Period 5B Quiz

Which of the following best characterizes the "sectional reunion" Blight descnhes? (A)Gilded Age finacnial policies encouraged economic growth in North and the South. (B) the federal govemment removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves. (C)political alliances united northern and southern members of the Democratic Party to win control of both houses in Congress. (D)White laborers in the and African American farmers in the South joined in the Populist movement.

(B) the federal govemment removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves.

In 1861 the north went to war with the south primarily to (A) liberate the slaves (B) prevent European powers from meddling in American affairs (C)preserve the Union (D) average political defeats and insults inflicted by the South (E) forestall a Southern invasion of the North

(C)preserve the Union

Which Constitutional amendment was most directly threatened by the situation depicted here ("Of course he wants to vote the Democratic ticket!" by A.B. Frost, Harper's Weekly, 1876)? a. 1st b. 13th c. 15th d. 19th

15th

The cartoon above ("strong" government) is intended to express (A) A critique of Reconstruction (B) opposition to women's rights (C) opposition to states' rights (D) support for strong government (E) opposition to the draft

A critique of Reconstruction

During Reconstruction, which of following was a change that took place in the South? Many African Americans found manufacturing employment. Many White Southerners supported African Americans' rights African Americans favored the Democratic Party. African Americans were able to exercise political rights

African Americans were able to exercise political rights

."Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation: how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas—healing and justice.... [T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. One might conclude that this imbalance between outcomes of sectional healing and racial justice was simply America's inevitable historical condition...nut theories of inevitability...are rarely satisfying.... The sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war was a political triumph by the late nineteenth century, but it could not have been achieved without the subjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of American history from Appomattox to World War l." which of the following best explains the reason for the reconciliation described by Blight? A) Mass immigration from abroad and internal migration of African Americans reduced racial tensions in the North and South. B)The federal government established a limited social welfare state that reduced regional differences between the North and South. C)Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve. D)The theory of Social Darwinism encouraged political and business leaders to reduce efforts to create racial equality in the South.

C)Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve.

One key change immediately following the Civil War aimed at achieving the "racial justice" that Blight describes was the Establishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rights creation of new agencies to ensure racial integration in employment campaign by the federal government to eliminate poverty desegregation of the United States armed forces

Establishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rights

"You will, no doubt, be hard on us rioters tomorrow morning- but that 300-dollar law has made us nobodies, vagabonds and cast-outs of society, for whom nobody cares when we must go to war and be shot down." The statement above refers to conscription during which conflict? The American Revolution The Mexican-American War The Civil War The First World War The Vietnam War

The Civil War

This cartoon ("Of course he wants to vote the Democratic ticket!" by A.B. Frost, Harper's Weekly, 1876) is most likely drawn from the perspective of a a. Democrat b. Whig C.Southerner d.Republican

d.Republican

The situation depicted in the image (The Freedmen's Bureau) best serves as evidence of the expansion of federal power decline of an agrarian economy increase in sectional divisions Institutionalization of racial segregation

expansion of federal power

"The slaves in the United States are treated with barbarous inhumanity; they are overworked, underfed, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient sleep.... They are often kept confined in the stocks day and night for weeks together." "Slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world.... They enjoy liberty because they are oppressed by neither care nor labor.... The women do little hard work.... Men and stout boys work, on the average, in good weather, not more than nine hours a day." The issue being debated in the two excerpts was most directly resolved by the (A) passage of the Missouri Compromise (B) election of Abraham Lincoln as president (C) ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment (D) formation of the Populist Party

ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

The image most strongly supports the argument that Reconstruction led to the unfair punishment of White Southerners by the North encouraged large-scale rebellions by former slaves involved unconstitutional abuses of government power temporarily altered race relations in the South

temporarily altered race relations in the South

"We are just now making a yeat pretense of anxiety to civilize the [American] Indians.... As we have taken into our national family seven millions of Negroes ... it would seem that the time may have arrived when we can very properly make at least the attempt to assimilate our two hundred and fifty thousand Indians "The school at Carlisle is an attempt on the part of the government to do this.... Carlisle fills young Indians with the spirit ofloyalty to the stars and stripes, and then moves them out into our communities to show by their conduct and ability that the Indian is no different from the white or the colored, that he has the inalienable right to liberty and opportunity that the white and the negro have." Which of the following developments would the author have been most likely to use to support his assertion that African Americans had joined the United States "national family"? (A) The actions ofNew South leaders to promote industrialization (B) The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (C)ratification of constitutional amendments during Reconstruction (D) The passage of new regulations on voting by Southern states

(C)ratification of constitutional amendments during Reconstruction

Why did Congressional Reconstuction end in 1877? (A) The freed slaves had been successfully integrated into Southern society. The treaty ending the Civil War had set such a time limit. (C) Most of the politically active Black people had left the South for Northern cities. (D)The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election. (E) The United States needed the troops stationed in the South to confront the French in Mexico.

The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election.

To the Senate of the United States: I have examined with care the bill which originated in the Senate, and has been passed by the two Houses of Congress, to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a bureau for the reliefoffreedmen and refugees, and for other purposes." Having, with much regret, come to the conclusion that it would not consistent with the public welfare to give myapproval to the measure, I return the bill to the Senate wi my objections to its becoming a law. It would, by its very nature, apply with the most force to those parts of the United States in which th freedmen most abound; and it expressly extends the existing temporaryjurisdiction ofthe Freedmen's Bureau, with greatly enlarged powers, over those States in which the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion I cannot reconcile a system ofmilitary jurisdiction ofthis kind with the words of the Constitution. Which of the following best characterizes the intent of the legislation in question here? (A)to reorder race relations in the South (B) To end segregation in public schools (C) To bring about the end of the Civil War (D)To rebuild the infrastructure ofthe South

to reorder race relations in the South