Chapter 16 Quiz Questions

Question 1

In the Reconstruction South, African-Americans were an influential voice in

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implementing the reforms of the Republican Party.

Question 2

The Tenure of Office Act attempted to

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weaken the powers of the president.

Question 3

In the early years of Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau was successful at

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reducing black illiteracy by roughly 20 percent.

Question 4

After the Civil War, many Southern blacks

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migrated to Southern cities.

Question 5

The significant outcome of the presidential election of 1876 was that it

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marked an end of the federal government’s commitment to Reconstruction reforms.

Question 6

The Fifteenth Amendment

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guaranteed the right of American men to vote.

Question 7

How was the disputed election of 1876 settled and decided?

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by the Compromise of 1877.

Question 8

Southern Democrats who called their victories in the elections of 1876 “Redemption,” portrayed themselves as the

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saviors of the South from the injustices of Republican rule.

Question 9

What is the correct order of presidential succession?

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Johnson, Grant, Hayes

Question 10

Which statement about black voters in the South during Reconstruction is not true?

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The Democratic Party benefited from the increase in black voters.

Question 11

The Southern Homestead Act

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gave black people preferential access to public lands in five Southern states.

Question 12

General Sherman’s Field Order No. 15 gave hope to blacks because it

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set aside plots of Southern land for distribution.

Question 13

“Scientific racism” was characterized in the 1870s by all of the following ideas except

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the belief that blacks and immigrants controlled both houses of the U.S. Congress.

Question 14

All of the following statements about sharecropping are true except

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only blacks were relegated to existence as sharecroppers.

Question 15

Legacies of Reconstruction in the South included all of the following except

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breaking the rigid social hierarchy that existed among Southern whites.

Question 16

Southern Democrats realized they could regain their dominance of local power by

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manipulating racial tensions.

Question 17

White southerners used the term “carpetbaggers” to describe

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powerful Northerners who lived in the South.

Question 18

Which statement about the Fourteenth Amendment is not true?

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It guaranteed all males the right to vote.

Question 19

Many Southerners refused to accept their defeat as divine judgment and believed that God had spared the South for a greater purpose; they came to view the war as

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the Lost Cause.

Question 20

In the post-Reconstruction period

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blacks in the South were relegated to second-class citizenship.