Question 1

The three southern states whose governments the Republican Party still controlled in 1876 included all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) Georgia. 
B) Florida. 
C) South Carolina. 
D) Louisiana. 
A) Georgia. 
B) Florida. 
C) South Carolina. 
D) Louisiana. A

Question 2

When he ascended to the presidency in 1865,Andrew Johnson

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A) extended pardons to thousands of Confederates. 
B) used his executive powers to punish the plantation elite whom he blamed for the Civil War. 
C) became a staunch champion of freedpeople's political and civil rights. 
D) signed into law the Wade-Davis Bill which Lincoln had earlier rejected. 
A) extended pardons to thousands of Confederates. 
B) used his executive powers to punish the plantation elite whom he blamed for the Civil War. 
C) became a staunch champion of freedpeople's political and civil rights. 
D) signed into law the Wade-Davis Bill which Lincoln had earlier rejected. A

Question 3

During Reconstruction,black churchgoers and ministers generally

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A) sought to maintain an iron separation between religion and political activities. 
B) fought to integrate churches and gain admittance to white-only congregations. 
C) took a leading role in funding schools and providing social services. 
D) abandoned evangelical denominations in large numbers. 
A) sought to maintain an iron separation between religion and political activities. 
B) fought to integrate churches and gain admittance to white-only congregations. 
C) took a leading role in funding schools and providing social services. 
D) abandoned evangelical denominations in large numbers. C

Question 4

Which of the following statements about South Carolina politician Robert Brown Elliott is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) For two years he served as speaker of the state's legislature. 
B) He was elected as the state's attorney general. 
C) He rose to prominence despite having been born a slave on a South Carolina plantation. 
D) He lost political power as Reconstruction came to an end and died in poverty. 
A) For two years he served as speaker of the state's legislature. 
B) He was elected as the state's attorney general. 
C) He rose to prominence despite having been born a slave on a South Carolina plantation. 
D) He lost political power as Reconstruction came to an end and died in poverty.

Question 5

Compared to the 2% of married white women who worked for wages,what percentage of married black women were employed outside the home in 1870?

Accepted Answer

A) 10% 
B) 40% 
C) 60% 
D) 80% 
A) 10% 
B) 40% 
C) 60% 
D) 80%

Question 6

Which of the following statements about southern blacks' political mobilization in 1865 and 1866 is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) Blacks held conventions throughout the South at which they demanded the right to vote. 
B) Black mobilization was especially strong in cities,where it built off the existing infrastructure of churches and fraternal societies. 
C) Black mobilization was strongest in those areas of the South where federal troops had the longest presence. 
D) The free black urban elite completely dominated black politics,preventing the voices of rural blacks from being heard. 
A) Blacks held conventions throughout the South at which they demanded the right to vote. 
B) Black mobilization was especially strong in cities,where it built off the existing infrastructure of churches and fraternal societies. 
C) Black mobilization was strongest in those areas of the South where federal troops had the longest presence. 
D) The free black urban elite completely dominated black politics,preventing the voices of rural blacks from being heard.

Question 7

The Fourteenth Amendment divided the members of the abolitionist movement primarily because it

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A) penalized states for abridging the voting rights of men but not those of women. 
B) included no enforcement measures,essentially making it a dead letter. 
C) failed to restore to African Americans the rights stripped from them by the Dred Scott case. 
D) guaranteed naturalized citizens the same rights as native-born citizens. 
A) penalized states for abridging the voting rights of men but not those of women. 
B) included no enforcement measures,essentially making it a dead letter. 
C) failed to restore to African Americans the rights stripped from them by the Dred Scott case. 
D) guaranteed naturalized citizens the same rights as native-born citizens.

Question 8

Which of the following statements BEST captures attitudes toward the education of freedpeople during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

A) Although the Freedmen's Bureau tried to interest freedpeople in education,most southern blacks were more concerned with earning a living than with schooling. 
B) The Freedmen's Bureau almost single-handedly established,funded,and supervised a school system for southern blacks. 
C) Although freedpeople eagerly sought education,the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau refused to support their goals,and required all former slaves-men,women,and children-to enter into labor contracts. 
D) Freedpeople often took the initiative of creating their own schools,but depended on financial assistance from the Freedmen's Bureau and northern churches. 
A) Although the Freedmen's Bureau tried to interest freedpeople in education,most southern blacks were more concerned with earning a living than with schooling. 
B) The Freedmen's Bureau almost single-handedly established,funded,and supervised a school system for southern blacks. 
C) Although freedpeople eagerly sought education,the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau refused to support their goals,and required all former slaves-men,women,and children-to enter into labor contracts. 
D) Freedpeople often took the initiative of creating their own schools,but depended on financial assistance from the Freedmen's Bureau and northern churches.

Question 9

Which of the following statements about conditions in the South in late 1865 and early 1866 is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) Terrorist bands of white southerners calling themselves Regulators and Jayhawkers attacked black people with impunity. 
B) The U.S.Congress affirmed the policies of Presidential Reconstruction,thus allowing the worst abuses against southern blacks to continue unchecked. 
C) Elections in the South in late 1865 sent dozens of leading Confederate figures to Congress,including the former vice president of the Confederacy. 
D) In early 1866 the U.S.Congress repudiated the federal elections held in the South in late 1865. 
A) Terrorist bands of white southerners calling themselves Regulators and Jayhawkers attacked black people with impunity. 
B) The U.S.Congress affirmed the policies of Presidential Reconstruction,thus allowing the worst abuses against southern blacks to continue unchecked. 
C) Elections in the South in late 1865 sent dozens of leading Confederate figures to Congress,including the former vice president of the Confederacy. 
D) In early 1866 the U.S.Congress repudiated the federal elections held in the South in late 1865.

Question 10

After gaining their freedom,black families preferred that female members

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A) work side by side with men in the fields. 
B) find work as domestics in white households. 
C) stay home and tend to their household. 
D) find jobs in the new factories being built by northern capitalists. 
A) work side by side with men in the fields. 
B) find work as domestics in white households. 
C) stay home and tend to their household. 
D) find jobs in the new factories being built by northern capitalists.

Question 11

A persistent rumor spread through the South in 1865 and 1866 that the federal government would provide freedpeople with

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A) ten dollars for every year they had been slaves. 
B) forty acres of land and a mule. 
C) free transportation to northern industrial centers. 
D) their own territory in the Southwest. 
A) ten dollars for every year they had been slaves. 
B) forty acres of land and a mule. 
C) free transportation to northern industrial centers. 
D) their own territory in the Southwest.

Question 12

All of the following factors contributed to the end of Reconstruction EXCEPT

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A) the Republican Party's new generation of political leadership proved even more radical than its predecessor,and sacrificed political support in favor of ideological purity. 
B) Democrats used revelations of political corruption in Republican-dominated governments on the state and national levels to discredit the Republican Party. 
C) the U.S.Supreme Court eviscerated many of the congressional protections established to protect blacks' rights,and strictly limited the application of the Reconstruction Amendments. 
D) white supremacists' use of terrorist tactics made political participation too dangerous for large numbers of black southerners. 
A) the Republican Party's new generation of political leadership proved even more radical than its predecessor,and sacrificed political support in favor of ideological purity. 
B) Democrats used revelations of political corruption in Republican-dominated governments on the state and national levels to discredit the Republican Party. 
C) the U.S.Supreme Court eviscerated many of the congressional protections established to protect blacks' rights,and strictly limited the application of the Reconstruction Amendments. 
D) white supremacists' use of terrorist tactics made political participation too dangerous for large numbers of black southerners.

Question 13

Which of the following statements about white supremacist organizations in the 1870s such as the Ku Klux Klan is MOST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) The organizations had to operate in secrecy because they had little support among the broader white community. 
B) Despite initial resistance to terrorist tactics from blacks,the organizations' terrorist methods proved increasingly effective at subverting black political participation. 
C) Frustrated with the slow pace of progress in the South and the costs of Reconstruction,the federal government took no action to thwart the rise of white supremacist groups. 
D) Local governments were fully capable of ending these organizations' activities,but none showed the desire to do so. 
A) The organizations had to operate in secrecy because they had little support among the broader white community. 
B) Despite initial resistance to terrorist tactics from blacks,the organizations' terrorist methods proved increasingly effective at subverting black political participation. 
C) Frustrated with the slow pace of progress in the South and the costs of Reconstruction,the federal government took no action to thwart the rise of white supremacist groups. 
D) Local governments were fully capable of ending these organizations' activities,but none showed the desire to do so.

Question 14

In the mid 1870s,a black militia maintained by Governor Adelbert Ames clashed frequently with paramilitary White Leagues in an intermittent civil war fought in which state?

Accepted Answer

A) South Carolina 
B) Louisiana 
C) Georgia 
D) Alabama 
A) South Carolina 
B) Louisiana 
C) Georgia 
D) Alabama

Question 15

What effect did the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment have on suffrage in the South?

Accepted Answer

A) It threatened to expand the influence of the southern states in the federal government by nullifying the Three-fifths Compromise. 
B) It explicitly granted voting rights to black men though continuing to deny suffrage to all women,white or black. 
C) It did not explicitly grant voting rights to black men,but did lessen the federal representation of states which denied the franchise to black men. 
D) It cemented the dominance of the northern states by barring ex-Confederates from voting in federal elections or holding federal office. 
A) It threatened to expand the influence of the southern states in the federal government by nullifying the Three-fifths Compromise. 
B) It explicitly granted voting rights to black men though continuing to deny suffrage to all women,white or black. 
C) It did not explicitly grant voting rights to black men,but did lessen the federal representation of states which denied the franchise to black men. 
D) It cemented the dominance of the northern states by barring ex-Confederates from voting in federal elections or holding federal office.

Question 16

Which of the following statements about the Freedmen's Bureau is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) It provided rations to freedpeople while ignoring the plight of white refugees. 
B) It oversaw dozens of hospitals and contributed millions of dollars to providing health care for former slaves. 
C) It was the first large-scale federal welfare program in the United States. 
D) It supervised labor relations between ex-slaves and their employers. 
A) It provided rations to freedpeople while ignoring the plight of white refugees. 
B) It oversaw dozens of hospitals and contributed millions of dollars to providing health care for former slaves. 
C) It was the first large-scale federal welfare program in the United States. 
D) It supervised labor relations between ex-slaves and their employers.

Question 17

Which of the following statements about the education of freedpeople in the Reconstruction era is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) The schools established to educate freedpeople sought to inculcate the values of the free labor system. 
B) Many white teachers focused as much on altering blacks' dialects and worship behaviors as on teaching them to read and write. 
C) Large numbers of northerners traveled south to educate freedpeople,and the majority of white teachers in black schools were from the North. 
D) The movement to educate freedpeople was crippled from the outset by the refusal of the federal government to provide money or other assistance to black schools. 
A) The schools established to educate freedpeople sought to inculcate the values of the free labor system. 
B) Many white teachers focused as much on altering blacks' dialects and worship behaviors as on teaching them to read and write. 
C) Large numbers of northerners traveled south to educate freedpeople,and the majority of white teachers in black schools were from the North. 
D) The movement to educate freedpeople was crippled from the outset by the refusal of the federal government to provide money or other assistance to black schools.

Question 18

Which of the following statements about Lincoln's Reconstruction policy is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) According to his policy,a state could return to the Union once one-tenth of its citizens who had been eligible to vote in 1860 swore an oath of loyalty to the United States. 
B) Lincoln's policy required southern states to accept the abolition of slavery as a condition of returning to the Union. 
C) Lincoln insisted that southern states grant voting rights to black Union veterans as a condition of returning to the Union. 
D) Lincoln granted amnesty to most former Confederates,but not to certain high-ranking government and military figures. 
A) According to his policy,a state could return to the Union once one-tenth of its citizens who had been eligible to vote in 1860 swore an oath of loyalty to the United States. 
B) Lincoln's policy required southern states to accept the abolition of slavery as a condition of returning to the Union. 
C) Lincoln insisted that southern states grant voting rights to black Union veterans as a condition of returning to the Union. 
D) Lincoln granted amnesty to most former Confederates,but not to certain high-ranking government and military figures.

Question 19

The Civil Rights Act,passed in 1875,stipulated that

Accepted Answer

A) African Americans could not be denied equal access to public houses and public transportation. 
B) businesses which employed more than two dozen workers could not discriminate against African Americans in their hiring practices. 
C) publicly funded schools must be equally open to both white and black students. 
D) homeowners and landlords could not refuse to sell or rent their property to black citizens. 
A) African Americans could not be denied equal access to public houses and public transportation. 
B) businesses which employed more than two dozen workers could not discriminate against African Americans in their hiring practices. 
C) publicly funded schools must be equally open to both white and black students. 
D) homeowners and landlords could not refuse to sell or rent their property to black citizens.

Question 20

During Reconstruction,black men in Mississippi served in all of the following positions in the state government EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) governor. 
B) secretary of state 
C) speaker of the house. 
D) lieutenant governor. 
A) governor. 
B) secretary of state 
C) speaker of the house. 
D) lieutenant governor.

Exam 11: Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction

The three southern states whose governments the Republican Party still controlled in 1876 included all of the following EXCEPT

When he ascended to the presidency in 1865,Andrew Johnson

During Reconstruction,black churchgoers and ministers generally

Which of the following statements about South Carolina politician Robert Brown Elliott is LEAST accurate?

Compared to the 2% of married white women who worked for wages,what percentage of married black women were employed outside the home in 1870?

Which of the following statements about southern blacks' political mobilization in 1865 and 1866 is LEAST accurate?

The Fourteenth Amendment divided the members of the abolitionist movement primarily because it

Which of the following statements BEST captures attitudes toward the education of freedpeople during Reconstruction?

Which of the following statements about conditions in the South in late 1865 and early 1866 is LEAST accurate?

After gaining their freedom,black families preferred that female members

A persistent rumor spread through the South in 1865 and 1866 that the federal government would provide freedpeople with

All of the following factors contributed to the end of Reconstruction EXCEPT

Which of the following statements about white supremacist organizations in the 1870s such as the Ku Klux Klan is MOST accurate?

In the mid 1870s,a black militia maintained by Governor Adelbert Ames clashed frequently with paramilitary White Leagues in an intermittent civil war fought in which state?

What effect did the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment have on suffrage in the South?

Which of the following statements about the Freedmen's Bureau is LEAST accurate?

Which of the following statements about the education of freedpeople in the Reconstruction era is LEAST accurate?

Which of the following statements about Lincoln's Reconstruction policy is LEAST accurate?

The Civil Rights Act,passed in 1875,stipulated that

During Reconstruction,black men in Mississippi served in all of the following positions in the state government EXCEPT

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