.
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TRUE
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True or False? In 1866, the Civil Rights Bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.
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TRUE
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True or False? 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.
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TRUE
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FALSE
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True or False? During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African Americans registered to vote.
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TRUE
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True or False? 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.
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TRUE
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True or False? Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction in state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.
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TRUE
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True or False? The Reconstruction governments helped turn the South into a vibrant and successful hub of dynamic and expansive economic growth, allowing many African Americans to escape from poverty.
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FALSE
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True or False? While corruption was almost nonexistent in the North, it was rampant in the South.
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FALSE
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True or False? Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the distaste many southerners had for tax increases to fund public schools and other mandated improvements, and also because many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting, holding office, and enjoying equality before the law.
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TRUE
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True or False? The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.
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TRUE
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True or False? In 1873, the country was plunged into an economic depression and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.
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TRUE
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True or False? In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment had not altered traditional federalism.
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TRUE
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True or False? Redeemers saved the South from the corrupt ways of Reconstruction politics and "redeemed" the South for fair and equal treatment for all Americans.
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FALSE
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True or False? Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s.
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TRUE
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True or False? The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the Second Reconstruction.
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TRUE
