Chapter 15 Flashcards
When did Reconstruction begin?
Before the war ended
Black codes, including vagrancy laws had which of the following effects?
All of the above
How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance?
Asserted the federal government’s power to enforce the Bill of Rights over the
authority of the states
Black delegates actively participated in revising the state constitutions of southern states. In
addition to election reform, what other major accomplishment did these delegates achieve?
Established public school systems
General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 was intended to do which of the
following?
Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads for freed people
Which of the following goal of freedpeople was the least successful?
Gaining access to land
How did black churches help to develop political organization in black communities?
All of the above
Why did women’s rights leaders oppose the Fourteenth Amendment?
It introduced the word “male” into the Constitution for the first time
What was the term for the African American ladies memorial association that arranged the
mourning for Union soldiers buried in Charleston?
Patriotic Association
What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies?
All of the above
Why did the Ku Klux Klan attack Allen Huggins?
He was a white sheriff and tax collector who supported freedpeople’s civil rights
What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?
Sharecropping
What was the most significant change in the American economy as a result of the Civil War?
Increased presence of the federal government in the economy
The Depression of 1873 began when a prominent business declared bankruptcy. What was
the name of that company?
Jay Cooke and Company
The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following?
Promised the removal of federal troops from the South
