Question 1

The only state to have an African American judge on the state supreme court during the Reconstruction era was

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A)   Virginia.
B)   Georgia.
C)   North Carolina.
D)   South Carolina.
E)   Tennessee.

Question 2

A southern white Republican was called a

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A)   carpetbagger.
B)   scalawag.
C)   turncoat.
D)   traitor.
E)   deviant.

Question 3

Immediately after the Civil War,many white landowners

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A)   began advertising in the North and in Europe for farm workers, determined not to use black labor and pay for it.
B)   tried without success to force blacks who had once been their slaves to work under very similar conditions, even to the point of using the whip.
C)   could not understand how they were to treat the former slaves, since they had never been in that situation before.
D)   decided to make the first overtures and directly offered shorter hours and no gang work.
E)   sold their plantations rather than have to hire and pay free blacks.

Question 4

What were some of the major scandals of the Grant years? How responsible does Grant appear to have been for these things?

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Question 5

The only southern state to avoid the imposition of military rule was

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A)   Georgia.
B)   Texas.
C)   Florida.
D)   Tennessee.
E)   Louisiana.

Question 6

African Americans in the South demonstrated their newly achieved freedom by

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A)   purchasing firearms.
B)   seeking out long-lost family members, sold away from them during slavery.
C)   moving to the North in large numbers.
D)   holding large gatherings and meetings that they were prohibited from doing as slaves.
E)   All of these choices.

Question 7

During Reconstruction,freed slaves ensured that Republicans dominated all of the new state governments in the South,at least until after the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Passed by most of the new southern state governments during Reconstruction,the Black Codes did all of the following except

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A)   allow African Americans to buy and sell land.
B)   legalize black marriages while banning interracial marriage.
C)   permit African Americans to sit on juries.
D)   make it legal for police to round up black vagrants and hire them out to white landowners.
E)   increase the physical separation of black and white Americans.

Question 9

How did President Grant's administration respond to increased southern violence against free men and women?

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A)   The president sent troops to retain order in the South and arrest perpetrators.
B)   They did nothing; the administration was busy grappling with the problems of the Whiskey Ring.
C)   Grant sent a stern warning including threats of censuring southern Congressmen until the violence ceased.
D)   The administration passed two laws making it a felony to interfere with the right to vote and allowing the government to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to end Klan violence.
E)   Grant pushed for a measure to make the Ku Klux Klan illegal in the South.

Question 10

In an effort to gain the right to vote,African Americans did all of the following during the Reconstruction era except

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A)   They marched for it.
B)   They paraded to advocate for bills endorsing it.
C)   They lionized black Revolutionary heroes to establish their credentials as vote-casting Americans.
D)   They attempted to unite with the women's suffrage movement.
E)   They held mock elections to show their capacity and desire to participate in the American political process.

Question 11

How did southern Democratic elites react to the actions of the Reconstruction Congress? What measures did they take to ensure that their way of life returned to "normal"?

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Question 12

As an indication of the strength of the Ku Klux Klan,we can look to the fact that the organization killed or injured 2,000 people in Louisiana alone before the election of 1868.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What effect did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have on the women's suffrage movement?

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A)   The amendments' exclusive focus on rights for black men angered many suffragists.
B)   The movement divided over whether to support African Americans first and women second.
C)   Women, who had long advocated for the rights of minorities, felt betrayed.
D)   Suffragists were incensed that the word "male" would be linked to voting rights in the Constitution.
E)   All of these choices.

Question 14

The absence of Southerners in Congress after the Civil War enabled northern politicians to pass legislation southerners had long resisted in all of the following areas except

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A)   internal improvements.
B)   outlawing of slavery.
C)   expanding the development of the Market Revolution.
D)   laying the groundwork for the nation's industrial revolution.
E)   passing sweeping statutory voting rights protections for African Americans across the United States, including the South.

Question 15

What event marked the failure and end of Reconstruction in the South?

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A)   Grant refused to intervene in the violence resulting from the Mississippi Plan, signaling a change in northern thinking.
B)   Southern Democrats regained control of Congress.
C)   The Compromise of 1877 brought moderate Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to the White House where he promptly withdrew federal troops from the South.
D)   The election of Democrat Samuel B. Tilden as president of the United States.
E)   Republicans in Congress proposed that attempts at Reconstruction be suspended for a time, all concurred, and it never started up again.

Question 16

The Freedmen's Bureau had its greatest success for freed slaves in the South in the area of new black

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A)   schools and medical facilities.
B)   land reform of Southern plantations that would permit former slaves to acquire adequate arable land from these plantations to cultivate agricultural crops.
C)   churches.
D)   housing.
E)   job training.

Question 17

Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were members of a group known as

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A)   Copperheads.
B)   Radical Republicans.
C)   Carpetbaggers.
D)   Redeemers.
E)   Scalawags.

Question 18

Lincoln's plan for bringing the southern states back into the Union was viewed by many Republican members of Congress as

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A)   unrealistic and naïve.
B)   unworkable due to its complexity.
C)   much too lenient.
D)   too harsh.
E)   uncharacteristically vindictive.

Question 19

Congress impeached Johnson because

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A)   the president had clearly committed high crimes and misdemeanors.
B)   Radical Republicans in the House charged the president with violating the Tenure of Office Act.
C)   the president had appointed a set of Southern stalwarts to the United States Supreme Court.
D)   his vetoes had made governing virtually impossible.
E)   Northern Democrats were eager for an early election that would give their candidate the upper hand.

Question 20

In the aftermath of the Civil War,women's rights activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Olympia Brown did all of the following,except

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A)   use new national journals like The Agitator to advertise their cause.
B)   push for the reform of marriage laws.
C)   campaign for changes in inheritance laws.
D)   wholeheartedly campaign on behalf of the political and economic rights of black men.
E)   push for a constitutional guarantee of women's suffrage.

Exam 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877

What were some of the major scandals of the Grant years? How responsible does Grant appear to have been for these things?

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As an indication of the strength of the Ku Klux Klan,we can look to the fact that the organization killed or injured 2,000 people in Louisiana alone before the election of 1868.

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What effect did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have on the women's suffrage movement?

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How did President Grant's administration respond to increased southern violence against free men and women?

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Passed by most of the new southern state governments during Reconstruction,the Black Codes did all of the following except

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What event marked the failure and end of Reconstruction in the South?

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