Question 1

According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

A)  whether the federal or state government was ultimately sovereign, and whether African Americans or Native Americans were the most oppressed minority group 
B)  which party would gain the ascendancy, and how the government could regulate the economy 
C)  the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the future of North-South economic and political relations 
D)  rebuilding the North's shattered economy, and restoring the South's shattered society 
A)  whether the federal or state government was ultimately sovereign, and whether African Americans or Native Americans were the most oppressed minority group 
B)  which party would gain the ascendancy, and how the government could regulate the economy 
C)  the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the future of North-South economic and political relations 
D)  rebuilding the North's shattered economy, and restoring the South's shattered society

Question 2

Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "Redeemers"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Gradually, conservative and racist white Democrats regained political control in the former Confederate states. 
B)  A fresh wave of evangelical revivals spread across "the Bible Belt." 
C)  Southern acceptance of the end of slavery meant northern acceptance of the South as a restored section. 
D)  Southern states gradually came to experience economic prosperity and development. 
A)  Gradually, conservative and racist white Democrats regained political control in the former Confederate states. 
B)  A fresh wave of evangelical revivals spread across "the Bible Belt." 
C)  Southern acceptance of the end of slavery meant northern acceptance of the South as a restored section. 
D)  Southern states gradually came to experience economic prosperity and development.

Question 3

One measure of black efforts to experience freedom was the

Accepted Answer

A)  fact that males would rather work for wages than live the rough life of a sharecropper. 
B)  small but tidy homes built by hand in villages separate from the land they farmed. 
C)  tendency of husbands to insist that their wives and children work alongside them in the fields. 
D)  adoption of a surname. 
A)  fact that males would rather work for wages than live the rough life of a sharecropper. 
B)  small but tidy homes built by hand in villages separate from the land they farmed. 
C)  tendency of husbands to insist that their wives and children work alongside them in the fields. 
D)  adoption of a surname.

Question 4

Both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans shared an intent to

Accepted Answer

A)  provide economic assistance to former slaves. 
B)  punish the southern planter class for its rebellion. 
C)  liberally grant pardons to Confederate soldiers. 
D)  give Congress the final say in shaping the Reconstruction process. 
A)  provide economic assistance to former slaves. 
B)  punish the southern planter class for its rebellion. 
C)  liberally grant pardons to Confederate soldiers. 
D)  give Congress the final say in shaping the Reconstruction process.

According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?

Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "Redeemers"?

One measure of black efforts to experience freedom was the

Both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans shared an intent to

The First Civilizations of North America

Old Worlds, New Worlds 1400-1600

Colonization and Conflict in the South 1600-1750

Colonization and Conflict in the North 1600-1700

The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America 1689-1768

Imperial Triumph, Imperial Crisis 1754-1776

The American People and the American Revolution 1775-1783

Crisis and Constitution 1776-1789

The Early Republic 1789-1824

The Opening of America 1815-1850

The Rise of Democracy 1824-1840

Afire With Faith 1820-1850

The Old South 1820-1860

Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue 1820-1850

The Union Broken 1850-1861

Total War and the Republic 1861-1865

The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West 1870-1914

The New Industrial Order 1870-1914

The Rise of an Urban Order 1870-1914

The Political System Under Strain at Home and Abroad 1877-1900

The Progressive ERA 1890-1920

The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order 1901-1920

The New ERA 1920-1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1939

Americas Rise to Globalism 1927-1945

Cold War America 1945-1954

The Suburban ERA 1945-1963

Civil Rights and Uncivil Liberties 1947-1969

The Vietnam ERA 1963-1975

The Conservative Challenge 1976-1992

The United States in a Global Community 1980-Present

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Exam 17: Reconstructing the Union 1865-1877

According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?

Which of the following is an accurate explanation of the South's "Redeemers"?

One measure of black efforts to experience freedom was the

Both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans shared an intent to

The First Civilizations of North America

Old Worlds, New Worlds 1400-1600

Colonization and Conflict in the South 1600-1750

Colonization and Conflict in the North 1600-1700

The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America 1689-1768

Imperial Triumph, Imperial Crisis 1754-1776

The American People and the American Revolution 1775-1783

Crisis and Constitution 1776-1789

The Early Republic 1789-1824

The Opening of America 1815-1850

The Rise of Democracy 1824-1840

Afire With Faith 1820-1850

The Old South 1820-1860

Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue 1820-1850

The Union Broken 1850-1861

Total War and the Republic 1861-1865

The New South and the Trans-Mississippi West 1870-1914

The New Industrial Order 1870-1914

The Rise of an Urban Order 1870-1914

The Political System Under Strain at Home and Abroad 1877-1900

The Progressive ERA 1890-1920

The United States and the Collapse of the Old World Order 1901-1920

The New ERA 1920-1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1939

Americas Rise to Globalism 1927-1945

Cold War America 1945-1954

The Suburban ERA 1945-1963

Civil Rights and Uncivil Liberties 1947-1969

The Vietnam ERA 1963-1975

The Conservative Challenge 1976-1992

The United States in a Global Community 1980-Present

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