The American Yawp Chapter 15 – Reconstruction Quiz

Which of the following goal of freedpeople was the least successful?

• Reuniting families

• Attending schools

• Gaining access to land

• Establishing independent churches

The Depression of 1873 began when a prominent business declared bankruptcy. What was the name of that company?

• Jay Cooke and Company

• Wells Fargo

• Bank of the United States

• B & O Railroad

General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 was intended to do which of the following?

• Destroy railroads in Georgia to weaken the Confederate war effort

• Create voting rights for African Americans in temporary Union southern legislatures

• Set aside land in Georgia and South Carolina as homesteads for freed people

• None of the above

Black churches helped to develop political organization in black communities by:

• serving as centers for community meetings and organizing efforts

• discouraging political involvement among members

• focusing only on religious activities and avoiding politics

• limiting communication between community members

What terrorist tactics did white southerners use to enforce racial hierarchies?

• Attacking black candidates and office holders and frightening voters with threats of violence

• Targeting freedpeople who tried to purchase land or otherwise become too independent from the white masters they used to rely on

• White men beat or shot black men with relative impunity, and did so over minor squabbles, labor disputes, longstanding grudges, and crimes of passion

• All of the above

The Compromise of 1877 did which of the following?

• Gave the presidency to Samuel J. Tilden

• Promised the removal of federal troops from the South

• Lost the White House for the Republican Party

• Solved problems of voter fraud in Virginia and Texas

How did the Fourteenth Amendment change American governance?

• Made slavery illegal in all American states

• Asserted the federal government’s power to enforce the Bill of Rights over the authority of the states

• Abolished vagrancy laws in the South

• Divided the U.S. South into five military zones to ensure the creation of fair state governments

What was the most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture?

• Sharecropping

• Wage labor

• Apprenticeships

• Chattel slavery

Black codes, including vagrancy laws had which of the following effects?

• Criminalized black leisure

• Limited black mobility

• Locked many into exploitative farming contracts

• All of the above

What was the term for the African American ladies memorial association that arranged the mourning for Union soldiers buried in Charleston?

• Daughters of Liberty

• Lights of Union

• Patriotic Association

• United Daughters of the Union