History 110 Chapter 16

After the Civil War, most African American farmers eventually worked A) as sharecroppers. B) as domestic servants under a system of assigned tasks. C) as field hands under a contract for wages. D) on lands they rented.

A

In his 1868 presidential campaign, Grant A) endorsed African American suffrage in the South but not in the North. B) supported the principles of Radical Republicans. C) urged Congress to pass antilynching legislation. D) denounced the KKK as a terrorist organization.

A

In response to the Panic of 1873, many debtors and unemployed workers advocated A) easy money policies, which they hoped would spur economic expansion. B) federal monetary grants to freedmen so they could open their own business and banks. C) a federal loan program to finance industrial development in the South. D) federal loans to the freedmen so they could buy their own land.

A

The Fifteenth Amendment A) stipulated that states could not deny the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. B) guaranteed African Americans equal protection under the law. C) extended the right to vote to women and blacks. D) was immediately ratified by all northern states.

A

Freed slaves, after the Civil War, A) fought hard to establish racially integrated public schools. B) showed a great desire for education as the means of escaping the ignorance of slavery. C) concentrated solely on providing primary school education for their children. D) disappointed northern reformers with their apparent lack of interest in education.

B

In Congressional debates concerning Reconstruction of the former Confederate States, Thaddeus Stevens argued that A) freedmen should not be extended the right to vote. B) southern property should be confiscated and used to give freedmen homesteads and a chance at economic independence. C) all freedmen should be given forty acres from confiscated southern land. D) the Fourteenth Amendment should extend the right to vote to women as well as to African Americans.

B

Soon after proposing his initial plan for Reconstruction, Andrew Johnson surprisingly helped subvert his own plan by A) withdrawing the Union Army from the South. B) granting pardons to many wealthy southerners. C) establishing martial law throughout the South. D) dissolving the newly elected state constitutional conventions.

B

The black codes enacted in the South after the Civil War showed that southerners A) were willing to allow African Americans equality under law. B) sought to return African Americans to a position of servility. C) recognized the need for providing basic education for African Americans. D) would leave the destiny of African Americans up to the African Americans themselves.

B

The outcome of the disputed presidential election of 1876 was significant because it A) signaled the demise of the second party system. B) brought an end to Reconstruction. C) marked the beginning of a long era of Democratic presidents. D) demonstrated that African American voters held the balance of power in southern politics.

B

The term "scalawag" was used to describe A) homeless unemployed freedmen in the South. B) native white southerners who cooperated with the Republicans. C) former plantation owners who had lost their lands. D) Union soldiers who occupied the South during Reconstruction.

B

With respect to the question of black suffrage in the South, Andrew Johnson in 1865 indicated in his belief that A) the right to vote should be extended to African Americans though an amendment to the Constitution. B) the federal government could never force the southern states to extend voting rights to African Americans. C) the southern states, before being allowed to re-enter the Union, should guarantee the right to vote to African American males. D) African Americans were not citizens and should not be allowed to vote.

B

African American leaders in the South during Reconstruction A) argued that voting rights should be permanently denied to former Confederates. B) dominated the legislatures in several southern states. C) led efforts to establish public schools in the region. D) advocated the confiscation and redistribution of land.

C

In order to have the truly independent, self-sufficient life they wanted, many freedman sought A) a fair employer. B) the chance to move North. C) land of their own. D) social equality.

C

Many freedmen saw emancipation as the opportunity to A) punish their former masters. B) take advantage of the economic opportunities offered them by northern factory owners. C) create their own institutions free of white control. D) demand passage of legislation outlawing social, economic, and political discrimination on the basis of race.

C

Which of the following is true of Johnson's impeachment trial? A) Ironically, Johnson was saved by the Radical Republicans, who argued that impeachment should not be used as a political weapon. B) Because of public outrage at the way Johnson was being forced out of office, the Senate voted to acquit him. C) Congress could not use impeachment as a political weapon against the president. D) Although Johnson was found guilty, his appeal to the Supreme court prevented his removal from office.

C

After the Civil War, the main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan in the South was to A) persecute African Americans. B) close integrated schools. C) maintain law and order. D) intimidate Republicans.

D

Although the South lost the Civil War, it was possible that the South would gain power in Congress when readmitted to the Union because A) southern congressmen could use the threat of secession to intimidate northern representatives. B) southern congressmen would chair the key congressional committees. C) the number of southern states had increased. D) for the purpose of congressional representation African Americans would count as a full person rather than as three-fifths of a person.

D

Congressmen who favored vigorous Reconstruction measures held that A) although particular southerners had erred, the Union itself had endured through the Civil War. B) the Reconstruction process outlined in the Constitution should be closely followed. C) the president had sole responsibility for Reconstruction. D) the Confederate states, by seceding and making war against the United States, lost their status as states and should now be treated as conquered territories.

D

The refusal of the South to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment A) caused most northerners to support the Radicals' demand that more economic opportunity be extended to freedmen. B) caused a thorough restructuring of southern society. C) led to general land reform in the South. D) forced the Republicans to abolish the "Johnson governments" in the South, form new governments, and extend the vote to freedmen.

D