Ch. 15 "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877 Pt. 2 Flashcards
(21 cards)
After ___________, many freedwomen withdrew from work in the fields and focused their energies at home.
emancipation
After emancipation, many freedwomen withdrew from work in the fields and focused their energies at _____.
home
True or False: The Black Codes were laws passed by southern Republicans to promote black rights.
False
______ _______ and _________ _______ argued that planters’ land should be confiscated and redistributed among former slaves.
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters’ land should be __________ and ___________ among former slaves.
confiscated
redistributed
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters’ land should be confiscated and redistributed among former ______.
slaves
“__________” were southern white Republicans.
Scalawags
What are “Scalawags”?
southern white Republicans.
True or False: The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.
False
True or False: Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South’s top elected positions.
False
The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to ____________.
Reconstruction
The ________ __ _____ marked the formal end to Reconstruction.
Bargain of 1877
True or False: Presidential Reconstruction (1865–1867) was a success.
False
True or False: The Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, or vote.
True
In _____, the _____ ______ _____ became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.
1866
Civil Rights Bill
In 1866, the Civil Rights Bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a __________ ______.
presidential veto.
The period of ______ ____________ began in March 1867 with Congress’s adoption of the Reconstruction Act over the president’s veto and ended in 1877.
Radical Reconstruction
The period of Radical Reconstruction began in ______ _____ with Congress’s adoption of the Reconstruction Act over the president’s veto and ended in _____.
March 1867
1877
The period of Radical Reconstruction began in March 1867 with Congress’s adoption of the ___________ _____ over the president’s _____ and ended in 1877.
Reconstruction Act
veto
True or False: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, leading figures in the women’s rights movement, were strong supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment.
False
True or False: During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African Americans registered to vote.
True
