APUSH Chapter 15

In 1865, southern blacks defined freedom as

• independence from white control

• land reform

• acquiring rights to live as whites did

• All answers are true

In the 1860s, the Black Codes

• passed by Congress to govern Confederate States

• designed to give whites control over freedmen

• vetoed by President Johnson

• enacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.

During Reconstruction, there was dramatic improvement in Southern

• transportation

• industry

• banking

• education

After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied oncredit from

• local banks

• the federal government

• northern financial institutions

• country stores

After the Civil War, most Black Southern women

• played a role in the famly that was very different from the white women

• did field work

• engaged in income producing activities

• did not hold a job outside of the home

At the conclusion of Johnson's impeachment trial to convict

• Johnson was acquitted by one vote

• Johnson was found guilty and then pardoned by the Senate

• every Senate Republican voted to

• Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote

In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system

• was generally imposed on blacks, but not white farmers.

• nearly disappeared during Reconstruction.

• encouraged the planting of crash crops

• led to crop diversification

Black sharecropping

• usually led to economic independence.

• represented a continuation of the pre-Civil War gang-labor system

• was a very common occupation of former slaves.

• differed sharply from the tenant system.

The fifteenth amendment dealt with the issue

• suffrage

• citizenship

• income tax

• cruel and unusual punishment

The fourteenth amendment

• ended slavery throughout the United States

• was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

• gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.

• gave voting rights to all male citizens