Question 1

Andrew Johnson was acquitted in the Senate because _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  the President's attorneys argued for a wide interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" 
B)  seven Republican senators broke with the party leadership and voted for acquittal 
C)  the Senate knew that the House of Representatives would never vote for impeachment 
D)  the prosecution argued that Stanton's removal did not violate the Tenure of Office Act 
E)  Republicans feared that Johnson's removal would strengthen the executive branch 
A)  the President's attorneys argued for a wide interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" 
B)  seven Republican senators broke with the party leadership and voted for acquittal 
C)  the Senate knew that the House of Representatives would never vote for impeachment 
D)  the prosecution argued that Stanton's removal did not violate the Tenure of Office Act 
E)  Republicans feared that Johnson's removal would strengthen the executive branch

Question 2

Why did the House of Representatives impeach President Johnson?

Accepted Answer

A)  because he dismissed officers in the southern military districts 
B)  because he challenged the Tenure in Office Act by removing the Secretary of War 
C)  because he vetoed the First and Second Reconstruction Acts 
D)  because he attempted to abolish the Freedmen's Bureau 
E)  because he opposed the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment 
A)  because he dismissed officers in the southern military districts 
B)  because he challenged the Tenure in Office Act by removing the Secretary of War 
C)  because he vetoed the First and Second Reconstruction Acts 
D)  because he attempted to abolish the Freedmen's Bureau 
E)  because he opposed the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 3

President Andrew Johnson was NOT a(n)_______.

Accepted Answer

A)  southerner 
B)  Democrat 
C)  opponent of slave owners 
D)  supporter of African-American rights 
E)  Unionist 
A)  southerner 
B)  Democrat 
C)  opponent of slave owners 
D)  supporter of African-American rights 
E)  Unionist

Question 4

Which one of the following groups was not part of the southern Republican party of 1868?

Accepted Answer

A)  businessmen hoping for government support 
B)  poor white farmers 
C)  newly enfranchised African Americans 
D)  white planters 
E)  "scalawags" and carpetbaggers 
A)  businessmen hoping for government support 
B)  poor white farmers 
C)  newly enfranchised African Americans 
D)  white planters 
E)  "scalawags" and carpetbaggers

Question 5

What was the intent of many northerners who went south after the war?

Accepted Answer

A)  They wanted to carry reforms to an area they felt needed change. 
B)  They wanted to keep African Americans adrift between slavery and freedom. 
C)  They wanted to acquire land and to fight for their own enfranchisement. 
D)  They wanted to ensure that the South would not embrace interracial democracy. 
E)  They wanted to oppose the Reconstruction plan of the Radical Republicans. 
A)  They wanted to carry reforms to an area they felt needed change. 
B)  They wanted to keep African Americans adrift between slavery and freedom. 
C)  They wanted to acquire land and to fight for their own enfranchisement. 
D)  They wanted to ensure that the South would not embrace interracial democracy. 
E)  They wanted to oppose the Reconstruction plan of the Radical Republicans.

Question 6

What was the main reason for the Ku Klux Klan's success in the South after 1868?

Accepted Answer

A)  popular support from whites of all social classes 
B)  its centralized political organization 
C)  its support from the southern state Republican governments 
D)  the persistent threat of a violent black uprising 
E)  the Force Act, which protected terrorist groups like the Klan 
A)  popular support from whites of all social classes 
B)  its centralized political organization 
C)  its support from the southern state Republican governments 
D)  the persistent threat of a violent black uprising 
E)  the Force Act, which protected terrorist groups like the Klan

Question 7

The congressional answer to Andrew Johnson's resistance toward Radical Reconstruction was the _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  Fourteenth Amendment 
B)  Ten Percent plan 
C)  Wade-Davis Bill 
D)  Civil Rights Act 
E)  Freedmen's Bureau Bill 
A)  Fourteenth Amendment 
B)  Ten Percent plan 
C)  Wade-Davis Bill 
D)  Civil Rights Act 
E)  Freedmen's Bureau Bill

Question 8

What was the role of the North in the failure of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

The role of the North in the failure of

Question 9

All of the following contributed to the rift that developed between President Johnson and Congressional Republicans EXCEPT _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  the appointment of provisional southern governors 
B)  the passage of the Black Codes 
C)  the veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill 
D)  the veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 
E)  the refusal to seat the recently elected southern delegation 
A)  the appointment of provisional southern governors 
B)  the passage of the Black Codes 
C)  the veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill 
D)  the veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 
E)  the refusal to seat the recently elected southern delegation

Question 10

Which of the following statements reflects Lincoln's view of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

A)  Free amnesty for all southerners including those who had willingly aided the Confederacy. 
B)  Reconstruction would guarantee full political and civil equality for southern blacks. 
C)  Congress would determine the terms for readmission of the seceded states. 
D)  Pardons would be granted to all southerners who took an oath to the Union. 
E)  The president and Congress would work together to readmit the Confederate states. 
A)  Free amnesty for all southerners including those who had willingly aided the Confederacy. 
B)  Reconstruction would guarantee full political and civil equality for southern blacks. 
C)  Congress would determine the terms for readmission of the seceded states. 
D)  Pardons would be granted to all southerners who took an oath to the Union. 
E)  The president and Congress would work together to readmit the Confederate states.

Question 11

The first bill ever passed over a presidential veto was the _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  Wade-Davis Bill 
B)  Freedmen's Bureau extension bill 
C)  Civil Rights Act of 1866 
D)  Tenure of Office Act 
E)  First Reconstruction Act 
A)  Wade-Davis Bill 
B)  Freedmen's Bureau extension bill 
C)  Civil Rights Act of 1866 
D)  Tenure of Office Act 
E)  First Reconstruction Act

Question 12

Why did the South have such a difficult time restoring its economy? How did sharecropping reduce many African Americans to permanent tenant-farmer status?

Accepted Answer

The South had a difficult time restoring

Question 13

Which of the following required 50 percent of southern voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union before the southern states could regain their status as states?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fourteenth Amendment 
B)  Fifteenth Amendment 
C)  Loyalty Act 
D)  Tenure of Office Act 
E)  Wade-Davis Bill 
A)  Fourteenth Amendment 
B)  Fifteenth Amendment 
C)  Loyalty Act 
D)  Tenure of Office Act 
E)  Wade-Davis Bill

Question 14

After rejecting Johnson's Reconstruction plan,what was the basis of Congress's program?

Accepted Answer

A)  social and moral regeneration of the South 
B)  confiscation and redistribution of plantations 
C)  enfranchisement of both the freedmen and ex-Confederates 
D)  guarantees for the rights of all citizens with the Fourteenth Amendment 
E)  pardons for members of the planter class who asked for them 
A)  social and moral regeneration of the South 
B)  confiscation and redistribution of plantations 
C)  enfranchisement of both the freedmen and ex-Confederates 
D)  guarantees for the rights of all citizens with the Fourteenth Amendment 
E)  pardons for members of the planter class who asked for them

Andrew Johnson was acquitted in the Senate because _______.

Why did the House of Representatives impeach President Johnson?

President Andrew Johnson was NOT a(n)_______.

Which one of the following groups was not part of the southern Republican party of 1868?

What was the intent of many northerners who went south after the war?

What was the main reason for the Ku Klux Klan's success in the South after 1868?

The congressional answer to Andrew Johnson's resistance toward Radical Reconstruction was the _______.

What was the role of the North in the failure of Reconstruction?

All of the following contributed to the rift that developed between President Johnson and Congressional Republicans EXCEPT _______.

Which of the following statements reflects Lincoln's view of Reconstruction?

The first bill ever passed over a presidential veto was the _______.

Why did the South have such a difficult time restoring its economy? How did sharecropping reduce many African Americans to permanent tenant-farmer status?

Which of the following required 50 percent of southern voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union before the southern states could regain their status as states?

After rejecting Johnson's Reconstruction plan,what was the basis of Congress's program?

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Exam 16: The Agony of Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson was acquitted in the Senate because _______.

Why did the House of Representatives impeach President Johnson?

President Andrew Johnson was NOT a(n)_______.

Which one of the following groups was not part of the southern Republican party of 1868?

What was the intent of many northerners who went south after the war?

What was the main reason for the Ku Klux Klan's success in the South after 1868?

The congressional answer to Andrew Johnson's resistance toward Radical Reconstruction was the _______.

What was the role of the North in the failure of Reconstruction?

All of the following contributed to the rift that developed between President Johnson and Congressional Republicans EXCEPT _______.

Which of the following statements reflects Lincoln's view of Reconstruction?

The first bill ever passed over a presidential veto was the _______.

Why did the South have such a difficult time restoring its economy? How did sharecropping reduce many African Americans to permanent tenant-farmer status?

Which of the following required 50 percent of southern voters to take an oath of loyalty to the Union before the southern states could regain their status as states?

After rejecting Johnson's Reconstruction plan,what was the basis of Congress's program?

New World Encounters

New World Experiments: England’s Seventeenth-century Colonies

Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society

Experience of Empire: Eighteenth Century America

The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt 1763–1783

The Republican Experiment

Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics 1788–1800

Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision

Nation Building and Nationalism

The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy

Slaves and Masters

The Pursuit of Perfection

an Age of Expansionism

The Sectional Crisis

Secession and the Civil War

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