Question 1

Black officeholders during Reconstruction:

Accepted Answer

helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens.

Question 2

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that:

Accepted Answer

most rights of citizens are under the control of state governments rather than the federal government.

Question 3

Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?

Accepted Answer

Johnson's lawyers assured moderate Republicans that he would behave for the rest of his term, so several voted to acquit him.

Question 4

What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?

Accepted Answer

He allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act.

Question 5

When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he:

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argued that it discriminated against whites.

Question 6

During Reconstruction, southern cities:

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enjoyed newfound prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the North.

Question 7

The northern vision of the Reconstruction-era southern economy included all of the following EXCEPT:

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the labor system would be as close to slavery as possible, thereby assuring high productivity.

Question 8

The southern Black Codes:

Accepted Answer

allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.

Question 9

Which denominations had the largest followings among blacks after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Methodist and Baptist

Question 10

Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of southern governments run by Republicans during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

widespread transformation of plantations into black-owned farms

Question 11

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866:

Accepted Answer

defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.

Question 12

The Whiskey Ring scandal took place during the administration of:

Accepted Answer

Ulysses Grant.

Question 13

In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the __________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction Act

Question 14

During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone who supported a woman's right to vote:

Accepted Answer

found themselves divided over whether or not to support the Fifteenth Amendment.

Question 15

Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?

Accepted Answer

Blacks adopted different ways of testing their freedom, including moving about, seeking kin, and rejecting older forms of deferential behavior.

Question 16

The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to:

Accepted Answer

stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 17

The Fourteenth Amendment:

Accepted Answer

marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.

Question 18

During Reconstruction, the role of the church in the black community:

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was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches.

Question 19

The crop-lien system:

Accepted Answer

kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.

Question 20

In 1875, when Mississippi governor Adelbert Ames asked President Grant for help because white rifle clubs had openly assaulted and murdered Republicans, Grant:

Accepted Answer

told Ames that the northern public was tired out with southern problems.

Question 21

The Liberal Republican movement in 1872:

Accepted Answer

initially had little to do with Reconstruction but encouraged opposition to Grant's policies in the South.

Question 22

General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order 15:

Accepted Answer

set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.

Question 23

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1873 case in which Myra Bradwell challenged an Illinois statute excluding women from practicing law:

Accepted Answer

demonstrates that, while racial definitions of freedom were changing, gendered ones still existed.

Question 24

How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?

Accepted Answer

The black family became more like the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers.

Question 25

The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans' aims was:

Accepted Answer

land reform.

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