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22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865 - 1877

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1Slaves responded to emancipation during he war years in all of the following ways EXCEPT that they:
1. Atried to join the Union army
2. BVandalized their masters' homes and farms
3. Cchanged their names
4. Dremained loyal to their masters
5. Emarried former mistresses
2Who were the Exodusters?
1. AFormer slaves who, after emancipation, vowed never to pick cotton again
2. BA mass migration of blacks from various southern states into Kansas in the late 1870s
3. CFormer slaves who spent their post-slavery days searching for children or spouses who had been sold away
4. DNewly freed slaves who founded black churches across the South
5. EFree blacks who shed their old clothes for fine silks
3The Freedmen's Bureau?
1. Asold land in the West to newly emancipated slaves
2. Bnegotiated fair labor contracts between newly freed slaves and their former masters
3. Cwas established by Congress to provide food, education, and other social services to freedmen
4. Dwas administered in local communities throughout the South by transplanted agents from Washington, D.C.
5. Elasted just two years before Southerners and President Johnson put an end to it
4Before becoming president, Andrew Johnson had been a
1. Ablacksmith
2. Bstudent at a prestigious southern college
3. Ccongressman and governor of South Carolina
4. Dchampion of poor farmers
5. Elifelong Republicans
5Which of the following was NOT a feature of presidential Reconstruction of the Union?
1. AThe notion that the South had never actually left the Union
2. BThe disenfranchisement of leading Confederates
3. CThe establishment of state conventions that agreed to certain key principles
4. DThe 50 Percent Reconstruction Plan
5. EThe reorganization of Southern state governments and swift readmission of those states to the union.
6The Black Codes were:
1. ARestrictive Southern statutes passed to regulate newly freed slaves
2. Bharshest in Georgia
3. Claws requiring former slave owners to rehire their slaves as sharecropping farmers
4. Dlaws that safeguarded the new freedoms of emancipated slaves, such as the right to marry and to serve on juries
5. Estate-run efforts to guarantee blacks the right to vote
7What single outcome of the war had Northern Congressmen wondering who really won?
1. AThe expectation by Southern representatives that they could simply reclaim their seats in Congress
2. BThe election of Jefferson Davis and Andrew Stephens to Southern Senate seats
3. CThe end of the Three-Fifths Compromise
4. DThe imposition of the sharecropping system
5. EThe effort by Southern forces to eliminate the Freedmen's Bureau
8To secure the gains of the 1866 Civil Rights Bill, Congress sought to pass the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution with all of the following terms EXCEPT:
1. Acitizenship and civil rights for blacks
2. Bthe right to vote
3. Clinking the calculation of a state's representation in Congress to whether it offered blacks the ballot
4. Ddisqualification of certain former Confederates from federal and state office
5. Ethe repudiation of Confederate debts
9What was the central difference between radical and moderate Republican notions of Reconstruction?
1. ARadicals wanted rapid restoration of the Southern states
2. BModerates wanted to reinvent the Southern economic system before readmitting Southern states
3. CModerates wanted to limit federal intervention in the South
4. DRadicals wanted less federal involvement in the South
5. ERadicals stood alone in their goal of black enfranchisement
10All of the following were tenets of Reconstruction as adopted by Congress EXCEPT:
1. Aratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
2. Btemporary reorganization of the South into military districts
3. Cstate laws enfranchising former male slaves
4. Destablishment of new state constitutions and reorganized state governments
5. Estate sponsored education and land grants to former slaves

11The problem with the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution was that it:
1. Agranted only property holding blacks the right to vote
2. Binserted the word male into the constitutional definition of citizenship for the first time
3. Callowed ex-Confederate leaders to vote
4. Ddid not enfranchise women
5. Erequired that only the South allow blacks to vote
12Who were the so-called scalawags and carpet-baggers?
1. AScalawags were former slaves elected to office in the Reconstructed South; carpet-baggers were Yankee agents of the Freedmen's Bureau
2. BScalawags were pro-Union Southerners who participated in radical Reconstruction; carpet-baggers were Northerners who moved South seeking profit and power
3. CScalawags were Southerners who sold land to former slaves; carpet-baggers were Northern government officials who were sent South to ensure that elections were fair and open to everyone
4. DScalawags were Southerners who supported black enfranchisement; carpet-baggers were Northerners who sought to exploit the South's postwar economic crisis for personal gain
5. EScalawags were those who supported Yankee reforms; carpet-baggers were Northern labor activists
13White Southerners resisted the increased empowerment of blacks in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
1. Athe enactment of the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871
2. Bthe creation of Ku Klux Klan
3. Cthe establishment of literacy tests as a qualification for voting
4. Dintimidation and fraud
5. Eenactment of Black Codes and segregation practices
14What was the justification for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson?
1. AHe kept a harem of women
2. BHe was often drunk
3. CHe allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act
4. DHe purchased Alaska without the required consent of Congress
5. EHe had obstructed Reconstruction
15After emancipation, many blacks traveled in order to?
1. Areturn to Africa or the West Indies
2. Bseek a better life in Northern cities
3. Cfind lost family members or seek new economic opportunities
4. Dtrack down and punish cruel overseers
16The Freedmen's Bureau was originally established to provide:
1. Aland and supplies for black farmers
2. Blabor registration
3. Cfood, clothes, and education for emancipated slaves
4. Dpolitical training in citizenship for black voters
17Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction in 1863 was that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when:
1. Ait repealed its original secession act and took its soldiers out of the Confederate Army
2. B10 percent of its voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union and pledged to abide by emancipation
3. Cit formally adopted a plan guaranteeing black political and economic rights
4. Dit ratified that Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
18The Black Codes passed by many of the Southern state governments in 1865 aimed to:
1. Aprovide economic assistance to get former slaves started as sharecroppers
2. Bensure a stable and subservient labor force under white control
3. Cpermit blacks to vote if they met certain educational or economic standards
4. Dgradually force blacks to leave the South
19The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in:
1. Aa victory for Johnson and his pro-Southern Reconstruction plan
2. Ba further political stalemate between the Republicans in Congress and Johnson
3. Ca decisive defeat for Johnson and a veto-proof Republican Congress
4. Da gain for Northern Democrats and their moderate compromise plan for Reconstruction
20In contrast to radical Republicans, moderate Republicans generally:
1. Afavored states' rights and opposed direct federal involvement in individuals' lives
2. Bfavored the use of federal power to alter the Southern economic system
3. Cfavored emancipation but opposed the Fourteenth Amendment
4. Dfavored returning the Southern states to the Union without significant Reconstruction
21Besides putting the South under the rule of federal soldiers, the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 required that:
1. ASouthern states give blacks the vote as a condition of re-admittance to the Union
2. Bblacks and carpetbaggers be given control of Southern legislatures
3. Cformer slaves be given land and education at federal expense
4. Dformer Confederate officials and military officers be tried for treason
22The Fourteenth Amendment provided for:
1. Aan end to slavery
2. Bpermanent disenfranchisement of all Confederate officials
3. Cfull citizenship and civil rights for former slaves
4. Dvoting rights for women
23The Fifteenth Amendment provided for:
1. Areadmitting Southern states to the Union
2. Bfull citizenship and civil rights for former slaves
3. Cvoting rights for former slaves
4. Dvoting rights for women
24Women's rights leaders were opposed to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because:
1. Athey objected to racial integration in the women's movement
2. Bthe amendments granted citizenship and voting rights to black and white men but not to women
3. Cthey favored passage of the Equal Rights Amendment first
4. Dmost of them were Democrats who would be hurt by the amendments
25The right to vote encouraged southern black men to:
1. Aform a third political party as an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans
2. Bseek an apology and reparations for slavery
3. Corganize the Union League as a vehicle for political empowerment and self defense
4. Dorganize large-scale migrations out of the South to the West
26The "radical" Reconstruction regimes in the Southern states
1. Atook away white Southerners' civil rights and voting rights
2. Bconsisted almost entirely of blacks
3. Cwere made up of white Northerners, white Southerners, and blacks
4. Deliminated the public education systems in most Southern states
27Most of the Northern "carpetbaggers" were actually:
1. Aformer Union soldiers, businessmen, or professionals
2. Bundercover agents of the federal government
3. Cformer Southern Whigs and Unionists who had opposed the Confederacy
4. DNorthern teachers and missionaries who wanted to aid the freedman
28The radical Republicans' impeachment of President Andrew Johnson resulted in:
1. AJohnson's acceptance of the radicals' Reconstruction plan
2. Ba failure to convict and remove Johnson by a margin of only one vote
3. CJohnson's conviction on a charge of violating the Tenure of Office Act
4. DJohnson's resignation and appointment of Ulysses S. Grant as his successor
29The skeptical public finally accepted Seward's purchase of Alaska because:
1. Athere were rumors of extensive oil deposits in the territory
2. Bit was considered strategically vital to American defense
3. Cit would provide a new frontier safety valve after the settling of the West
4. DRussia had been the only great power friendly to the Union during the Civil War

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