Question 1

In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln

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A. insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.

Question 2

At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States was

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D. three-and-a-half million.

Question 3

In 1865, Southern blacks defined freedom as

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C. land reform.

Question 4

In 1865, Southern whites defined freedom as

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B. controlling their future without Northern interference.

Question 5

The Freedmen's Bureau

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A. distributed food to millions of Southern blacks.

Question 6

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

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B. Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.

Question 7

President Abraham Lincoln's ten percent plan for the South referred to

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E. the number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.

Question 8

The Wade-Davis Bill

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C. called for the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.

Question 9

The story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

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A. involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.

Question 10

As president, Andrew Johnson

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D. offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.

Question 11

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

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E. designed to give whites control over freedmen.

Question 12

The Fourteenth Amendment

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C. gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.

Question 13

Race riots in the South during the 1866 elections most helped the political fortunes of

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C. former Southern Whigs.

Question 14

In 1867, Congressional plans for Reconstruction

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D. required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.

Question 15

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

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E. suffrage.

Question 16

The Tenure of Office Act

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B. was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.

Question 17

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical Republicans

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C. proposed abolishing the Court.

Question 18

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

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D. All the answers are correct.

Question 19

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,

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E. Johnson was spared conviction by one vote.

Question 20

During Reconstruction, the term Scalawags referred to

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A. Southern white Republicans.

Question 21

During Reconstruction, most carpetbaggers were

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D. Northern white veterans who moved to the South.

Question 22

During Reconstruction, Southern African-American officeholders

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E. underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.

Question 23

During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern

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B. education.

Question 24

During Reconstruction, the Southern school system

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A. eventually reached forty percent of all black children.

Question 25

During Reconstruction, in regards to land ownership in the South,

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E. ownership by whites declined while ownership by blacks increased.

Question 26

Black sharecropping

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D. was a very common occupation of former slaves.

Question 27

During Reconstruction, per capita income for Southerners

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E. rose for blacks and declined for whites.

Question 28

During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked

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B. significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery.

Question 29

After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from

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D. country stores.

Question 30

In the South, the crop-lien system

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A. encouraged the planting of cash crops.

Question 31

After the Civil War, most Southern black women

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C. engaged in income-producing activities.

Question 32

In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

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C. entered the White House with no political experience.

Question 33

All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPT

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A. President Ulysses Grant.

Question 34

The Panic of 1873

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E. was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.

Question 35

During the Grant administration, the United States acquired

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A. Alaska.

Question 36

The Alabama claims

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B. involved complaints by the United States against England.

Question 37

The redeemed governments of the South

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A. saw an end to occupation by federal troops.

Question 38

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871

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A. was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.

Question 39

National support for Reconstruction was undermined by

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E. All the answers are correct.

Question 40

The elections of 1876 saw

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C. the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.

Question 41

As president, Rutherford B. Hayes

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B. promised to serve only one term.

Question 42

Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if

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E. the federal government had better enforced the laws designed to assist blacks.

Question 43

After Reconstruction, political power under Southern Redeemers

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A. was very often restricted and conservative.

Question 44

Advocates of the New South

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C. promoted Southern industry and railroad development.

Question 45

In the South, during the last quarter of the nineteenth century

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A. its share of national manufacturing doubled.

Question 46

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Southern agriculture

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E. saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.

Question 47

Among his ideas, Booker T. Washington

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B. favored industrial over classical education.

Question 48

In his 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech, Booker T. Washington

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E. called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.

Question 49

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that

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C. racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal accommodations.

Question 50

In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from

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D. All the answers are correct.

Question 51

Jim Crow laws

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A. imposed a system of state-supported segregation.

Question 52

In the 1890s, voting percentages in the South

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E. decreased for whites and blacks.

Question 53

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking

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D. the crime of lynching.

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