Question 1

What was true about most southern African Americans who held political power during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

A)  They alienated whites by pushing for massive land restriction. 
B)  They concentrated their efforts on educational and political reforms. 
C)  They used the Freedmen's Bureau to oppress ex-Confederates. 
D)  They pushed for educational integration. 
E)  They were more corrupt than their white counterparts.

Question 2

How did former slaves' ideas about their freedom conflict with the ideas of their northern allies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Their northern allies wanted freed blacks to continue working on plantations for white planters, but African Americans did not want to return to plantation life. 
B)  Freed blacks wanted to move to the North and begin new lives, but their northern allies felt they needed to stay in the South. 
C)  Their northern allies felt that freed blacks should continue with their communal work system, but freed blacks wanted to take part in the piecework system. 
D)  Freed blacks wanted to move to new land of their own, while their northern allies felt they should remain on the land where their families had lived for generations. 
E)  Freed blacks wanted to continue with a family-based communal work system, but northerners wanted them to become individual wage earners.

Question 3

The Redeemers _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  continued the policies established during Reconstruction 
B)  offered new programs for working people and tenant farmers 
C)  were loyal to the class structure of the antebellum South 
D)  believed in the principles of laissez-faire and white supremacy 
E)  were mostly members of the old planter aristocracy

Question 4

In what way did white farmers resemble black southerners in their treatment at the hands of southern governments run by the Redeemers?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were often denied the right to vote and were intimidated at the polls. 
B)  They were forced to pay high taxes on any imported goods from the North. 
C)  They were not allowed to own property and could work only for rich planters. 
D)  They could not borrow any federal money and were forced to give up their farms. 
E)  They were forced into deeper debt due to the crop lien system that favored local merchants.

Question 5

How did Black Codes seem like another form of slavery to African Americans?

Accepted Answer

A)  Black Codes severely limited the legal and economic rights of African Americans. 
B)  Black Codes forced many African Americans to work for whites for free. 
C)  Black Codes made wage labor for African Americans a crime. 
D)  Black Codes restricted African Americans to the plantations where they had been enslaved. 
E)  Black Codes encouraged whites to join the militia to attack or murder African Americans.

Question 6

President Andrew Johnson was eventually _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  loved by most African Americans 
B)  admired by wealthy southern planters 
C)  opposed by Radical Republicans 
D)  compromising in his actions and policies 
E)  determined to carry on with Lincoln's plans

Question 7

The man who became president of the United States after Lincoln's assassination was _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  Robert E. Lee 
B)  Andrew Johnson 
C)  Ulysses S. Grant 
D)  William H. Seward 
E)  Andrew Jackson

Question 8

Analyze the political struggle between the presidency and Congress over how to reconstruct the Union.What was at stake in this contest?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

Who was Robert Smalls?

Accepted Answer

A)  He was an African-American Congressman during Reconstruction. 
B)  He was a former general from the Union Army. 
C)  He was an official in the Confederate government. 
D)  He was a crucial advisor to President Lincoln. 
E)  He was a southern planter who refused to free his slaves.

Question 10

Which of these tainted President Grant's first term in office?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Teapot Dome scandal 
B)  congressional override of his veto 
C)  failure of the Wade-Davis Bill 
D)  the Crédit Mobilier scandal 
E)  kickbacks given to Grant for lands taken from former members of the Confederacy

Question 11

How did the northern military help some former slaves work toward economic independence?

Accepted Answer

A)  Northern soldiers were tasked with the assignment of teaching former slaves the practice of piecework. 
B)  The Union Army enforced the contract-labor system by making sure that southern planters offered flexible wages. 
C)  General Sherman issued an order that set aside the islands and coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia for exclusive black occupancy. 
D)  The northern military established an economic base for former slaves in parts of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 
E)  Union generals issued an order that led to the formation of the sharecropping system, which allowed black farmers to work their land free and clear.

Question 12

Which one of the following Constitutional Amendments abolished slavery?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 13

President Lincoln's response to the Wade-Davis Bill was to _______.

Accepted Answer

A)  accept it completely 
B)  reluctantly support it 
C)  express no opinion on it 
D)  stop it with a pocket veto 
E)  ask Congress to reconsider

Question 14

Which of the following constitutional amendments attempted to ensure the civil rights of former slaves?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

How might Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated?

Accepted Answer

A)  African Americans might have gained political and economic rights sooner, since Lincoln was a strong supporter of equal rights for all Americans. 
B)  Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan would not have developed in the South and African Americans would not have been violently attacked. 
C)  Women would also have gained the right to vote, since Lincoln would have encouraged this in the Fifteenth Amendment. 
D)  Lincoln would have refused to allow any former Confederates to participate in the Republican government. 
E)  Since Lincoln favored more leniency toward the South, readmission of southern states might have happened more rapidly.

Question 16

What groups comprised the southern Republican party during Reconstruction? What motivated each to support the Republicans? Why did the southern Republican party fail?

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

Why were some American women angered by the Fifteenth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

A)  It gave voting rights to white women, but not to African-American women. 
B)  White women did not want African Americans to have the right to vote. 
C)  It gave voting rights to African-American men, but not to any women. 
D)  It did not make the imposition of poll taxes, property qualifications, or literacy tests illegal. 
E)  It allowed African Americans to vote in the North, but not in the South.

Question 18

What was the main belief of the Radical Republicans?

Accepted Answer

A)  that the process of Reconstruction should be completed quickly 
B)  that the South should be treated with sympathy and compassion 
C)  that Reconstruction policy should be initiated by the president 
D)  that there was an inherent equality between races 
E)  that southern society should be restructured before states were readmitted

Question 19

Why did Andrew Johnson resist the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

A)  Johnson felt that these laws did not grant equal rights to African Americans, and thus pushed for further legislation. 
B)  Johnson strongly supported states' rights and felt that these laws did not allow states to manage their own affairs. 
C)  Johnson felt that by stating the rights of African Americans, state governments would be able to exploit legal loopholes. 
D)  Johnson believed that his Republican supporters would never vote for him again if he backed equal rights for African Americans. 
E)  Johnson knew that these laws would only encourage terrorist organizations to form in opposition to them.

Question 20

What was the meaning of the phrase "regeneration before Reconstruction"?

Accepted Answer

A)  restructuring southern society before readmission to the union 
B)  funding the rehabilitation of those areas in the South damaged during the war 
C)  transforming southern society, including land reform, before readmission 
D)  repudiating the debts owed by the former Confederate states to the Union 
E)  suspending military rule in the South until elections could take place

Exam 16: The Agony of Reconstruction