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HY 121 - US since 1877 - Chp 15Which of the following was not a major effect of Reconstruction (at its height) upon southern society? -
correct answer ✔✔It inspired a mass exodus of southern blacks to lands that had never known slavery.
After emancipation, many freedwomen elected to withdraw from work in the fields and focus their
energies at home.
True or False - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens argued that planters' land should be confiscated
and redistributed among former slaves. - correct answer ✔✔True
True or False: The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women. -
correct answer ✔✔False
In the five years following the end of the Civil War, former slaves were guaranteed the following in three
amendments to the United States Constitution: - correct answer ✔✔freedom from slavery; recognition
as citizens; the vote for adult black men
The Reconstruction Act of March 1867: - correct answer ✔✔divided the South into five military districts
and called for creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.
Which of the following was not a central thrust of the Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution? -
correct answer ✔✔redistribution of the former slaveowners' land among the freed slaves
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: - correct answer ✔✔prohibited federal and
state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race
True or False: The period of Radical Reconstruction began in March 1867 with Congress's adoption of the
Reconstruction Act over the president's veto and ended in 1877. - correct answer ✔✔True
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