Question 1

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington

Accepted Answer

A)  called for political and civil rights for black Americans. 
B)  criticized the federal government for abandoning southern blacks. 
C)  argued that blacks should honor their African forebears. 
D)  stated that blacks should give up in seeking equality with whites. 
E)  called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation. 
A)  called for political and civil rights for black Americans. 
B)  criticized the federal government for abandoning southern blacks. 
C)  argued that blacks should honor their African forebears. 
D)  stated that blacks should give up in seeking equality with whites. 
E)  called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.

Question 2

In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system

Accepted Answer

A)  encouraged the planting of cash crops. 
B)  nearly disappeared during Reconstruction. 
C)  led to crop diversification. 
D)  was generally imposed on blacks, but not white farmers. 
E)  saw interest rates rise as high as 20 or 30 percent. 
A)  encouraged the planting of cash crops. 
B)  nearly disappeared during Reconstruction. 
C)  led to crop diversification. 
D)  was generally imposed on blacks, but not white farmers. 
E)  saw interest rates rise as high as 20 or 30 percent.

Question 3

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

Accepted Answer

A)  involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration. 
B)  saw John Wilkes Booth convicted of the murder of the president. 
C)  brought a Radical Republican to the presidency. 
D)  was intended to bring Andrew Johnson into the presidency. 
E)  had been planned at the highest levels of the Confederate government. 
A)  involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration. 
B)  saw John Wilkes Booth convicted of the murder of the president. 
C)  brought a Radical Republican to the presidency. 
D)  was intended to bring Andrew Johnson into the presidency. 
E)  had been planned at the highest levels of the Confederate government.

Question 4

The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)  insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist. 
B)  argued it best to readmit the Confederate states to the Union without condition. 
C)  called on the Confederacy to negotiate a peace treaty with the United States. 
D)  met with Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia. 
E)  declared that the Confederate government must repudiate its constitution. 
A)  insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist. 
B)  argued it best to readmit the Confederate states to the Union without condition. 
C)  called on the Confederacy to negotiate a peace treaty with the United States. 
D)  met with Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia. 
E)  declared that the Confederate government must repudiate its constitution.

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington

In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.

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

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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Exam 15: Reconstruction and the New South

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington

In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.

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

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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