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Name: Class: Date: TB6 6. Reconstructing Women’s Lives North and South, 1865-1900 Copyright MacmillanLearning. Poweredby Cognero.Page 1 1.With slavery no longer an issue after the Civil War, what was the most overt challenge to national unity?

• Struggles between Radical Republicans and those opposing woman suffrage
• Tensions between owners and workers
• Opposing views on the acquisition of territories overseas
• Conflicts over immigration quotas

ANSWER: b

2.Which trend in the late nineteenth century produced great tension in American society?

• The increasing gap between rich and poor
• The granting of the right to vote to women
• African Americans’ rapid economic success after Reconstruction
• The division of former plantations in the South

ANSWER: a

3.How did the woman suffrage movement respond to the congressional debates over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments?

• Women split over whether to endorse the Fifteenth Amendment, which omitted the word “gender.”
• Women gained the Supreme Court’s support for the argument that women could not be denied the vote on the

basis of gender.

• The suffrage movement collapsed after rejection of its goals by Congress and disappeared for the next fifty

years.

• Frustrated by failure to win the vote, the movement shifted to focus on getting women admitted to colleges in

greater numbers.

ANSWER: a

4.The National Women Suffrage Society was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in response to

• the need to get more women enrolled in college after the Civil War.
• demands by African American women in the South to win the right to vote.
• Congress not including the word “gender” in the Fifteenth Amendment.
• lack of interest in woman suffrage after the Civil War.

ANSWER: c

5.What was the argument about woman suffrage advanced by the New Departure theory of the suffrage movement?

• The right to privacy undergirded women’s right to vote, but a constitutional amendment would be

advantageous.

• Women were persons under the Fourteenth Amendment and thus, as citizens, had the right to vote.
• Women over the age of twenty-one were adults, and all American adults had a fundamental right to vote.
• The best way for women to win the right to vote was by petitioning Congress for an equal rights amendment.

ANSWER: b

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• petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the Fourteenth Amendment unconstitutional.
• declared that women had the right to petition Congress for an equal rights amendment.
• enrolled in classes at Harvard University and earned her doctoral degree.
• convinced election officials in Rochester, New York, to allow her vote because she was a citizen.

ANSWER: d

• In 1871, how did Victoria Claflin Woodhull present the case for the New Departure?
• She convinced polling officials in New York City to allow her to vote.
• She published her views in a series of articles in NWSA’s journal Revolution.
• She testified before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• She took a lawsuit on woman suffrage to the Supreme Court.

ANSWER: c

• By the late nineteenth century, what gains in women’s rights had been realized?
• The New York legislature had given women the right to vote.
• Women had the right to vote in territorial and local elections in Wyoming and Utah.
• The Supreme Court had ruled that women had the right to vote in all elections.
• African American women had the right to vote.

ANSWER: b

• How did the Supreme Court’s decision in Minor v. Happersett affect the women’s rights movement?
• It dealt a serious blow to the movement, causing it to collapse and disappear for the next fifty years.
• It led the NWSA to fight for a separate constitutional amendment to grant woman suffrage.
• It led to the creation of the New Departure theory by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
• It gave strength to the argument that women had the right to vote through the Fourteenth Amendment.

ANSWER: b

• The Supreme Court’s decision in Minor v. Happersett
• threw the question of woman suffrage back to the states.
• established that voting was a privilege, not a right of citizenship.
• held that women should not have voting rights because most were not educated.
• ruled that the Fifteenth Amendment gave all citizens the right to vote.

ANSWER: b

• Many freedwomen responded to the defeat of the Confederacy by
• leading armed rebellions against their former owners.
• traveling in large numbers to the North to work in textile factories.
• taking to the road or advertising to find lost spouses and family members.
• demanding to be paid for past labor in hopes of educating their children.

ANSWER: c

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• What was an important impact of the Freedmen’s Bureau on the family life of southern Blacks?
• It ensured that freedpeople had rights over their own children.
• It required newly freed men to honor the claim of their first wife.
• It required that Black parents send their children to public schools.
• It prosecuted white landowners who refused to provide reparations to freedpeople.

ANSWER: a

• Why did most Black families choose sharecropping over other forms of agricultural labor during

Reconstruction?

• White landowners refused to hire freedmen as day laborers or use them in gang labor.
• Sharecropping allowed Black farmers to make significant profits.
• Sharecropping allowed Black families to work independently without direct white oversight.
• Black workers preferred to work the land under white supervision than toil in factories.

ANSWER: c

• Black Codes were laws passed by
• the Freedmen’s Bureau to protect newly freed people.
• Congress that legalized sharecropping.
• southern states to limit the freedom of freedpeople.
• southern states to outlaw child labor in the South.

ANSWER: c

• What was the relationship of Black women to the new all-Black universities established after the Civil War?
• They were barred from attending because their labor was needed at home.
• They were welcomed in white women’s colleges, so few wanted to attend Black schools.
• They had to attend remedial classes to be able to take classes at these colleges.
• They were granted access to these all-Black institutions.

ANSWER: d

• Why did many poor white women who worked in southern textile mills in the 1880s consider this work a

form of racial privilege?

• The pay in southern factories was better than salaries paid in the North.
• Factories hired only white women.
• It was the first opportunity that southern women had to work outside the home.
• They preferred factory work to working as domestics.

ANSWER: b

• How were elite white southern women affected by Reconstruction?
• To counteract the freedmen’s vote, southern legislators gave elite white women the right to vote.
• For the first time, elite white southern women had to cook and launder for their own households.
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• Elite white southern women worked to end sharecropping to be able to hire Black women as servants.

ANSWER: b

• Why did white southern groups such as the Ku Klux Klan charge that Black men were sexual predators who

sought access to white women?

• To assert control over Black men in the aftermath of slavery
• To win sympathy for the plight of southern women in northern newspapers
• To protest the growing rate of interracial marriage that cost them potential marriage partners
• To hide their shame over their inability to attract suitable marriage partners

ANSWER: a

• What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?
• Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional.
• Segregation was legal and compatible with the Fourteenth Amendment.
• Black men could be denied the right to vote.
• Public transportation could not be segregated.

ANSWER: b

• What was the danger that African American men faced in the reconstructed South for the slightest suspicion

of disrespect to a white woman?

• Arrest and a lengthy trial
• Heavy fines
• Lynching by a mob
• Deportation to the North

ANSWER: c

• Ida B. Wells was significant because she
• criticized Radical Reconstruction in the South.
• wrote articles exposing the exploitation of sharecropping.
• organized unions for Black women workers.
• campaigned to stop lynching.

ANSWER: d

• Which of the following describes the progress of Reconstruction in the South between 1865 and 1900?
• After southern white resistance was broken down by military occupation, African Americans gradually won the

right to vote in local elections.

• White-dominated legislatures reestablished white supremacy and instituted segregation.
• The reign of the Ku Klux Klan was only temporary because its excesses were condemned by southern

legislatures, most of which had accepted African American suffrage by 1900.

• After the defeat of the Democratic Party by mixed-race coalitions in the 1870s and 1880s, the Republican

Party emerged as the dominant southern party by 1900.

ANSWER: b

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