Question 1

Which black southern university was named after the head of the Freedmen's Bureau?

Accepted Answer

A) Fisk University 
B) Hampton Institute 
C) Howard University 
D) Biddle Memorial Institute

Question 2

Which of the following statements about sharecropping is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) The system proved to be an inefficient method of production,and the South never again produced as much cotton as it had before the war. 
B) The system emerged as a compromise between masters and freedpeople,who preferred the semblance of freedom that it gave compared to the close supervision and uncertain recompense associated with wage labor. 
C) The system did not give freedpeople direct ownership of land,but it did allow them to live on a given plot and keep a portion of the crop which they produced on it. 
D) The system cast many freedpeople into a cycle of ever-growing debt from which they stood little chance of escaping.

Question 3

Economically,most freedpeople in agricultural regions associated freedom primarily with

Accepted Answer

A) the ownership of land. 
B) the right to earn good wages. 
C) the right to enter into contracts. 
D) the right to learn a skilled trade.

Question 4

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 did all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) divide the ex-Confederate states into five districts governed by martial law. 
B) require ex-Confederate states to appoint a certain number of black citizens to offices in the state governments. 
C) require ex-Confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of being readmitted to the Union. 
D) require ex-Confederate states to hold new constitutional conventions with delegates chosen by universal male suffrage.

Question 5

The Black Codes implemented by southern states under Presidential Reconstruction did all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) deny blacks the right to vote. 
B) deny blacks the right to testify against whites in courts of law. 
C) permit judges to take black children away from "unfit" parents and give them over as "apprentices" to white employers. 
D) deny blacks the right to enter into contracts.

Question 6

What contributed MOST to the collapse of the Freedmen's Bank in 1874?

Accepted Answer

A) The bank could not secure deposits because not enough blacks made enough money to keep the bank afloat. 
B) The federal government refused to take any action to assist the bank when it hit hard times after the Panic of 1873. 
C) Rich industrialists manipulated the bank for their own profit,weakening the bank's finances before a general depression brought it down. 
D) As president of the bank,Frederick Douglass insisted on loaning out money to freedpeople who had no collateral,quickly exhausting the bank's funds.

Question 7

Which of the following statements about the Union League of America is LEAST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) It attracted supporters with its ritualism and its aura of secrecy as well as its devotion to liberty and equality. 
B) It was an openly partisan organization,drumming up southern support for the Republican Party. 
C) It was originally founded during Reconstruction by black New England soldiers who wanted to expand black rights in the North. 
D) As it spread throughout the South,the League gained the support of large numbers of black men who turned to it for political guidance.

Question 8

During Reconstruction,South Carolina witnessed

Accepted Answer

A) the election of a black man as governor of the state. 
B) a majority of black representatives in the state's legislature. 
C) a majority of black senators in the state's senate. 
D) the fewest political gains for African Americans of any ex-Confederate state.

Question 9

Which state elected the largest number of black members to the House of Representatives?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

What was the only ex-Confederate state to be exempted from the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

Accepted Answer

A) Mississippi 
B) Virginia 
C) Tennessee 
D) Arkansas

Question 11

Which of the following statements about the Southern Homestead Act of 1866 is MOST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) The act distributed public lands exclusively to freedpeople. 
B) Black families gained the most land through the act in states with the largest black populations. 
C) Although the act opened lands to both whites and blacks,it was blacks who benefitted the most. 
D) Thanks in part to the act,roughly 6% of all freed families owned their own land by the mid-1870s.

Question 12

With regard to politics,black women during Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

A) briefly enjoyed the right to vote at the height of congressional radicalism. 
B) vocally expressed their opinion on important matters and tried to influence political decisions. 
C) had no engagement with and little interest in political affairs,like all women of the time. 
D) sometimes attempted to quietly influence their male relations,but carefully avoided overstepping the established bounds of women's political participation.

Question 13

All of the following groups supported the enfranchisement of southern blacks in 1866 EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) black and white abolitionists. 
B) northern Republicans. 
C) industrialists. 
D) Johnson and his supporters in Congress.

Question 14

The two most powerful white supremacist terrorist organizations during Reconstruction were the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and

Accepted Answer

A) the Constitutional Union Guards. 
B) the Pale Faces. 
C) the White Brotherhood. 
D) the Knights of the White Camelia.

Question 15

How many black men served in the House of Representatives between 1869 and 1901?

Accepted Answer

A) 12 
B) 20 
C) 36 
D) 45

Question 16

Which of the following statements about gender and race in the Reconstruction South is MOST accurate?

Accepted Answer

A) Almost half of black families in this period lacked a male head of household. 
B) In black families,matriarchal authority was more prevalent than patriarchal authority. 
C) When dealing with the Freedman's Bureau,men tended to complain about individual mistreatment whereas women complained about the mistreatment of members of their families. 
D) Whites criticized black women who emulated white women by staying at home instead of working for wages.

Question 17

Which constitutional amendment ostensibly guaranteed black men throughout the nation the right to vote on an equal basis with white men?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

What is the claim to fame of Hiram Revels and Blanche K.Bruce?

Accepted Answer

A) They were the only black men to serve as state governors in the nineteenth century. 
B) They were the only black men to serve in the U.S.Senate until the second half of the twentieth century. 
C) They were the first black men to serve in a presidential cabinet,under Grant and Hayes respectively. 
D) They cast the deciding votes which resulted in President Johnson's impeachment.

Exam 11: Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction