Question 1

How did freed slaves respond to Reconstruction? How did freedom affect the economic,social,and political life of former slaves? In what ways was their freedom still incomplete?

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Question 2

Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges because

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A)   Secretary of War Edwin Stanton aided Johnson's defense by spying on congressional prosecutors.
B)   radical Republicans recognized that Johnson's successor would be worse.
C)   many people favored destabilizing the federal government.
D)   it was finally recognized that the charges were dubious and political.
E)   Johnson promised to stop obstructing Republican policies.

Question 3

Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to

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A)   help them escape to the North during the Civil War.
B)   provide them with relief payments until the Freedmen's Bureau was established.
C)   educate them on their civic duties.
D)   gain admittance to the Union Army.
E)   protect them from the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 4

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do all of the following except

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A)   act as a kind of welfare agency.
B)   provide food, clothing, and medical care to slave refugees.
C)   settle former slaves with forty-acre tracts confiscated from Confederates.
D)   relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters.
E)   provide education that would help close the gap between blacks and whites.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-carpetbaggers

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Question 6

Which one of the following is least related to the other four?

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A)   Scalawags
B)   Ku Klux Klan
C)   Carpetbaggers
D)   Freedmen
E)   Union League

Question 7

In the 1866 congressional elections

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A)   President Johnson conducted a highly successful "swing around the circle" campaign tour promoting his policies.
B)   radicals replaced moderates as the dominant Republican faction in Congress.
C)   voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction.
D)   Republicans lost their majority control of Congress.
E)   a substantial number of white southern Republicans were elected to Congress.

Question 8

It has been wryly observed that "the North won the Civil War,but the South won Reconstruction." Interpret this statement and assess its truth.

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Question 9

The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

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A)   a ban on jury service by blacks.
B)   a restriction against black migration from the South.
C)   a bar on blacks from renting land.
D)   punishment of blacks for idleness.
E)   fines for blacks who jumped labor contracts.

Question 10

Which of the following was not among the functions provided by the black Union League?

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A)   Educating blacks in their civic duties
B)   Campaigning for Republican candidates
C)   Helping blacks migrate from the South to the North
D)   Building black churches and schools
E)   Recruiting militants to protect black communities

Question 11

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

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A)   citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.
B)   land for former slaves.
C)   voting rights for former Confederates who had previously served in the U.S. Army.
D)   freed slaves the right to vote.
E)   education to former slaves.

Question 12

The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as

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A)   a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.
B)   an agency acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
C)   a valued partner in rebuilding the South.
D)   more helpful in the North than the South.
E)   a threat to state social service agencies.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Thaddeus Stevens

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Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a promi...

Question 14

Assess the achievements and shortcomings of "radical" regimes in the South.What did they do that is worth admiring and worth condemning? What else might they have done to better achieve their goals?

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Question 15

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was

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A)   passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
B)   the creation of the sharecropping system.
C)   the attempt to pass the Fourteenth Amendment.
D)   the South's regaining control of the Senate.
E)   Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.

Question 16

Reconstruction might have been more successful if

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A)   Andrew Johnson had won reelection in 1868.
B)   the U.S. army had more quickly suppressed the Ku Klux Klan.
C)   control of the South had been returned to Southerners much sooner.
D)   the federal government had not tampered with property rights.
E)   Thaddeus Stevens's radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted.

Question 17

Under congressional Reconstruction,Southern states were required to

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A)   organize and support the Republican party.
B)   ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
C)   give freed slaves the right to vote.
D)   provide land and education for former slaves.
E)   protect black religious freedom.

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"radical" regimes

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"Radical" regimes refer to governments o...

Question 19

During Reconstruction,African American women assumed new political roles,which included all of the following except

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A)   participating in black church life.
B)   monitoring state constitutional conventions.
C)   participating in political rallies.
D)   organizing mass meetings.
E)   voting.

Question 20

Among the legacies of the Reconstruction effort were

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A)   a national commitment to civil rights for all races in America.
B)   establishment of economic and political guarantees for southern blacks.
C)   a long-term eclipse of Republican party strength in southern states.
D)   perpetuation of the ideas of states' rights and local self-government under the Constitution.
E)   a sense of resentment and grievance among white southerners.

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The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

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Which of the following was not among the functions provided by the black Union League?

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How did freed slaves respond to Reconstruction? How did freedom affect the economic,social,and political life of former slaves? In what ways was their freedom still incomplete?

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Thaddeus Stevens

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It has been wryly observed that "the North won the Civil War,but the South won Reconstruction." Interpret this statement and assess its truth.

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -carpetbaggers

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"radical" regimes

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