Deck 1: What Does Freedom Mean

Question 1

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlaws slavery?

A) Tenth
B) Thirteenth
C) Sixteenth
D) Eighteenth
E) Twentieth

Answer 1

Thirteenth

Question 2

What was the first priority of the newly emancipated slaves?

A) Economic security
B) Recognition of basic civil rights
C) Education
D) Reunification with family and loved ones
E) Political influence

Answer 2

Reunification with family and loved ones

Question 3

The sharecropping system

A) allowed former slaves to ban together to buy land and share the profits of their combined efforts.
B) required a small tax on profits to be paid to the federal government.
C) allowed former slaves to farm plots owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest.
D) required tenants to purchase tools, seed and other items needed to cultivate land.
E) All of the above

Answer 3

allowed former slaves to farm plots owned by someone else in exchange for a share of the crop at harvest.

Question 4

The primary mission of the Freedman's Bureau in the aftermath of the Civil War was to

A) Distribute food.
B) Negotiate labor contracts between former slaves and planters.
C) Manage abandoned lands.
D) Establish schools.
E) Provide medical care.

Question 5

Which of the following limited the power of the president to remove a federal official whose appointment required Senate confirmation?

A) The Wade-Davis Bill
B) Enforcement Acts
C) Reconstruction Acts
D) Tenure of Office Act
E) None of the above

Question 6

The Enforcements Acts

A) made interference with a person's right to vote a criminal act.
B) guaranteed former slaves the right to establish schools.
C) limited the federal government's role in local elections.
D) guaranteed the rights of blacks to hold meetings and protest.
E) made obstruction of a person's right to work a criminal act.

Question 7

The Civil War ended in

A) 1835
B) 1845
C) 1855
D) 1865
E) 1875

Question 8

Reparation means :

A) Redistribution of land to former slaves
B) Redistribution of property to former slaves
C) Redistribution of land and property to former slaves
D) The granting of citizenship to all former slaves
E) The granting of citizenship to all former slaves who served in the Union army

Question 9

In the aftermath of the Civil War, which of the following caused the most indignation among White Southerners?

A) Their cities were in ruins.
B) Their currency and bonds were worthless.
C) Their property values had collapsed.
D) Their slaves were set free.
E) Their investments in slave property were erased by emancipation

Question 10

The pocket veto is a term used to describe

A) Legislation prevented from becoming law by the House of Representatives' refusal to vote.
B) Legislation prevented from becoming law by the Senate's refusal to vote.
C) Legislation prevented from becoming law by lobbying.
D) Legislation prevented from becoming law by a president's refusal to sign a bill.
E) Legislation prevented from becoming law by a majority of votes in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Question 11

Which of these is not true? The Civil Rights Bill of 1866 specifically

A) granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States, except Native Americans who lived on reservations
B) guaranteed a citizen's right to make contracts.
C) guaranteed a citizen's right to utilize the courts.
D) guaranteed a citizen's right to enjoy equal property rights.
E) guaranteed a citizen's right to vote

Question 12

Black Codes were designed to:

A) enforce the newly won rights of former slaves.
B) curtail the rights of former slaves.
C) educate former slaves about their new freedoms.
D) provide clandestine paths for former slaves to organize politically.
E) offer former slaves the means to purchase land.

Question 13

Which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution explicitly guarantees the right of citizens to vote regardless of race?

A) Twelfth
B) Thirteenth
C) Fourteenth
D) Fifteenth
E) Sixteenth

Question 14

Who is known as the "Father of Black Nationalism"?

A) Frederick Douglass
B) Martin Delany
C) Hiram Revels
D) Blanche K. Bruce
E) Charles Sumner

Question 15

Which was the last state to be readmitted to the Union?

A) Mississippi
B) Georgia
C) Alabama
D) Arkansas
E) Texas

Question 16

The word "suffrage" means

A) to experience a period of intense suffering.
B) to undergo a penalty.
C) to become worse in quality.
D) to have the right to vote.
E) to be denied the right to vote.

Question 17

Who succeeded Lincoln after his assassination?

A) Rutherford B. Hayes
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Ulysses Grant
D) Lyndon Johnson
E) Andrew Jackson

Question 18

Reconstruction is a term that refers to

A) The reunification of the nation
B) The attempt to reconstruct plantation agriculture without slaves
C) The reformulation of the role of women in society
D) The reunification of families
E) All of the above

Question 19

Which of these is not true? Early Reconstruction efforts were successful in

A) offering amnesty to all Confederate officers.
B) creating black schools in the South.
C) initiating collective action to protest against attempts to reintroduce slavery.
D) widespread distribution of aid by federal agents to former slaves in the South.
E) the introduction of the Ten Percent Plan, which allows a Confederate state to return to full statehood.

Question 20

The Radical Republicans, a nickname given to a small group of lawmakers within Congress, advocated for:

A) abolition of slavery.
B) increased federal government power.
C) equal legal rights for former slaves.
D) equal civil rights for former slaves.
E) all of the above

Question 21

The "Grandfather Clause"

A) eliminated poll taxes for anyone whose grandfather had voted.
B) ensured the right to vote to all those whose grandfather's had voted.
C) provided 40 acres to anyone whose grandfather had voted.
D) eliminated literacy tests for former confederate soldiers whose grandfathers had owned land.
E) ensured the right to vote to all former confederate soldiers whose grandfathers had owned land.

Question 22

The Amnesty Act of 1872

A) was supported by Liberal Republicans.
B) allowed Confederate leaders to run for political office.
C) enhanced the Southern black's ability to run for political office.
D) "a" and "b"
E) "b" and "c"

Question 23

The group of Republicans who called themselves the "new abolitionists" were known as

A) Moderate Democrats.
B) New Democrats.
C) New Republicans.
D) Liberal Republicans.
E) Moderate Republicans.

Question 24

During the Panic of 1873, the Freedman's Bank lost the pension of

A) some of the black soldiers.
B) some of the Confederate soldiers.
C) some of the black and Confederate soldiers.
D) all black soldiers.
E) all black and Confederate soldiers.

Question 25

"Redeemers" were

A) white Southerners who tried to restore the old former order.
B) black slaves who organized marches and protests.
C) white Northerners who went to the South to establish schools.
D) Northern blacks who traveled to the South to help establish black leaders.
E) Northern political leaders who supported the civil rights of blacks.

Question 26

Charles Sumner, the lifelong abolitionist and Senator who campaigned in favor of a strong civil rights bill was from the state of

A) Tennessee.
B) Georgia.
C) Missouri.
D) Massachusetts.
E) Virginia.

Question 27

Contributing to the growing corruption after Reconstruction were

A) the limited monies available to the federal government following the Civil War.
B) fraud and pay-offs to government officials.
C) political machines.
D) "a" and "b"
E) "b" and "c"

Question 28

"Carpetbaggers" were

A) considered by Southerners as unscrupulous Northerners looking to make a quick profit.
B) a derisive term referring to Northerners who traveled with luggage made from scraps of carpet.
C) former Union soldiers.
D) former agents of the Freedman's Bureau.
E) All of the above

Question 29

"Scalawags," were usually

A) Northerners who had moved to the South after the Civil War.
B) small southern farmers who did not like the southern elites.
C) Southerners who maintained loyalty to the Union during the Civil War.
D) "a" and "c"
E) "b" and "c"