Matching Chapter 15 Self-Quiz

The __________ provided 160 acres of free land in the West to anyone who made improvements on it for five years.

Strikes and organizations by sugar workers over the conditions and terms of their employment set the stage for broader organizing by the __________.

Blacks saw __________ as a means to gain a better job and be able to read the Bible.

Though it granted blacks and naturalized citizenship, the __________ did not enumerate specific rights.

The __________ included bans on interracial marriage and blacks' access to the judicial system.

The __________ extended the Emancipation Proclamation and made it a part of the Constitution.

Women's suffrage advocates were outraged because the __________ did not grant the vote to women.

In 1865, the unfolding drama of the __________ led white Southerners to worry that a similar uprising might occur in the United States if they did not gain more control over the freed people.

Courts in Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee ruled that sharecroppers' crops belonged to the land owner, taking away the farmers' __________.

During the 1870s, the __________ attacked and intimidated blacks across the South in a successful effort to reduce their political power.

Johnson vetoed a bill to extend the __________ for a year, but Congress overrode his veto.

In some cases, more cooperation between husbands and wives replaced __________ after the Civil War.