Post CW
1. At the end of the Civil War, the United States faced all of the following problems EXCEPT:
A) Over 100,000 lives lost
B) Southern economy destroyed
C) Northern states seceding from the Union
D) Challenges of readmitting Confederate states
Northern states seceding from the Union
Many African Americans could not afford to become sharecroppers and were often forced into:
Labor contracts with former slaveholders
Radical Republicans wanted to:
A) Limit voting rights to white men
B) Give voting rights to all men, regardless of race
C) Abolish the Republican Party
D) Return Confederate states to power without restrictions
Give voting rights to all men, regardless of race
Johnson’s views on African American political rights were:
A) Supportive of full equality
B) Focused on women’s rights
C) Did not protect their political rights
D) Strongly aligned with Radical Republicans
Did not protect their political rights
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed to:
A) Limit African American rights
B) Override Black Codes and grant African Americans property ownership and equal treatment in court
C) Reinforce Johnson’s Reconstruction plan
D) End military Reconstruction
Override Black Codes and grant African Americans property ownership and equal treatment in court
By 1860, the Northern economy was primarily based on:
A) Agriculture
B) Manufacturing
C) Sharecropping
D) Slavery
Manufacturing
During the Civil War, the Northern economy: A) Collapsed along with the South
B) Remained stagnant
C) Expanded and improved
D) Became entirely agricultural
Expanded and improved
The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 proposed:
A) Immediate readmittance of Southern states without conditions
B) Stricter requirements for Southern states to rejoin the Union
C) Freedoms for African Americans only in Northern states
D) Lincoln’s assassination
Stricter requirements for Southern states to rejoin the Union
Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction included all of the following EXCEPT:
:
A) Pardoning former Confederates who took an oath of loyalty
B) Returning private property (excluding slaves)
C) Requiring Southern states to ratify the 13th Amendment
D) Guaranteeing voting rights for African Americans
Guaranteeing voting rights for African Americans
The 14th Amendment granted:
Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
By 1860, the Southern economy relied mostly on:
A) Industry
B) Agriculture
C) Trade with Europe
D) Mining
Agriculture
Before the war ended, President Lincoln announced he would pardon Southerners who:
A) Agreed to free their slaves immediately
B) Took an oath of loyalty to the Union
C) Paid a fine to the federal government
D) Moved to Northern states
Took an oath of loyalty to the Union
What did Lincoln do with the Wade-Davis Bill?
Vetoed it
The 13th Amendment, which Southern states had to ratify under Johnson’s plan, did what?
Ended slavery
The 15th Amendment focused on:
Protecting the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
After the Civil War, many Southern farms, land, and bridges were:
A) Unchanged
B) Destroyed
C) Expanded
D) Turned into factories
Destroyed
Lincoln’s plan for pardoning Southerners restored:
A) Their right to vote and hold property, except enslaved people
B) All their property including enslaved people
C) Only their military positions
D) None of their previous rights
Their right to vote and hold property, except enslaved people
The Freedmen’s Bureau, created in 1865, was designed to:
A) Help Northern soldiers return home
B) Assist freed African Americans by providing food, clothes, and work opportunities
C) Enforce the Wade-Davis Bill
D) Establish sharecropping in the North
Assist freed African Americans by providing food, clothes, and work opportunities
Black Codes were designed to:
A) Promote African American political participation
B) Keep African Americans in conditions similar to slavery
C) Encourage African Americans to own land
D) Protect voting rights
Keep African Americans in conditions similar to slavery
The Military Reconstruction Act of 1867:
A) Supported Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan
B) Divided the former Confederacy into five military districts (except Tennessee)
C) Ended all African American voting rights
D) Allowed Southern states to ignore the 14th Amendment
Divided the former Confederacy into five military districts (except Tennessee)
The system of sharecropping can be best described as:
A) Workers owning land and hiring laborers
B) Renting a small piece of land and giving a share of crops to a landlord
C) Factory labor in Northern cities
D) Free education programs for freed people
Renting a small piece of land and giving a share of crops to a landlord
Many sharecroppers remained in poverty because:
A) They were required to pay extremely high taxes
B) They could not escape the cycle of debt
C) Northern states refused to trade with the South
D) The government banned crop farming
They could not escape the cycle of debt
Andrew Johnson became president because:
He was Lincoln’s Vice President and Lincoln was assassinated
Black Codes restricted African Americans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
:
A) Prevented voting
B) Barred serving on juries
C) Limited ability to marry a white partner
D) Gave them the right to own property
Gave them the right to own property
Andrew Johnson was impeached because:
A) He committed crimes unrelated to his office
B) He violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
C) He refused to ratify the 13th Amendment
D) He attempted to secede from the Union
He violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
What was the outcome of Johnson’s impeachment trial?
He was acquitted by one vote and remained in office
The term carpetbagger referred to:
A) A Southern planter who supported slavery
B) A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported Republicans
C) A former slave who became a legislator
D) A Southern soldier returning from the war
A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported Republicans
The term scalawag referred to:
A Southerner who supported Republicans and Reconstruction
The 15th Amendment allowed:
Newly freed African American males to participate in government
Violence in the South during the spring and summer of 1866 was largely caused by:
A) Northern soldiers enforcing Reconstruction
B) Southern whites and former Confederate soldiers resisting social and political changes
C) Disputes between African American groups
D) Economic collapse in Northern cities
Southern whites and former Confederate soldiers resisting social and political changes
The Ku Klux Klan was formed to:
A) Support African American voting rights
B) Drive out Northern reformers and prevent African Americans from exercising civil rights
C) Promote fair elections in the South
D) Assist the Freedmen’s Bureau in distributing supplies
Drive out Northern reformers and prevent African Americans from exercising civil rights
Congress passed three Enforcement Acts to:
A) Promote Southern industry
B) Combat acts of violence and protect African Americans’ rights in the South
C) Rebuild Northern cities
D) Support sharecropping systems
Combat acts of violence and protect African Americans’ rights in the South
Ulysses S. Grant became president in 1868 because:
A) He was the first African American elected to Congress
B) His reputation as a Union general in the Civil War helped him win
C) He promised to end Reconstruction immediately
D) He opposed African American political participation
His reputation as a Union general in the Civil War helped him win
Grant’s second term was weakened by:
A series of scandals in his cabinet and the economic crisis of 1873
The Compromise of 1877 effectively ended Reconstruction by:
Removing federal troops from the South after Rutherford B. Hayes became president