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.