Reconstruction Quiz 9.21.15

Question 1

As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as

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A champion of poor whites

Question 2

Andrew Johnson was named Lincoln’s second-term Vice President because

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He would politically attract War Democrats and pro-Union southerners

Question 3

In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedman’s Bureau was

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A meddlesome agency that should be killed

Question 4

For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following EXCEPT

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That large numbers would move north

Question 5

In 1865, Southern

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Blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity

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In the postwar South

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The economy was utterly devastated

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The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that

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After brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868

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The greatest achievements of the Freedman’s Bureau were in

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Education

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The white South viewed the Freedman’s Bureau as

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A meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance

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Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War

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Came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy

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The “Exodusters” westward mass migration to Kansas finally faltered when

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Steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi

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At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners

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Still believed that their view of secession was correct

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President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction

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Aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met

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The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately re admitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was

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Tennessee

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The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

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Ensure a stable and subservient labor supply

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In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

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Rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union

Question 17

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was

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Johnson’s veto of the bill to extend the Freedman’s Bureau

Question 18

In the 1866 congressional elections

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Voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction

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That the Southern states were “conquered provinces” that had completely left the Union and were therefor at the mercy of Congress for readmission was the view of

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Congressional Republicans

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“Radical regimes”

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The radical legislatures passed much desirable legislation and introduce many badly needed reforms

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The Fourteenth Amendment

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Prohibited ex-Confederate leaders from holding public office

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The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was

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Johnson’s “class-based” policies that favored poor whites

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For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern state’s quick restoration to the Union was that

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With the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics

Question 24

The Black Codes provided for all of the following EXCEPT

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Voting by blacks

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To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that

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The arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War

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The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

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Citizenship and civil rights for freed slaves

Question 27

Which one of the following is LEAST related to the other three?

A. Freedmen
B. Scalawags
C. Ku Klux Klan
D. Carpetbaggers

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Ku Klux Klan

Question 28

All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Johnson EXCEPT

A. Concern about the person who would become President
B. Fears of creating a destabilizing period
C. Opposition to an using the Constitutional system of checks and balances
D. Johnson promised to step down as President

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D

Question 29

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

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Freed slaves must be granted the right to vote

Question 30

Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

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Intimidating blacks and undermining them politically

Question 31

During Restoration, African American women assumed new political roles which included all of the following except

A. Monitoring state constitutional conventions
B. Participating in political rallies
C. Voting
D. Participating in black church life

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C

Question 32

Many feminist leaders were especially disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it

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Specified for the first time in the Constitution that only makes could vote

Question 33

Radical congressional Reconstruction in the South ended when

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The last federal troops were removed in 1877

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Political corruption during Restoration was

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Common in both North and South

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Radical Reconstruction state governments

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Passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms

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The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

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Dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act

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A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was

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White resentment of the ability and success of black legislators

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Reconstruction might have been more successful if

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Thaddeus Stevens’s radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted

Question 39

In 1867 Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration’s greatest success in foreign relations when he

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Purchased Alaska from Russia

Question 40

The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated

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The deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress