U.S. History since 1877 Quiz 1 Study Guide for A or 90% and higher.

For Quiz 1 Tuesday for A or 90% and higher.

General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15

d – set aside land to distribute among Black families

Anything less than __ for African Americans would betray the Civil War’s meaning

b – full citizenship

How did the Civil War affect planter families?

a – For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor

In the Republican free labor vision of a reconstructed South

d – Southern Black and northern white workers would enjoy the same opportunities, and the South would become more like the North

The Freedmen’s Bureau’s greatest accomplishments were in

d – education and health care

What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War?

b – He returned it to the original owners

Sharecropping

e – was preferred by African Americans to gang labor, because they were less subject to supervision

How can Andrew Johnson be compared to Abraham Lincoln?

e – Johnson was more stubborn and less willing to compromise than Lincoln

The southern Black Codes

a – allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of formerly enslaved people who failed to sign yearly labor contracts

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Radical Republicans?

e – They promoted the ideal of a strong federal government able to protect the rights of all Americans

Which of the following statements is true of the Fourteenth Amendment?

c – It prohibited all states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person

The Fifteenth Amendment

a – banned governments from denying the right to vote on the basis of race

How did the Reconstruction amendments change the role of government?

c – They set the stage for the federal government to protect the freedoms of vulnerable minorities

During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone who supported a woman’s right to vote

c – found themselves divided over whether to support the Fifteenth Amendment

During Radical Reconstruction in the South

a – the first interracial governments in U.S. history accomplished a great deal, despite violent opposition

Which statement is true about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

b – The KKK was a terrorist organization that attacked Black and white Republicans during Reconstruction

The Enforcement Acts

a – drove the Ku Klux Klan out of existence in 1872

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that

a – most rights of citizens were under the control of state governments rather than the federal government

What was one reason the church became a central institution in Black life after the Civil War?

e – It was a space where Blacks could be free of white control

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

c – outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation

Which Reconstruction-era legal development set the United States apart from many other countries?

a – the principle of birthright citizenship established in the Fourteenth Amendment

After the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, which group was still not guaranteed a constitutional right to vote?

a – women

Why did Reconstruction fail to lift many southern Blacks out of poverty?

a – It emphasized political gains, like the right to vote, rather than economic gains, such as land ownership

The Fourteenth Amendment eventually led to which future Supreme Court outcome?

b – the legalization of gay marriage

Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers when they assumed power in the South?

e – public schools

Henry Grady promoted the idea of a New South based on

c – industrial expansion and agricultural diversification

The Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

a – argued that segregated facilities did not discriminate

Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?

d – the victim’s alleged sexual conduct

Which of the following was Ida B. Wells’ purpose as a journalist and lecturer?

b – to denounce racial terrorism

How did the Civil War come to be remembered by the 1890s?

b – as a war of “brother against brother”