Chapter 15 Reading Quiz

How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

• Men often remained at home, while women went out and labored.

• Black women adopted the domestic roles that white women had long had, but retained their duties in the fields.

• Initially, the black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners.

• Emancipation did not lead to any changes in the black family's structure.

Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and emancipation?

• Most blacks wished to move to Africa.

• Most blacks stayed with their old masters.

• Blacks focused on family and looked for family members who had been separated from them.

• Desiring better wages, most blacks moved to northern cities to find factory work.

After the Civil War, what happened in regards to religion?

• African Americans denounced Christianity.

• African Americans started their own churches.

• African American churches only held religious services, but no other activities.

• Most African Americans became Muslim.

In regards to public education in the South during Reconstruction,

• blacks were not allowed to attend school.

• blacks did not set up any schools.

• only whites had a desire to read.

• blacks had a desire to learn.

For most former slaves, freedom meant

• jobs.

• land ownership.

• voting.

• jury duty.

How did the Civil War affect planter families?

• For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor.

• They lost their slaves, but were otherwise unaffected.

• Very few lost loved ones because they were able to avoid military service.

• They endured immediate problems, but their economic recovery was quick.

The northern vision of the Reconstruction-era Southern economy included all of the following EXCEPT

• northern capital and migrants would energize the southern economy.

• the Freedmen's Bureau would establish a workable labor system.

• the labor system would be as close to slavery as possible.

• the South would eventually resemble the North.

During Reconstruction, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

• endorsed the 15th Amendment.

• opposed the Fifteenth Amendment.

• were divided over whether or not to support the 15th Amendment.

• strongly supported the 15th Amendment.

Howard University is well known as

• the first medical school to admit women.

• the first black university in Mississippi.

• the oldest university in New England.

• a black university in Washington, D.C.

Andrew Johnson

• simply continued Lincoln's Reconstruction policies.

• agreed with Lincoln that some African Americans should be allowed voting rights.

• lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion.

• displayed a great ability to compromise, very much like Lincoln.