Question 1

In 1865,what major challenges faced the nation? How did the various plans for reconstructing the nation attempt to address those challenges?

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The answer of In 1865,what major challenges faced the nation?...

Question 2

In the 1890s,the black journalist IdaB.Wells devoted her writing to attacking

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A)  the legality of segregation. 
B)  restrictions on black education. 
C)  the loss of black voting rights. 
D)  the crime of lynching. 
E)  the arguments of Booker T. Washington.

Question 3

President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction for the most part resembled the Wade-Davis Bill.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The Panic of 1873 began with the failure of a leading investment banking firm,________.

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Question 5

Grant played a leadership role among the "Liberal Republicans."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

IdaB.Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ________ in the late nineteenth-century South.

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The answer of IdaB.Wells was a black journalist who was...

Question 7

During Reconstruction,though the black share of profits were rising,the total profits of Southern agriculture were declining.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

During Reconstruction,the Southern school system

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A)  reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876. 
B)  did not allow blacks to be teachers. 
C)  initially were not segregated. 
D)  only offered primary instruction. 
E)  barely reached any children of former slaves.

Question 9

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech,Booker T.Washington

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A)  called for political and civil rights for black Americans. 
B)  criticized the federal government for abandoning southern blacks. 
C)  argued that blacks should honor their African forebears. 
D)  stated that blacks should give up in seeking equality with whites. 
E)  called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.

Question 10

In late-nineteenth-century southern politics,economic issues played a secondary role to the issue of race.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

In the South as a whole,the percentage of black officeholders during Reconstruction was always far lower than the percentage of blacks in the population.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century,southern agriculture

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A)  saw a significant diversification of its crops. 
B)  saw a decline in absentee ownership of farmland. 
C)  regained the profitability it had had prior to the Civil War. 
D)  saw a deceleration of the processes begun in the postwar years. 
E)  saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.

Question 13

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v.Ferguson (1896)that

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A)  communities could have schools for whites only if there were no schools for blacks. 
B)  the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional. 
C)  racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations." 
D)  private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination. 
E)  segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.

Question 14

The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular vote,but he did not win the presidency.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871

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A)  was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South. 
B)  was designed to support the Black Codes. 
C)  was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant. 
D)  gave legal protection to the Ku Klux Klan. 
E)  allowed white Southerners to maintain a police state.

Question 16

Booker T.Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Democrats restored to power in the South were known variously as the "________" or the "Bourbons."

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Question 18

During Reconstruction,regarding land ownership in the South,

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A)  the Freedmen's Bureau distributed millions of acres of land to freedmen. 
B)  most plantations abandoned during the Civil War remained vacant. 
C)  ownership by both whites and blacks increased. 
D)  the federal government vigorously acted to confiscate land owned by former Confederates. 
E)  ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased.

Question 19

Advocates of the "New South"

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A)  opposed using northern capital. 
B)  discouraged white women from working outside of the home. 
C)  promoted southern industry and railroad development. 
D)  challenged the assumptions of white supremacy. 
E)  in fact advocated a return to the plantation system of the antebellum South.

Question 20

The Alabama claims

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A)  saw the United States refuse to pay Alabama for losses incurred during the Civil War. 
B)  involved complaints by the United States against England. 
C)  ended an experiment in black landownership. 
D)  marked a renewed effort in asserting the rights of states over federal authority. 
E)  were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction.

Exam 15: Reconstruction and the New South

In 1865,what major challenges faced the nation? How did the various plans for reconstructing the nation attempt to address those challenges?

In the 1890s,the black journalist IdaB.Wells devoted her writing to attacking

President Johnson's plans for Reconstruction for the most part resembled the Wade-Davis Bill.

The Panic of 1873 began with the failure of a leading investment banking firm,________.

Grant played a leadership role among the "Liberal Republicans."

IdaB.Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ________ in the late nineteenth-century South.

During Reconstruction,though the black share of profits were rising,the total profits of Southern agriculture were declining.

During Reconstruction,the Southern school system

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech,Booker T.Washington

In late-nineteenth-century southern politics,economic issues played a secondary role to the issue of race.

In the South as a whole,the percentage of black officeholders during Reconstruction was always far lower than the percentage of blacks in the population.

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century,southern agriculture

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v.Ferguson (1896) that

The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular vote,but he did not win the presidency.

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871

Booker T.Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.

Democrats restored to power in the South were known variously as the "________" or the "Bourbons."

During Reconstruction,regarding land ownership in the South,

Advocates of the "New South"

The Alabama claims