Unit 6 APUSH Semester Exam

Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln's ticket as vice president in his second term

to appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners.

Andrew Johnson was impeached and nearly removed from office on the grounds of his

violation of the Tenure of Office Act in removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton

During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles, which included all of the following except

voting

In the aftermath of the Civil War

waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government.

A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was

white resentment of the ability and success of black legislators.

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when

the last federal troops were removed in 1877.

The Billion-Dollar Congress quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by

expanding pensions for Civil War veterans.

The biggest failure of Reconstruction governments was that they

failed to change basic white attitudes in the South and they were unable to effectively reorganize the South's social structure.

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

freed slaves must be granted the right to vote

During the Gilded Age, the Democrats and the Republicans

had few significant policy differences.

Despite his status as a military hero, General Ulysses S. Grant proved to be a weak political leader because he

had no political experience and was a poor judge of character.

As a solution to the depression that followed the panic of 1873, debtors strongly advocated

inflation through issuance of far more greenback paper currency.

Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

intimidating blacks and undermining them politically.

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using

literacy requirements. lynching poll taxes. economic intimidation.

Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code were often subject to

lynching

In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

owed his victory to the votes of former slaves.

The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people

During the Gilded Age, the lifeblood of both the Democratic and the Republican parties was

political patronage.

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.

In 1867, Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration's greatest success in foreign relations when he

purchased Alaska from Russia.

In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

"separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.

Which of the following were northerners who came South after the Civil War to take part in the Reconstruction of the conquered Confederacy?

Carpetbaggers

____________________ believed that the Southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, "conquered provinces" that had to seek readmission on whatever terms Congress demanded.

Congressional Republicans

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was

Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau

New York's notoriously corrupt Boss Tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of

New York Times exposés and the cartoons of Thomas Nast.

The primary underlying reason that Reconstruction ended in 1877 was that

Northern voters had grown weary of the effort to Reconstruct the South and generally lost interest

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1877?

The Democrats took back the House and the Senate.

Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?

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

Reconstruction might have been more successful if

The radical program stronger protection of political rights had been enacted.

Which of the following is NOT a requirement set by the Reconstruction Act of 1867 for Southern states' readmission to the Union?

The state had to pay reparations and provide land grants to all former slaves.

Which of the following most accurately describes carpetbaggers?

They were Northerners who sought economic opportunity in the South after the Civil War.

Which of the following was not one of the Reconstruction-era constitutional amendments?

Twelfth

That a talented tenth of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of

W. E. B. Du Bois.

Economic unrest and the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act led to the rise of the pro-silver leader

William Jennings Bryan.

In President Andrew Johnson's view, the Freedmen's Bureau was

a meddlesome agency that should be killed.

The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as

a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.

One result of Republican hard money policies in the mid-1870s was

a political turn to the Democrats and new Greenback Labor party.

The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

a restriction against black migration from the South.

The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as

a secret terrorist organization.

President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction

aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met.

In criticizing Booker T. Washington's educational emphasis on manual labor and industrial training, W.E.B. DuBois emphasized instead that black education should concentrate on

an intellectually gifted talented tenth.

In response to President Andrew Johnson's relatively mild reconstruction program, the Southern states did all of the following EXCEPT

attempt to reinstitute slavery

The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in

education

Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?

A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

ensure a stable and subservient labor supply

Which of the following was NOT a result of Reconstruction?

Government grants of forty acres and a mule to each freedman

The sequence of presidential terms of the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age (including Cleveland's two nonconsecutive terms) was

Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Cleveland.

Which of the following statements is true of the Wade-Davis Bill?

It was pocket-vetoed by Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office; the second was

James Garfield.

Congress brought impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson primarily because

Johnson sought to block the punitive aspects of Congressional Reconstruction

In 1865, Southern

blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity.

In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Crédit Mobilizer

bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.

President James A. Garfield was assassinated

by a deranged, disappointed office seeker.

The legal codes that established the system of segregation were

called Jim Crow laws

Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War

came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy.

As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)

champion of poor whites

Political corruption during Reconstruction was

common in both North and South.

Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

demanded complete equality for African Americans

The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act.

The sharecropping system in the South following Reconstruction had the effect of

pushing tenant farmers and poor independent farmers into deep levels of debt to large landowners and merchants.

The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved

railroad construction kickbacks.

In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union.

After the collapse of the Reconstruction governments, the men who came to power in the "New South" were called

redeemers

During the age of industrialization, the South

remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural

In speaking of "redemption'' in a political sense, white Southerners of the Reconstruction era made reference to

ridding the South of the Reconstruction governments

Following the Civil War, most freed slaves

stayed in the South and worked as sharecroppers

At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners

still believed that their view of secession was correct and their cause was just.

The goals of the Ku Klux Klan included all of the following except

support the Force Acts of 1870 and 1871.

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

tcitizenship and civil rights to freed slaves

At the end of the Civil War, the vast majority of freed slaves found work as

tenant farmers

For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following except

that large numbers would move north.

President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because

the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the eccentric editor Horace Greeley as their candidate.

Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 prompted Congress to seek passage of

the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

the ascension of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency in return for assurances that what was left of Reconstruction in the South would be ended

All of the following statements concerning the Wade-Davis Bill are true EXCEPT

the bill provided for financial compensation to former slaves

The direct impact of the Civil War on the economy included all of the following EXCEPT

the emergence of the trust as a form of business organization

For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states' quick restoration to the Union was that

with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics.