Reconstruction Review Questions
Q30 Grimsley on Reconstruction - Modify Which of the following arguments most directly contradicts Grimsley's argument in the excerpt?
Many African Americans in the South felt politically empowered after the end of slavery.
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
Q13 Dred Scott decision - principle Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?
National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.
Q47 300 dollar law made us nobodies quote - situation The statement above refers to conscription during which conflict?
The Civil War
Q12 Dred Scott case - effect The decision in the excerpt held which of the following to be unconstitutional?
The Missouri Compromise
Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?
The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election.
At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:
The South's superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.
Which of the following factors contributed most directly to the end of slavery in the United States?
The Union victory in the Civil War led to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Q19 Evidence to refute Stevens claim Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to refute Stevens' claim in the excerpt that the Union had done little for formerly enslaved people by 1867?
The creation of schools by the Freedmen's Bureau for formerly enslaved people
Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
The election of 1860
Q25 Fugitive Slave proclamation - context The proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?
The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there
Q8 Douglass on Fourth of July - Effect In the 1850s ideas such as those expressed in the excerpt most directly contributed to
controversies over the expansion of slavery to new territories
The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of the
expansion of federal power
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it
halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North
In the first half of the nineteenth century, a major consequence of United States expansionism was
increased sectional discord, accompanied by the growing failure of compromise
All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measured EXCEPT the
massive exodus of former slaves from the South
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
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
Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was
possible British recognition of the Confederacy
In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with
protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves
The goal of the American Colonization society was to
return freed slaves to Africa
During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the
spread of sharecropping
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established
that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
the abolition of slavery throughout the United States
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in
the draft riots in New York City
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT
the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?
Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.
Q17 Evidence to modify Foner argument Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to modify Foner's main argument in the second excerpt?
After 1877 Democrats in the South legislated restrictions on the ability of African Americans to vote.
Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?
It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.
Q50 Excerpt evidence for development The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments?
Lincoln sought to avoid violence over the issues that divided the country.
Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A New England abolitionist
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
Q28 Greeley on Go West - pov The advice in the excerpt most directly reflects the influence of which of the following prevailing American ideas?
Manifest Destiny
Q20 Evidence to support Stevens claim Which of the following developments could best be used as evidence to support Stevens' claim about African American suffrage in the last paragraph of the excerpt?
Democrats dominated the Southern states after suppressing African American voting rights.
Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?
He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.
Q31 Growth of U.S. map - effect The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?
Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories
Q26 Fugitive Slave proclamation - effect The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?
Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery
The United States Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) represented a departure from earlier practices in which of the following ways?
It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
Q18 Rable and Foner argument difference Which of the following describes a difference between Rable's and Foner's arguments in the excerpts?
Rable asserts that violence in the South achieved its political goals during Reconstruction, whereas Foner asserts that this violence was suppressed at the time.
Q27 Gettysburg Address - effect After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the excerpt refers to?
Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states.
Q29 Grimsley on Reconstruction - Evidence Which of the following pieces of evidence best supports the argument in the excerpt?
Some groups of White Southerners prevented African Americans from voting.
The fourteenth amendment The provision above overturned the
Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford
Q9 Douglass on Fourth of July - Purpose Which of the following was a key purpose of the excerpt?
To condemn the conflict between American ideals and practices
The cartoon above is intended to express
a critique of Reconstruction