Chapter 15 US History

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All of the following are true of passage of the Fifteenth Amendment EXCEPT:
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it aided the election of Ulysses Grant to the presidency in 1868. Correct
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Andrew Johnson:
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lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion. Correct
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Black officeholders during Reconstruction:
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helped ensure a degree of fairness in the treatment of African-American citizens.
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During Reconstruction, southern state governments helped to finance:
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Rainroads
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During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community:
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was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches.
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During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton who supported a woman's right to vote:
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found themselves divided over whether or not to support the Fifteenth Amendment. Correct
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General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order 15:
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set aside the Sea Islands and 40-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.
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Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black:
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U.S. senators.
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How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?
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The black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers.
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How did the Civil War affect planter families?
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For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor. Correct
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Howard University is well known as:
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a black university in Washington, D.C.
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In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the __________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.
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Reconstruction Act
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In the "Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" (1865), what are the freedmen requesting?
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the right to purchase a homestead
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Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been:
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non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War.
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Sharecropping:
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was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).
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Southern Republicans during Reconstruction:
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established the South's first state-supported schools.
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The Bargain of 1877:
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allowed for white Democratic control of the South.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866:
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defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.
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The crop-lien system:
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kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
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The election of 1876:
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was tainted by claims of fraud in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
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The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to:
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stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Fifteenth Amendment:
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sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.
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The Fourteenth Amendment:
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marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
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The Freedmen's Bureau:
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made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care.
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The northern vision of the Reconstruction-era southern economy included all of the following EXCEPT:
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the labor system would be as close to slavery as possible, thereby assuring high productivity.
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The southern Black Codes:
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allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that:
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most rights of citizens are under the control of state governments rather than the federal government.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1873 case in which Myra Bradwell challenged an Illinois statute excluding women from practicing law:
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demonstrates that, while racial definitions of freedom were changing, gendered ones still existed.
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The Whiskey Ring scandal took place during the administration of:
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Ulysses Grant.
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What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?
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He, at least allegedly, violated the Tenure of Office Act.
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When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he:
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argued that it discriminated against whites.
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Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?
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Blacks adopted different ways of testing their freedom, including moving about, seeking kin, and rejecting older forms of deferential behavior.
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Which of the following is NOT true about Andrew Johnson?
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Through hard work, he rose into the planter class and then became a successful politician.
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Which of the following is NOT true of Thaddeus Stevens?
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He represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.
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Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of southern governments run by Republicans during Reconstruction?
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widespread transformation of plantations into black-owned farms
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White farmers in the late nineteenth-century South:
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included many sharecroppers involved in the crop-lien system.
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Who claimed in the 1870s to have converted the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control?
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Redeemers
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As part of the Bargain of 1877, President Grant appointed a southerner to his Cabinet.
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False
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Because of land redistribution, the vast majority of rural freedmen and freedwomen prospered during Reconstruction.
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False
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Black ministers during Reconstruction played a major role in politics, holding some 250 public offices.
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True
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Black suffrage made little difference in the South as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during Reconstruction.
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False
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By the mid-1870s, white farmers were cultivating as much as 80 percent of the region's cotton crop.
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False
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The 1873 depression strengthened the North's resolve to ensure the success of Reconstruction as the depression really hurt the South's farmers, highlighting the need for reform in the region.
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False
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While Republicans were in power in the South, they established the region's first state-supported public schools.
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True
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With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, all people born in the United States were automatically citizens.
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True