HISTORY 21

All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPT A. President Ulysses Grant. B. Secretary of War William Belknap. C. Vice President Schuyler Colfax. D. Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow. E. None of these answers is correct; all were involved in scandals

A

During Reconstruction, the Southern school system A. eventually reached 40 percent of all black children. B. did not allow blacks to be teachers. C. initially were not segregated. D. only offered primary instruction. E. barely reached any children of former slaves.

A

During Reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to A. Southern white Republicans. B. free black Southerners. C. Southerners who moved north. D. white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy. E. Northerners who moved south.

A

In the South, the crop-lien system A. encouraged the planting of cash crops. B. nearly disappeared during Reconstruction. C. led to crop diversification. D. was generally imposed on blacks, but not on white farmers. E. saw interest rates rise as high as 20 or 30 percent.

A

During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern A. transportation. B. education. C. industry. D. banking. E. agriculture.

B

The Tenure of Office Act A. gave the Senate the power to appoint members of the president's cabinet. B. was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority. C. was roundly condemned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. D. was both designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority and roundly condemned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. E. None of these answers is correct.

B

After the Civil War, most Southern black women A. did field work. B. played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women. C. engaged in income-producing activities. D. did not hold a job outside the home. E. still could not marry with any legal standing.

C

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical Republicans A. reduced the number of justices on the Court. B. established military tribunals in additional Southern states. C. proposed abolishing the Court. D. tempered many of their Reconstruction plans. E. ended military tribunals in favor of civil courts.

C

In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant A. was nominated by both the Republican and Democratic parties. B. won a huge victory. C. entered the White House with no political experience. D. relied on many of his former military advisors to join his administration. E. ran against Republican Reconstruction policies.

C

The Fourteenth Amendment A. ended slavery throughout the United States. B. gave voting rights to all male Americans. C. gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States. D. was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. E. was written in such a way as to appease the woman's suffrage movement.

C

After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from A. local banks. B. the federal government. C. Northern financial institutions. D. country stores. E. state governments.

D

Black sharecropping A. represented a continuation of the pre-Civil War gang-labor system. B. differed sharply from the tenant system. C. usually led to economic independence. D. was a very common occupation of former slaves. E. involved close white supervision, which recalled the days of slavery.

D

During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were A. white Southerners who moved to the North. B. freedmen who moved out of the South. C. former confederates who moved to the West. D. Northern white veterans who moved to the South. E. Northern politicians who took offices in Southern states.

D

In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction A. were rejected by every former Confederate state. B. replaced federal military commanders in the South with civilian leaders. C. granted forty acres of land to every adult male former slave. D. required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males. E. required that state legislatures ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

D

1. During Reconstruction, Southern African American officeholders A. filled as many as five seats in the United States Senate. B. were excluded from state constitutional conventions. C. did not serve in the federal Congress or Senate. D. rarely engaged in illegal political activities. E. underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.

E

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, A. a majority of Senators voted to acquit. B. Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote. C. every Senate Republican voted to convict. D. Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate. E. Johnson was spared conviction by one vote.

E

During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South, A. the Freedman's Bureau distributed millions of acres of land to freedmen. B. most plantations abandoned during the Civil War remained vacant. C. ownership by both whites and blacks increased. D. the federal government vigorously acted to confiscate land owned by former Confederates. E. ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased.

E

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he A. violated the Tenure of Office Act. B. offered political opposition to Radical Republicans. C. dismissed Edwin Stanton from office. D. both violated the Tenure of Office Act and dismissed Edwin Stanton from office. E. All these answers are correct.

E

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of A. slavery. B. citizenship. C. cruel and unusual punishment. D. income tax. E. suffrage.

E

The Panic of 1873 A. began after the Southern crop-lien system collapsed. B. saw Republicans call on Grant to go off the gold standard. C. saw President Grant favor putting more paper currency into circulation. D. began after revelations of corruption in the Grant administration. E. was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.

E