Reconstruction

Question 1

Which statement best summarizes the beliefs of Booker T. Washington?

1) The best solution for African Americans was to return to Africa.
2) Social equality for African Americans would be easier to achieve than legal rights.
3) The way to dissolve the barriers of segregation and bring about an end to Jim Crow laws was by active, violent resistance.
4) The most immediate means for African Americans to achieve equality was to expand their opportunities for vocational education.

Answer 1

4) The most immediate means for African Americans to achieve equality was to expand their opportunities for vocational education.

Question 2

“Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen.” Which evidence best supports this statement

1) passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century
2) ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
3) refusal of Southern States to allow sharecropping
4) passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866

Answer 2

1) passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century

Question 3

Which statement about the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois is most accurate?

1) They differed as to the best way that African Americans could effectively achieve equality.
2) Both demanded programs that would provide for immediate social equality.
3) Both believed that vocational training would provide the most important kind of education for African Americans.
4) Neither wanted the Federal Government to play a major role in protecting the civil rights of African Americans.

Answer 3

1) They differed as to the best way that African Americans could effectively achieve equality.

Question 4

The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by

1) the Federal Government to improve the status of African Americans and Native American Indians
2) state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans
3) states to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan
4) the Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans

Answer 4

state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans

Question 5

The 14th amendment provides that no “state [shall] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” A direct result of this amendment was that

1) the process of amending the Constitution became slower and more complex
2) the guarantees in the Bill of Rights were applied to state actions
3) every citizen gained an absolute right to freedom of speech and assembly
4) the power of the Federal Government was sharply reduced

Answer 5

2) the guarantees in the Bill of Rights were applied to state actions

Question 6

After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because

1) the amendments were not intended to solve their problems
2) many African Americans distrusted the Federal Government
3) Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws
4) poor communications kept people from learning about their legal rights

Answer 6

Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws

Question 7

Poll taxes and grandfather clauses were devices used to

1) deny African Americans the right to vote
2) extend suffrage to women and 18-year-old citizens
3) raise money for political campaigns
4) prevent immigrants from becoming citizens

Answer 7

1) deny African Americans the right to vote

Question 8

n their plans for Reconstruction, both President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson sought to

1) punish the South for starting the Civil War
2) force the Southern States to pay reparations to the Federal Government
3) allow the Southern States to reenter the nation as quickly as possible
4) establish the Republican Party as the only political party in the South

Answer 8

allow the Southern States to reenter the nation as quickly as possible

Question 9

W.E.B. Du Bois believed that African Americans should 1) 1)attempt to gain equality in the United States by
2) setting up a separate nation within the United States
entering vocational training programs in separate schools
3) demanding full and immediate participation in American society
4) taking over the leadership of the two major political parties

Answer 9

demanding full and immediate participation in American society

Question 10

A major reason the Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan was that his plan

1) demanded payments from the South that would have damaged its economy
2) postponed the readmission of Southern States into the Union for many years
3) granted too many rights to formerly enslaved persons
4) offered amnesty to nearly all Confederates who would swear allegiance to the United States

Answer 10

offered amnesty to nearly all Confederates who would swear allegiance to the United States