Chapter 15 MC (pg 412 - 425)

32. Schuyler Colfax, Grant's vice president, A. was involved in a stock-fixing scandal. B. was assassinated by a disgruntled former plantation owner. C. opposed almost every one of Grant's policies. D. was fired by Grant for incompetence. E. None of these answers is correct.

A

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

A

36. The "redeemed" governments of the South A. were so named when Democrats took back control of the government. B. suppressed the activities of white supremacists. C. saw the Republican Party win control of Southern state governments. D. saw an end to occupation by federal troops, and suppressed the activities of white supremacists. E. All these answers are correct.

A

37. Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871 A. was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South. B. was designed to support the Black Codes. C. was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant. D. gave legal protection to the Ku Klux Klan. E. allowed white Southerners to maintain a police state.

A

42. After Reconstruction, political power under southern "Redeemers" A. was very often restricted and conservative. B. typically relied on raising taxes for its funding. C. increased state services for the poor. D. ignored the interests of industrialists. E. helped consolidate the "Solid South" for the Republican Party.

A

44. In the South during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, A. textile manufacturing increased ninefold. B. southerners became more dependent on agriculture than ever. C. per capita income fell sharply. D. most industrial growth came from coal mining. E. the average income reached 80 percent of that in the North.

A

50. Jim Crow laws A. imposed a system of state-supported segregation. B. attacked the problem of lynching. C. led immediately to a dramatic black exodus from the South. D. challenged white Redeemer rule in the South. E. did not apply to public parks, beaches, or picnic areas.

A

35. The Alabama claims A. saw the United States refuse to pay Alabama for losses incurred during the Civil War. B. involved complaints by the United States against England. C. ended an experiment in black landownership. D. marked a renewed effort in asserting the rights of states over federal authority. E. were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction.

B

40. As president, Rutherford B. Hayes A. refused to make political compromises with Democrats. B. promised to serve only one term. C. helped to unify Republicans and Democrats. D. called for a modest expansion of Reconstruction programs. E. promised to take the South back from the "Redeemers."

B

46. Among other ideas, Booker T. Washington A. rejected the ideology of the "New South creed." B. favored industrial over classical education. C. called on the federal government to offer job training for blacks. D. proposed an exodus of blacks from the South to the West. E. argued that blacks spent too much time trying to impress the white middle class.

B

31. In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant A. was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. 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

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

C

43. Advocates of the "New South" A. opposed using northern capital. B. discouraged white women from working outside of the home. C. promoted southern industry and railroad development. D. challenged the assumptions of white supremacy. E. in fact advocated a return to the plantation system of the antebellum South.

C

48. The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that A. communities could have schools for whites only if there were no schools for blacks. B. the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional. C. racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations." D. private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination. E. segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.

C

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

D

33. 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

38. Northern commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of A. the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. B. the growing political strength of Democrats. C. the Panic of 1873. D. perceptions of black-and-carpetbag misgovernment in the South. E. All these answers are correct.

E

41. Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate? A. Given the context within which Americans of the 1860s and 1870s were working, it is surprising that Reconstruction did so little. B. A lack of respect for private property and free enterprise prevented any real assault on economic privilege in the South. C. The president and his party proved uninterested in supporting even modest acceptance of African American rights. D. The president and his party had hoped to build up a "new Democratic" organization in the South. E. Many white Southern leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in the South but could not publicly support them.

E

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

E

47. In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington A. called for political and civil rights for black Americans. B. criticized the federal government for abandoning southern blacks. C. argued that blacks should honor their African forebears. D. stated that blacks should give up in seeking equality with whites. E. called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.

E

49. Grandfather laws established that A. African Americans could only vote if they could prove that they had been in the United States for at least two generations. 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 could vote if they met certain property qualifications. E. men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.

E

51. By the 1890s, voting percentages in the South had A. increased for blacks only. B. increased for whites only. C. declined for blacks only. D. increased for whites and declined for blacks. E. decreased for both whites and blacks.

E