Chapter 15

Question 1

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 1

Helped adjudcate labor disputes in the summer and fall of 1865. Led by Oliver Otis

Question 2

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 2

Outlawed slavery in the united states

Question 3

Fourteenth Amendment

Answer 3

gave citizenship to all people born in the US

Question 4

Fifteenth Amendment

Answer 4

Denied the right to vote on the basis of race

Question 5

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 5

Pennsylvania Republican. Helped lead the radical republicans in Congress. Pro freedom for African Americans

Question 6

Martin Delaney

Answer 6

Highest ranking black officer during the civil war. Said slavery will not return

Question 7

Sharecroppers

Answer 7

set their own schedules and supervised themselves in the field, but it was usually landowners who chose crops

Question 8

crop lien

Answer 8

represented farm workers’ claim to ownership of the crops they raised

Question 9

Knights of Labor

Answer 9

Broad organization of workers doing protest in the 1880s

Question 10

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 10

Violent opponents of Reconstruction and black freedom during 1865

Question 11

Homestead Act

Answer 11

allowed families to claim 160 acres of land if they improved it over five years of residence.

Question 12

Black codes

Answer 12

a series of laws adopted by state governments in the fall of 1865 pertaining to the extent and limit of black freedom