HY 103 US History
•Which of the following was not a reason Americans disapproved of President Grant? Members of his administration were corrupt. He ignored established party members in favor of reform-minded politicians. He had no formal political experience. He continued to embrace policies of Radical Reconstruction.
He ignored established party members in favor of reform-minded politicians.
•During Reconstruction, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from Multiple choice question. the federal government. state governments. local banks. country stores.
country stores.
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•Select all that apply How did African American family life change after the Civil War? Multiple select question. African Americans rushed to have their marriages legalized and blessed by the church. Gender roles were reversed, and black women were more likely than men to work outside the home. African Americans left plantations to search for lost relatives and reunite families. African Americans remained with their adoptive families rather than seeking out blood relatives. Many women and children stopped working in the fields.
•African Americans rushed to have their marriages legalized and blessed by the church •African Americans left plantations to search for lost relatives and reunite families. •Many women and children stopped working in the fields.
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Southern states enacted laws known as the _____ _____ to maintain white southerners' power over former slaves.
•Black Codes
Select all that apply Which of the following correctly describe events of the conspiracy of April 1865? •Booth was shot and killed by Union troops. •President Lincoln was wounded and died after a month of fighting for his life. •An associate of Booth's abandoned a plan to murder the vice president. •Secretary of State William Seward was shot and killed by one of Booth's associates.
•Booth was shot and killed by Union troops. •An associate of Booth's abandoned a plan to murder the vice president.
•The ______ Amendment guarantees citizenship to everyone born in the United States. •Fourteenth •First •Tenth •Nineteenth
•Fourteenth
•Which of the following best characterizes efforts to reform land ownership in the South during Reconstruction? Multiple choice question. It somewhat successfully provided most former slaves with 40-acre plots in the South. It was the biggest accomplishment of the Reconstruction governments. It failed. It resulted in a drastic redistribution of land to blacks and poor Southerners.
•It failed
•At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, •a majority of senators voted to acquit. •every Senate Republican voted to convict. •Johnson was spared conviction by one vote. •Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.
•Johnson was spared conviction by one vote.
Which of the following accurately describes conditions for Southern blacks in the aftermath of the Civil War? •Almost all plantation slaves chose to stay and work with their former masters. •Most of the 3.5 million emerging from bondage had nowhere to go. •Travel was made more difficult because they also had to transport all the possessions former masters refused to hold for them. •Conditions were markedly better for Southern blacks than for Southern whites.
•Most of the 3.5 million emerging from bondage had nowhere to go.
•Which of the following groups were key supporters of educational reform in the South during Reconstruction? Northern philanthropic organizations black Southerners the Freedmen's Bureau former plantation owners white Southern women
•Northern philanthropic organizations •black Southerners •the Freedmen's Bureau
The process by which the federal government, between 1865 and 1877, controlled the former Confederate states and set the conditions for their readmission to the Union was called •Reconstruction. •Redemption. •Radical Republicanism. •the Black Codes.
•Reconstruction.
•Which state accepted the offer of the Radical Republicans to readmit to the Union any state whose legislature ratified the Fourteenth Amendment? •Alabama •Tennessee •Mississippi •Kentucky
•Tennessee
Select all that apply •Why did large-scale efforts to redistribute land in the South ultimately fail? •Few African Americans were interested in owning land. •New African American landowners left land fallow in protest. •The federal government's authority to confiscate property came into question. •President Johnson supported the rights of white landowners.
•The federal government's authority to confiscate property came into question. •President Johnson supported the rights of white landowners.
How did many former slaves respond to the end of the Civil War? •They tended to stay with their former masters in hopes of a return to slavery. •They were offered free passage back to Africa, but they refused it. •They left plantations, looking for a better life elsewhere. •About 80 percent of them refused to leave their former owners' plantations.
•They left plantations, looking for a better life elsewhere.
•Which of the following is true of African American officeholders in the South during Reconstruction? •Their percentage was greater than the percentage of blacks in the Southern population. •African Americans were not allowed to serve in government during Reconstruction. •They were underrepresentative of the black population. •African Americans served in state government but not federal legislatures.
•They were underrepresentative of the black population.
Select all that apply Which of the following describe conditions for white Southerners in the aftermath of the Civil War? •Thousands that had fought for the Confederacy had returned wounded or sick. •Many now owed money and property to their former slaves. •Some faced starvation and homelessness. •Many had almost no personal property.
•Thousands that had fought for the Confederacy had returned wounded or sick. •Some faced starvation and homelessness. •Many had almost no personal property.
Who was allowed to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment? •all property-owning male citizens regardless of color •all adult citizens •all literate, property-owning male citizens regardless of color v•all male citizens regardless of colorall male citizens regardless of color
•all male citizens regardless of color
•The largest group of Republicans in the South during Reconstruction were Multiple choice question. black freedmen. carpetbaggers. scalawags. military commanders.
•black freedmen.
•During Grant's second term, to many in the general public, "Grantism" became synonymous with Multiple choice question. corruption. prosperity. honesty. power.
•corruption
In the 1860s, the Black Codes were •enacted by the federal government to ensure ex-slaves certain civil rights. •enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights. •passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states. •designed to limit the political power and mobility of black Americans.
•designed to limit the political power and mobility of black Americans.
•The most important accomplishment of the Reconstruction governments was a dramatic improvement in •industry. •transportation. •education. •banking.
•education
Which of the following was not among the reactions of Northerners to Lincoln's assassination? •immediately revering him as a martyr •embracing Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction and a quick peace with the South •hysteria that the murder was part of a great conspiracy •concern that unrepentant leaders of the defeated South had masterminded the murder
•embracing Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction and a quick peace with the South
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, American citizens received •equal protection of state and federal laws. •suffrage restrictions for some male citizens. •voting rights for women. •requirements and privileges separated by race.
•equal protection of state and federal laws.
Select all that apply •Many scalawags, or Southern white Republicans, also could be classified as •veterans of the Confederate army. •slaveholders. •former Whigs. •farmers from remote areas.
•former Whigs. •farmers from remote areas.
Andrew Johnson's "Restoration" plan required Southern states to do all of the following except •repudiate war debts. •revoke secession ordinances. •grant blacks the right to vote. •abolish slavery.
•grant blacks the right to vote.
Most white Southerners expected the postwar South would •have local autonomy without federal government interference. •ignore the Thirteenth Amendment and continue holding slaves. •crumble as Northerners seized and redistributed the land. •allow whites to live and work as equals with former slaves.
•have local autonomy without federal government interference.
In 1865, Southern whites defined freedom as ______, and Southern blacks defined freedom as ______. •economic opportunity; local control •industrialization of the South; the ability to stay where they grew up •being welcomed back into the Union; money from the Freedmen's Bureau •local and regional autonomy; independence from white control
•local and regional autonomy; independence from white control
Select all that apply •The crop-lien system of credit was detrimental to which groups? poor whites farmers African Americans merchants
•poor whites •farmers •African Americans
In most respects Andrew Johnson's Restoration •was the opposite of Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan. •repudiated the Wade-Davis Bill. •resembled the Wade-Davis Bill. •angered both moderate and conservative Republicans.
•resembled the Wade-Davis Bill.
•The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of •slavery. •suffrage. •income tax. •citizenship.
•suffrage
Reconstruction was politically controlled by •Conservative Republicans, who refused to negotiate with anyone opposed to their ideas. •three major groups of Republicans that were divided in their approach to the issue. •President Lincoln, who would not compromise on his proposals. •Southern Democrats, who bristled at its terms.
•three major groups of Republicans that were divided in their approach to the issue
Radicals in the House led the charge to impeach President Johnson after he •fell off stage drunk while giving a campaign speech. •violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. •came under the influence of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner. •authorized federal troops to occupy parts of the reconstructed South.
•violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
