8: APUSH Chapters 21 & 22

In 1865, a number of southern states passed Black Codes in order to A) control movement and provide a stable workplace for the plantations B) keep the two races segregated in public places C) embarrass President Johnson's administration D) convince the North that the South could handle its own problems

A

One of the long-term political consequences of northern victory was A) an end of threats of nullification and succession B) dominance of the Republican party in the South C) continuing sectional conflict over the issue of slavery D) a balance of power in Congress between the North and South E) suspension of the writ of habeas corpus

A

The Union's strategy for the Civil War was to do all of the following EXCEPT A) pressure the Confederation to negotiate a compromise peace B) divide the Confederacy by gaining control of the Mississippi River C) blockade the Confederate coastline D) capture Richmond

A

The ______ were LEAST likely to hold powerful positions in Radical Reconstruction governments in the South A) freedman B) Republicans C) carpetbaggers D) scalawags

A

The following question is based off of the first two paragraphs in this passage: http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1851-1875/charles-sumner-opinion-on-the-trial-of-andrew-johnson-1868.php The conflict described in this passage most directly revealed A) the deep division that persisted over the question of civil rights for former slaves B) the persistence of secessionist philosophies in the south C) the violence of Southern resistance to Reconstruction D) the existence of broad political consensus with respect to Reconstruction

A

The following question is based off of the first two paragraphs in this passage: http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1851-1875/charles-sumner-opinion-on-the-trial-of-andrew-johnson-1868.php Which of the following was a long-term result of the political situation described in the excerpt? A) Presidential power was weakened for the next several years B) Southerners controlled Congress for the next three decades C) The Republican party was weakened D) Presidential impeachments occurred several times over the next four decades

A

All of the following were factors in the defeat of the South in 1865 EXCEPT A) shortages caused by the Union's naval blockade B) slave uprisings against Southern plantations C) Grant's war of attrition in Virginia D) Sherman's march through Georgia E) the Confederacy's failure to obtain foreign intervention

B

During the period of Reconstruction, most of the states of the former Confederacy, in order to regain admission to the Union, were required to A) grant blacks all the civil rights that Northern states had granted them before the war B) ratify the Fourteenth Amendment C) provide integrated public schools D) ratify the Sixteenth Amendment E) provide free land and farming utensils for the recently freed slaves

B

President Andrew Johnson did NOT veto the A) Civil Rights Act of 1866 B) Wade-Davis Bill C) Freedmen's Bureau Bill D) Reconstruction Act

B

President Lincoln eventually concluded that General George McClellan was A) careless B) too cautious C) a poor administrator D) incapable of disciplining troops

B

The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it A) represented the Unions' deepest thrust into Southern territory B) forestalled the possibility of European intervention C) resulted in the border states joining the Confederacy D) marked the first use of black troops by the Union army E) confirmed George McClellan's status as the leading Union general

B

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed A) land ownership for former slaves B) U.S. citizenship for former slaves C) freedom to slaves D) former slaves the right to vote

B

The West Point graduate and Mexican War veteran who was offered command of all Union forces when the Civil War erupted was A) Ulysses S. Grant B) Robert E. Lee C) William Tecumseh Sherman D) Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

B

The event in the western theater during the Civil War that had the effect of splitting the Confederacy in half was the A) Battle of the Wilderness B) Capture of Vicksburg C) Battle of Antietam D) Battle of Gettysburg E) Siege of Petersburg

B

The following question is based off of the following quote: With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. The above quotation from a speech expresses the view of the post-Civil War period held and initiated by A) Thaddeus stevens B) Abraham Lincoln C) Jefferson Davis D) Stonewall Jackson E) Horace Greeley

B

The only Southern state that ratified the 14th Amendment when it was created was A) Georgia B) Tennessee C) Mississippi D) Arkansas

B

The shift in Northern strategy to fighting a total war became clear when A) Congress passed a draft law B) Sherman marched through Georgia C) the Union army began using black troops D) McClellan's strategy failed

B

All of the following were innovations to warfare during the Civil War EXCEPT A) digging trenches B) the introduction of the rifle C) the use of the musket D) the use of railroads as troop transports

C

Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided conviction of impeachment charges because A) of his earlier cooperative attitude toward Congress B) Radical Republicans were beginning to support his policies C) some republicans feared that removal would set a bad precedent for using impeachment as a political wagon against the Presidency D) only a minority of the Senate voted to convict

C

The Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to slaves A) in union territories B) if they agreed to stay in the south C) in Confederate-held states and territories D) in the Union border states

C

The battle that is considered to be the turning point of the Civil War and the last chance at a military victory by the Confederacy is A) Antietam B) Shiloh C) Gettysburg D) Chattanooga E) Chickamaugua

C

The following question is based off of the first two paragraphs in this passage: http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1851-1875/charles-sumner-opinion-on-the-trial-of-andrew-johnson-1868.php The point of view of this excerpt would most likely have found support among A) Southerners B) Democrats C) Radical Republicans D) The Populist Party

C

What is the proper sequence of these battles: (A) Gettysburg, (B) Shiloh, (C) First Bull Run, (D) Antietam A) A, B, C, D B) B, C, D, A C) C, B, D, A D) D, A, B, C

C

After the Emancipation Proclamation, when blacks enlisted in the Union Army they were A) generally poor combat soldiers B) not allowed to engage in combat C) allowed to elect their own commanders D) segregated into black units

D

At Shiloh, Grant learned that Northern victory in the Civil War could be won A) in a single, decisive battle B) with little bloodshed C) by following West Point rules D) only in a war of exhaustion

D

Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation on grounds of A) economic advantage B) natural rights C) moral imperatives D) military necessity

D

The Republican party in Congress who wanted to punish white Southerners and protect former slaves were the A) Avengers B) Reformers C) Moderates D) Radicals

D

The economic impact of the Civil War included all of the following EXCEPT A) an increasing number of woman in the labor force B) widespread destruction of property in the South C) creation of a national banking system in the North D) reduced rate of industrial production in the North E) runaway inflation in the South

D

The key to control of the Mississippi River, captured by Grant on July 4, 1863 was A) Port Hudson B) New Orleans C) Fort Henry D) Vicksburg

D

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to A) gain the vote for the freed slave B) provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave C) get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South D) feed, adjust, and educate the former slaves, thus aiding the adjustment to freedom E) work against the Black Codes

D

After the collapse of the Reconstruction governments, the men who came to power in the "New South" were called A) carpetbaggers B) scalawags C) copperheads D) freedmen E) redeemers

E

In issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, one of Lincoln's goals was to A) gain the active aid of Britain and France in restoring the Union B) stir up enthusiasm for the war in such border states as Maryland and Kentucky C) please the Radicals in the North by abolishing slavery in areas of the South already under control of Union armies D) please Russia, one of the Union's few overseas friends, where the serfs had been emancipated the previous year E) keep Britain and France from intervening on the side of the Confederacy

E

In speaking of "scalawags," white Southerners of the Reconstruction era made reference to A) former slaves who had risen to high positions within the Reconstruction governments of the Southern states B) Northerners who had come south to take high positions within the Reconstruction governments of the Southern states C) the U.S. Army generals who served as military governors in the South D) the Radical Republicans in Congress who imposed Reconstruction regimes on the South E) Southerners who supported or participated in the Reconstruction regimes

E

The purpose of Lincoln's and Johnson's plan for Reconstruction was to A) punish the South for causing the Civil War B) give Congress the final authority in the process of Reconstruction C) give equal voting rights for both white and black males in the South D) provide financial aid to rebuild the South E) encourage rapid readmission of ex-Confederate states into the Union

E