APUSH quiz
Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the "Redeemer" administrations?
Establishment of a public school system
"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 Civil War
UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS BY PROFESSION Profession Union Confederacy Farmers 47.5% 61.5% Skilled laborers 25.1% 14.1% Unskilled laborers 15.9% 8.5% White-collar workers 5.1% 7.0% Professionals 3.2% 5.2% Miscellaneous 3.2% 3.7% UNION AND CONFEDERATE MILITARIES Military Membership Union Confederacy Total enlistment 2,672,341 1,227,890 Casualties 642,427 483,026 The data in the first table most directly indicate which of the following about the professions of soldiers in the Civil War?
The Confederacy relied more heavily on agricultural workers to fill its armies than did the Union.
Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?
The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election.
UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS BY PROFESSION Profession Union Confederacy Farmers 47.5% 61.5% Skilled laborers 25.1% 14.1% Unskilled laborers 15.9% 8.5% White-collar workers 5.1% 7.0% Professionals 3.2% 5.2% Miscellaneous 3.2% 3.7% UNION AND CONFEDERATE MILITARIES Military Membership Union Confederacy Total enlistment 2,672,341 1,227,890 Casualties 642,427 483,026 The data in the tables most likely indicate which of the following?
The Union had a larger and more diverse population of workers to enlist from than did the Confederacy.
Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to refute Stevens' claim in the excerpt that the Union had done little for formerly enslaved people by 1867?
The creation of schools by the Freedmen's Bureau for formerly enslaved people
Which of the following best characterizes the "sectional reunion" Blight describes?
The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves.
Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War?
The political and legal status of the former Confederate states
(its whites and blacks on each side with a man standing in between them preventing the whites from attacking the blacks, represents the Freedmen's Bureau) The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of the
expansion of federal power
After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over
legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males
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
In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with
protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
(its whites and blacks on each side with a man standing in between them preventing the whites from attacking the blacks, represents the Freedmen's Bureau) The image most strongly supports the argument that Reconstruction
temporarily altered race relations in the South
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because
there were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions
Which of the following describes a difference between Rable's and Foner's arguments in the excerpts?
Rable asserts that violence in the South achieved its political goals during Reconstruction, whereas Foner asserts that this violence was suppressed at the time.
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
In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting
African Americans' voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment
Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to modify Foner's main argument in the second excerpt?
After 1877 Democrats in the South legislated restrictions on the ability of African Americans to vote.
Which of the following developments could best be used as evidence to support Stevens' claim about African American suffrage in the last paragraph of the excerpt?
Democrats dominated the Southern states after suppressing African American voting rights.
The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments?
Lincoln sought to avoid violence over the issues that divided the country.
Based on their arguments in the excerpts, both Rable and Foner would most likely agree with which of the following claims?
Southern resistance hindered Reconstruction.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The provision above overturned the:
Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford
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
On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in
experienced military leadership
During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the
granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods
The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it
halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North
During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the
spread of sharecropping
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in
the draft riots in New York City
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was
possible British recognition of the Confederacy
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to
preserve the Union
At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:
The South's superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established
that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS BY PROFESSION Profession Union Confederacy Farmers 47.5% 61.5% Skilled laborers 25.1% 14.1% Unskilled laborers 15.9% 8.5% White-collar workers 5.1% 7.0% Professionals 3.2% 5.2% Miscellaneous 3.2% 3.7% UNION AND CONFEDERATE MILITARIES Military Membership Union Confederacy Total enlistment 2,672,341 1,227,890 Casualties 642,427 483,026 The data in the tables indicate which of the following?
Confederate armies lost a greater proportion of its soldiers than did the Union.
Which of the following best explains the reason for the reconciliation described by Blight?
Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve.
Which of the following best describes the situation of freedom in the decade following the Civil War?
The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.
During Reconstruction, which of following was a change that took place in the South?
African Americans were able to exercise political rights.
Which of the following is a similarity between Rable's and Foner's arguments in the excerpts?
Both focus on many Southerners' opposition to racial equality.
"Whether you are or are not, entitled to all the rights of citizenship in this country has long been a matter of dispute to your prejudice. By enlisting in the service of your country at this trial hour, and upholding the National Flag, you stop the mouths of [cynics] and win applause even from the iron lips of ingratitude. Enlist and you make this your country in common with all other men born in the country or out of it. . . . He who fights the battles of America may claim America as his country—and have that claim respected. Thus in defending your country now against rebels and traitors you are defending your own liberty, honor, manhood and self-respect. . . . . . . [H]istory shall record the names of heroes and martyrs who bravely answered the call of patriotism and Liberty—against traitors, thieves and assassins—let it not be said that in the long list of glory, composed of men of all nations—there appears the name of no colored man." Frederick Douglass, excerpt from an editorial, April 1863 Douglass' rhetoric in the excerpt was most likely interpreted as promoting which of the following?
His advocacy for African American equal rights
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863 After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the excerpt refers to?
Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
"Whether you are or are not, entitled to all the rights of citizenship in this country has long been a matter of dispute to your prejudice. By enlisting in the service of your country at this trial hour, and upholding the National Flag, you stop the mouths of [cynics] and win applause even from the iron lips of ingratitude. Enlist and you make this your country in common with all other men born in the country or out of it. . . . He who fights the battles of America may claim America as his country—and have that claim respected. Thus in defending your country now against rebels and traitors you are defending your own liberty, honor, manhood and self-respect. . . . . . . [H]istory shall record the names of heroes and martyrs who bravely answered the call of patriotism and Liberty—against traitors, thieves and assassins—let it not be said that in the long list of glory, composed of men of all nations—there appears the name of no colored man." Frederick Douglass, excerpt from an editorial, April 1863 Which of the following best explains Douglass' point of view in the excerpt?
Shared sacrifice would help advance African American men's claims to United States citizenship.
Whether you are or are not, entitled to all the rights of citizenship in this country has long been a matter of dispute to your prejudice. By enlisting in the service of your country at this trial hour, and upholding the National Flag, you stop the mouths of [cynics] and win applause even from the iron lips of ingratitude. Enlist and you make this your country in common with all other men born in the country or out of it. . . . He who fights the battles of America may claim America as his country—and have that claim respected. Thus in defending your country now against rebels and traitors you are defending your own liberty, honor, manhood and self-respect. . . . . . . [H]istory shall record the names of heroes and martyrs who bravely answered the call of patriotism and Liberty—against traitors, thieves and assassins—let it not be said that in the long list of glory, composed of men of all nations—there appears the name of no colored man." Frederick Douglass, excerpt from an editorial, April 1863 Ideas expressed by Douglass in the excerpt were most likely interpreted as supporting which of the following arguments?
The war was no longer just about preserving the union of the states.
(it's the one we saw in class with the woman representing the "strong south" is in chains by military people and carrying the "carpet bag") The cartoon above is intended to express
a critique of Reconstruction
