Chapter 15

10) In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as A) an end to slavery and the acquisition of legal rights and opportunities that would allow them to live as did whites. B) the ability to return to their ancestral homelands. C) an end to slavery. D) immediate representation in the U.S. Congress. E) All these answers are correct.

A) an end to slavery and the acquisition of legal rights and opportunities that would allow them to live as did whites.

6) As Republicans planned for Reconstruction, A) President Lincoln suggested that no conditions be put on the former Confederate states. B) Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners. C) Moderates believed the South should be readmitted without any concessions on black rights. D) Conservatives sought many conditions to readmit the former Confederate states. E) they were hampered by the fact that no thought had been given to the task until the end of the war.

B) Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.

3) During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agriculture A) saw a deceleration of the processes begun in the postwar years. B) saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system. C) saw a decline in absentee ownership of farmland. D) saw a significant diversification of its crops. E) regained the profitability it had prior to the Civil War.

B) saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.

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

C) encouraged the planting of cash crops.

1) In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking A) the loss of black voting rights. B) restrictions on black education. C) the crime of lynching. D) the legality of segregation. E) the arguments of Booker T. Washington.

C) the crime of lynching.

8) Grandfather laws established that A) men could vote if they met certain property qualifications. B) only African Americans above age fifty could vote. C) certain levels of property holdings could exempt a potential voter from a literacy test. D) men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began. E) African Americans could only vote if they could prove that they had been in the United States for at least two generations.

D) men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.

9) During Reconstruction, the Southern school system A) only offered primary instruction. B) initially were not segregated. C) barely reached any children of former slaves. D) reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876. E) did not allow blacks to be teachers.

D) reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876.

7) During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired A) Guam. B) Hawaii. C) Puerto Rico. D) the Virgin Islands. E) Alaska.

E) Alaska.

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

E) All these answers are correct.

5) The elections of 1876 saw A) the governor of New York become president. B) Ulysses Grant make an unsuccessful bid for an unprecedented third term. C) the Supreme Court decide the presidential election. D) a Democrat become president for the first time since the Civil War. E) the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.

E) the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.