Question 1

To challenge Grant's reelection campaign in 1872, both the Liberty party and the Democratic party endorsed

Accepted Answer

A)  Horatio Seymour. 
B)  Schuyler Colfax. 
C)  James A. Garfield. 
D)  Horace Greeley. 
A)  Horatio Seymour. 
B)  Schuyler Colfax. 
C)  James A. Garfield. 
D)  Horace Greeley.

Question 2

How did passage of the Fifteenth Amendment shape future Republican policy?

Accepted Answer

A)  It allowed Republicans to ignore black rights in the future. 
B)  It encouraged Republicans to take on southern labor policies. 
C)  The Republican party turned to land redistribution as its new central issue. 
D)  It ensured that the Republicans would become a primarily southern political party. 
A)  It allowed Republicans to ignore black rights in the future. 
B)  It encouraged Republicans to take on southern labor policies. 
C)  The Republican party turned to land redistribution as its new central issue. 
D)  It ensured that the Republicans would become a primarily southern political party.

Question 3

Match the term with the definition.
-Constitutional amendment passed in 1866 that made all native-born or naturalized persons U.S. citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens. The amendment hoped to provide guarantee of equality before the law for black citizens.

Accepted Answer

A) black codes 
B) carpetbagger 
C) Civil Rights Act of 1866 
D) Compromise of 1877 
E) Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping 
A) black codes 
B) carpetbagger 
C) Civil Rights Act of 1866 
D) Compromise of 1877 
E) Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping

Question 4

Identify three important provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Fourteenth

Question 5

Explain the reason for the appointment of a special presidential electoral commission in 1877 and state the outcome of its vote. Identify the effect of the informal understanding known as the Compromise of 1877 on Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Cause of t

Question 6

What happened to most sharecroppers once they borrowed goods on a crop lien?

Accepted Answer

A)  They made enough money to buy their own land. 
B)  They paid back their debt within a year. 
C)  They ended up in a cycle of debt. 
D)  They began growing food rather than cotton. 
A)  They made enough money to buy their own land. 
B)  They paid back their debt within a year. 
C)  They ended up in a cycle of debt. 
D)  They began growing food rather than cotton.

Question 7

How influential were African American politicians during the period southern whites derisively called "Negro domination"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Only six percent of southerners in Congress during Reconstruction were black. 
B)  Blacks held a majority in over half the state legislatures for a short time. 
C)  African Americans held no elected office during Reconstruction. 
D)  Only states with black majorities elected blacks to office. 
A)  Only six percent of southerners in Congress during Reconstruction were black. 
B)  Blacks held a majority in over half the state legislatures for a short time. 
C)  African Americans held no elected office during Reconstruction. 
D)  Only states with black majorities elected blacks to office.

Question 8

Match the term with the definition.
-Congressional act of March 1867 that initiated military rule of the South. Congressional reconstruction divided the ten unreconstructed Confederate states into five military districts, each under the direction of a Union general. It also established the procedure by which unreconstructed states could reenter the Union.

Accepted Answer

A) black codes 
B) carpetbagger 
C) Civil Rights Act of 1866 
D) Compromise of 1877 
E) Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping 
A) black codes 
B) carpetbagger 
C) Civil Rights Act of 1866 
D) Compromise of 1877 
E) Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping

Question 9

Why did President Johnson's quick reconstruction of ex-Confederate states shock reformers?

Accepted Answer

A)  His lenient terms for reconstruction belied his earlier states' rights stance. 
B)  He had long expressed a desire to destroy the southern planter aristocracy. 
C)  His harsh terms for reconstruction belied his earlier promises of leniency. 
D)  He failed to follow through on his promise to grant the freedmen voting rights. 
A)  His lenient terms for reconstruction belied his earlier states' rights stance. 
B)  He had long expressed a desire to destroy the southern planter aristocracy. 
C)  His harsh terms for reconstruction belied his earlier promises of leniency. 
D)  He failed to follow through on his promise to grant the freedmen voting rights.

Question 10

Union general Carl Schurz believed that to protect themselves from white oppression, newly freed blacks would need

Accepted Answer

A)  voting rights. 
B)  access to an unbiased judicial system. 
C)  employment contracts. 
D)  social equality. 
A)  voting rights. 
B)  access to an unbiased judicial system. 
C)  employment contracts. 
D)  social equality.

Question 11

Although Johnson had left the Democratic party before becoming president, he seemed more a Democrat than a Republican as president because he

Accepted Answer

A)  advocated limitations on federal power. 
B)  vetoed the Wade-Davis bill and supported federal subsidies. 
C)  refused to support any aspect of Lincoln's reconstruction plan. 
D)  attempted to empower the Freedmen's Bureau. 
A)  advocated limitations on federal power. 
B)  vetoed the Wade-Davis bill and supported federal subsidies. 
C)  refused to support any aspect of Lincoln's reconstruction plan. 
D)  attempted to empower the Freedmen's Bureau.

Question 12

What was the result of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Slaughterhouse cases (1873)?

Accepted Answer

A)  It limited the authority of federal courts in cases involving the civil rights of state citizens. 
B)  It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections to make state governments compliant. 
C)  It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause to education. 
D)  It reinforced that the rights of national citizenship took precedence over the rights of state citizenship. 
A)  It limited the authority of federal courts in cases involving the civil rights of state citizens. 
B)  It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections to make state governments compliant. 
C)  It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause to education. 
D)  It reinforced that the rights of national citizenship took precedence over the rights of state citizenship.

Question 13

The Ku Klux Klan developed into a paramilitary organization, but it began as

Accepted Answer

A)  a group of yeoman farmers who were angry about Radical Reconstruction. 
B)  a fraternity in Tennessee that wanted to intimidate blacks. 
C)  an elitist order that wanted to destroy the Republican party by lynching blacks. 
D)  a social club for Confederate veterans who wanted to restore white supremacy. 
A)  a group of yeoman farmers who were angry about Radical Reconstruction. 
B)  a fraternity in Tennessee that wanted to intimidate blacks. 
C)  an elitist order that wanted to destroy the Republican party by lynching blacks. 
D)  a social club for Confederate veterans who wanted to restore white supremacy.

Question 14

What happened to the whites who killed eighty-one blacks during the Colfax massacre?

Accepted Answer

A)  African Americans broke them out of jail and killed them. 
B)  They received lifetime prison sentences. 
C)  They went free because nobody would prosecute them. 
D)  The Supreme Court found them guilty on all charges. 
A)  African Americans broke them out of jail and killed them. 
B)  They received lifetime prison sentences. 
C)  They went free because nobody would prosecute them. 
D)  The Supreme Court found them guilty on all charges.

Question 15

Who made up the majority of the Republican party in the South in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Scalawags 
B)  Owners of small businesses 
C)  Carpetbaggers 
D)  African Americans 
A)  Scalawags 
B)  Owners of small businesses 
C)  Carpetbaggers 
D)  African Americans

Question 16

When the South returned to the Union, it did so as a junior partner; however, southerners did have a distinct impact on the various Reconstruction plans implemented after the war. Identify the viewpoints of white southerners during this time period and explain how and why they were able to influence the transition in the South from slavery to freedom. Include their opinions about the behavior of ex-slaves and the impact of Reconstruction on their way of life.

Accepted Answer

Some southern whites joined the Republic

Question 17

The Fifteenth Amendment

Accepted Answer

A)  prohibited the states from infringing on the rights of citizens. 
B)  defined U.S. citizenship. 
C)  extended black male suffrage to the entire nation. 
D)  outlawed slavery. 
A)  prohibited the states from infringing on the rights of citizens. 
B)  defined U.S. citizenship. 
C)  extended black male suffrage to the entire nation. 
D)  outlawed slavery.

Exam 16: Reconstruction

To challenge Grant's reelection campaign in 1872, both the Liberty party and the Democratic party endorsed

How did passage of the Fifteenth Amendment shape future Republican policy?

Match the term with the definition. -Constitutional amendment passed in 1866 that made all native-born or naturalized persons U.S. citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens. The amendment hoped to provide guarantee of equality before the law for black citizens.

Identify three important provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Explain the reason for the appointment of a special presidential electoral commission in 1877 and state the outcome of its vote. Identify the effect of the informal understanding known as the Compromise of 1877 on Reconstruction.

What happened to most sharecroppers once they borrowed goods on a crop lien?

How influential were African American politicians during the period southern whites derisively called "Negro domination"?

Why did President Johnson's quick reconstruction of ex-Confederate states shock reformers?

Union general Carl Schurz believed that to protect themselves from white oppression, newly freed blacks would need

Although Johnson had left the Democratic party before becoming president, he seemed more a Democrat than a Republican as president because he

What was the result of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Slaughterhouse cases (1873)?

The Ku Klux Klan developed into a paramilitary organization, but it began as

What happened to the whites who killed eighty-one blacks during the Colfax massacre?

Who made up the majority of the Republican party in the South in the late 1800s?

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