Question 1

Identify three important provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Question 2

Explain the reason for the appointment of a special presidential electoral commission in 1877 and state the outcome of its vote. Identify the effect of the informal understanding known as the Compromise of 1877 on Reconstruction.

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Question 3

Match the term with the definition.
-Congressional act of March 1867 that initiated military rule of the South. Congressional reconstruction divided the ten unreconstructed Confederate states into five military districts, each under the direction of a Union general. It also established the procedure by which unreconstructed states could reenter the Union.

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A)  black codes
B)  carpetbagger
C)  Civil Rights Act of 1866
D)  Compromise of 1877
E)  Fifteenth AmendmentF) Fourteenth AmendmentG) Freedmen's BureauH) Ku Klux KlanI) Military Reconstruction ActJ) RedeemersK) scalawagL) sharecroppingM) D) and G)
N) H) and J)

Question 4

To challenge Grant's reelection campaign in 1872, both the Liberty party and the Democratic party endorsed

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A)   Horatio Seymour.
B)   Schuyler Colfax.
C)   James A. Garfield.
D)   Horace Greeley.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 5

What happened to the whites who killed eighty-one blacks during the Colfax massacre?

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A)   African Americans broke them out of jail and killed them.
B)   They received lifetime prison sentences.
C)   They went free because nobody would prosecute them.
D)   The Supreme Court found them guilty on all charges.E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 6

Who made up the majority of the Republican party in the South in the late 1800s?

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A)   Scalawags
B)   Owners of small businesses
C)   Carpetbaggers
D)   African AmericansE) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 7

How influential were African American politicians during the period southern whites derisively called "Negro domination"?

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A)   Only six percent of southerners in Congress during Reconstruction were black.
B)   Blacks held a majority in over half the state legislatures for a short time.
C)   African Americans held no elected office during Reconstruction.
D)   Only states with black majorities elected blacks to office.E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 8

When the South returned to the Union, it did so as a junior partner; however, southerners did have a distinct impact on the various Reconstruction plans implemented after the war. Identify the viewpoints of white southerners during this time period and explain how and why they were able to influence the transition in the South from slavery to freedom. Include their opinions about the behavior of ex-slaves and the impact of Reconstruction on their way of life.

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Some southern whites joined the Republic...

Question 9

Although Johnson had left the Democratic party before becoming president, he seemed more a Democrat than a Republican as president because he

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A)   advocated limitations on federal power.
B)   vetoed the Wade-Davis bill and supported federal subsidies.
C)   refused to support any aspect of Lincoln's reconstruction plan.
D)   attempted to empower the Freedmen's Bureau.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

What happened to most sharecroppers once they borrowed goods on a crop lien?

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A)   They made enough money to buy their own land.
B)   They paid back their debt within a year.
C)   They ended up in a cycle of debt.
D)   They began growing food rather than cotton.E) B) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 11

Why did President Johnson's quick reconstruction of ex-Confederate states shock reformers?

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A)   His lenient terms for reconstruction belied his earlier states' rights stance.
B)   He had long expressed a desire to destroy the southern planter aristocracy.
C)   His harsh terms for reconstruction belied his earlier promises of leniency.
D)   He failed to follow through on his promise to grant the freedmen voting rights.E) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 12

How did passage of the Fifteenth Amendment shape future Republican policy?

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A)   It allowed Republicans to ignore black rights in the future.
B)   It encouraged Republicans to take on southern labor policies.
C)   The Republican party turned to land redistribution as its new central issue.
D)   It ensured that the Republicans would become a primarily southern political party.E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

Question 13

Union general Carl Schurz believed that to protect themselves from white oppression, newly freed blacks would need

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A)   voting rights.
B)   access to an unbiased judicial system.
C)   employment contracts.
D)   social equality.E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 14

The Fifteenth Amendment

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A)   prohibited the states from infringing on the rights of citizens.
B)   defined U.S. citizenship.
C)   extended black male suffrage to the entire nation.
D)   outlawed slavery.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 15

Match the term with the definition.
-Constitutional amendment passed in 1866 that made all native-born or naturalized persons U.S. citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens. The amendment hoped to provide guarantee of equality before the law for black citizens.

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A)  black codes
B)  carpetbagger
C)  Civil Rights Act of 1866
D)  Compromise of 1877
E)  Fifteenth AmendmentF) Fourteenth AmendmentG) Freedmen's BureauH) Ku Klux KlanI) Military Reconstruction ActJ) RedeemersK) scalawagL) sharecroppingM) B) and E)
N) B) and D)

Question 16

The Ku Klux Klan developed into a paramilitary organization, but it began as

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A)   a group of yeoman farmers who were angry about Radical Reconstruction.
B)   a fraternity in Tennessee that wanted to intimidate blacks.
C)   an elitist order that wanted to destroy the Republican party by lynching blacks.
D)   a social club for Confederate veterans who wanted to restore white supremacy.E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 17

What was the result of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Slaughterhouse cases (1873) ?

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A)   It limited the authority of federal courts in cases involving the civil rights of state citizens.
B)   It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections to make state governments compliant.
C)   It extended the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause to education.
D)   It reinforced that the rights of national citizenship took precedence over the rights of state citizenship.E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Exam 16: Reconstruction

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What happened to the whites who killed eighty-one blacks during the Colfax massacre?

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Who made up the majority of the Republican party in the South in the late 1800s?

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Match the term with the definition. -Constitutional amendment passed in 1866 that made all native-born or naturalized persons U.S. citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens. The amendment hoped to provide guarantee of equality before the law for black citizens.

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To challenge Grant's reelection campaign in 1872, both the Liberty party and the Democratic party endorsed

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Although Johnson had left the Democratic party before becoming president, he seemed more a Democrat than a Republican as president because he

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Union general Carl Schurz believed that to protect themselves from white oppression, newly freed blacks would need

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What was the result of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Slaughterhouse cases (1873) ?

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The Fifteenth Amendment

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How influential were African American politicians during the period southern whites derisively called "Negro domination"?

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