American History 2

How did sharecropping help shape the social and economic systems of the postwar South? Select one: A. It empowered former slaves to become capitalists by allowing them to become merchants and open their own banks. B. It enabled rapid industrialization by forcing former slaves and poor whites off the farms. C. It prevented the Southern population--black and white--from moving north for jobs. D. It accelerated the process by which southern yeoman farmers and sharecroppers favored cash crops, especially cotton.

It accelerated the process by which southern yeoman farmers and sharecroppers favored cash crops, especially cotton.

What was the first accomplishment of the Fourteenth Amendment? Select one: A. It formally ended slavery in the United States. B. It guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race. C. It granted citizenship to all men and women born in the United States regardless of race. D. It required former Confederates to petition for a pardon.

It granted citizenship to all men and women born in the United States

Why did supporters of women's suffrage oppose ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment? Select one: A. It was proposed by men. B. They believed women had suffered enough and deserved emancipation. C. They thought the Fourteenth Amendment provisions were adequate. D. It would subject elite, educated women to the rule of lower-class and illiterate men, especially immigrants and African Americans.

It would subject elite, educated women to the rule of lower-class and illiterate men, especially immigrants and African Americans.

What was the first significant postwar attempt to organize working people into a labor organization? Select one: A. American Federation of Labor B. Congress of Industrial Organizations C. Knights of Labor D. National Labor Union

National Labor Union

What did the First Reconstruction Act of March 2, 1867, provide? Select one: A. It established former Confederate states as territories and divided them into military districts. B. It extended the Freedmen's Bureau over President Johnson's veto. C. It impeached President Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors." D. It required ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.

it established former confederate states as territories and divided them into military districts.

Under the sharecropping system, Select one: A. government subsidies made up the difference between agricultural prices and the cost of living index. B. landowners often received less than one half of the crops. C. landowners provided land, tools, seed, and work animals. D. sharecroppers received one half of the yield of crops

landowners provided land, tools, seed, and work animals.

The Fifteenth Amendment Select one: A. banished involuntary servitude in the United States. B. established native birth or naturalization as a definition of national citizenship. C. prohibited members of the Ku Klux Klan from voting. D. prohibited the use of race, color, or previous condition of servitude to disqualify voters.

prohibited the use of race, color, or previous condition of servitude to disqualify voters.

Those who advocated a harsh peace for the South and citizenship for former slaves were called what? Select one: A. Grand Old Party B. Liberal Republicans C. Mugwumps D. Radical Republicans

radical republicans

What is meant by the term "redemption"? Select one: A. accepting former Confederate states back into the Union B. cleansing the Republican Party of the taint of corruption and scandal C. restoration of local, white control in former Confederate states D. return of "that old-time religion" in the South

restoration of local, white control in former Confederate states

What labor system for former slaves developed soon after plantation owners reclaimed their land after the Civil War? A. crop lien system B. share tenant system C. sharecropping system D. wage employment

sharecropping system

Which amendment to the Constitution officially ended slavery, or "involuntary servitude," in the United States? Select one: A. Eighteenth Amendment B. Fifteenth Amendment C. Fourteenth Amendment D. Thirteenth Amendment

thirteenth amendment

When Congress first created the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865, what was its purpose? Select one: a. to assist in the distribution of confiscated land to former slaves b. to oversee labor-management contracts of former slaves c. to supervise elections to ensure freedmen could vote d. to take care of legal issues for freedmen

to assist in the distribution of confiscated land to former slaves

What was the principal goal of terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan? Select one: A. to enable white yeoman farmers to achieve prosperity B. to keep the carpetbag-scalawag-African American coalition intact C. to prevent immigrants from taking jobs from American-born laborers D. to restore white supremacy in the South

to restore white supremacy in the South

President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction required 10 percent of what group to swear future loyalty to the United States? A. current residents of a state B. elected officials who had served in Confederate governments C. former Confederate soldiers and sailors D. voting population of a state in 1860

voting population of a state in 1860

What did the Republican Party's nomination of Ulysses S. Grant for president in 1868 signify? Select one: A. a fear that the Democratic Party would nominate him if they did not B. a retreat of the Republican Party from radicalism C. that they were so confident of victory that they could nominate someone who had never held elective office before D. that the Civil War had left an angry scar on America

a retreat of the Republican Party from radicalism