Question 1

What can be determined through analyzing the "Sharecropping Contract"?

Accepted Answer

A)  The ex-slave was given an agreement that mutually benefited both parties. 
B)  Ex-slaves were not going to be allowed to go to church. 
C)  The ex-slaves were lazy and unwilling to do farmwork. 
D)  The contract was a type of economic slavery. 
E)  This farming system gave African-Americans a good standard of living. 
A)  The ex-slave was given an agreement that mutually benefited both parties. 
B)  Ex-slaves were not going to be allowed to go to church. 
C)  The ex-slaves were lazy and unwilling to do farmwork. 
D)  The contract was a type of economic slavery. 
E)  This farming system gave African-Americans a good standard of living.

Question 2

Black ministers during Reconstruction played a minor role in politics because they could not hold public offices.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

"Waving the bloody shirt" referred to

Accepted Answer

A)  a powerful symbol of Ku Klux Klan violence against African-Americans. 
B)  a Democratic campaign prop that reminded voters that Republicans had been responsible for the Civil War. 
C)  a Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason. 
D)  a sign of surrender that southern whites used to signify their loss of power. 
E)  Andrew Johnson's use of Abraham Lincoln's death for political purposes. 
A)  a powerful symbol of Ku Klux Klan violence against African-Americans. 
B)  a Democratic campaign prop that reminded voters that Republicans had been responsible for the Civil War. 
C)  a Republican attempt to associate Democrats with secession and treason. 
D)  a sign of surrender that southern whites used to signify their loss of power. 
E)  Andrew Johnson's use of Abraham Lincoln's death for political purposes.

Question 4

In which way did the black church change during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

A)  It started to play a central role as blacks abandoned white-controlled religious institutions. 
B)  It no longer played a central role because blacks walked away from religion in large numbers. 
C)  It became cut off from the African-American community because it was deemed too radical. 
D)  It stopped playing a fundamental part in blacks' lives as they started to create more brotherhoods. 
E)  Its rise coincided with a decreased interest in education on the part of African-Americans. 
A)  It started to play a central role as blacks abandoned white-controlled religious institutions. 
B)  It no longer played a central role because blacks walked away from religion in large numbers. 
C)  It became cut off from the African-American community because it was deemed too radical. 
D)  It stopped playing a fundamental part in blacks' lives as they started to create more brotherhoods. 
E)  Its rise coincided with a decreased interest in education on the part of African-Americans.

Question 5

Which statement is true about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

Accepted Answer

A)  The KKK was primarily concerned with stopping Asian immigration to the South. 
B)  Founded in 1866 in Tennessee, the KKK was a terrorist organization that attacked black and white Republicans during Reconstruction. 
C)  Most southern planters, merchants, and Democratic politicians who considered themselves "respectable citizens" publicly condemned the Klan. 
D)  President Grant's dispatching of federal marshals and troops in 1871 failed to have any effect on Klan violence. 
E)  The KKK functioned as the military arm of the Republican Party in the South. 
A)  The KKK was primarily concerned with stopping Asian immigration to the South. 
B)  Founded in 1866 in Tennessee, the KKK was a terrorist organization that attacked black and white Republicans during Reconstruction. 
C)  Most southern planters, merchants, and Democratic politicians who considered themselves "respectable citizens" publicly condemned the Klan. 
D)  President Grant's dispatching of federal marshals and troops in 1871 failed to have any effect on Klan violence. 
E)  The KKK functioned as the military arm of the Republican Party in the South.

Question 6

Andrew Johnson

Accepted Answer

A)  simply continued Lincoln's Reconstruction policies. 
B)  agreed with Lincoln that some African-Americans should be allowed suffrage rights. 
C)  won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1868 but narrowly lost the election. 
D)  lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion. 
E)  displayed a great ability to compromise, very much like Lincoln. 
A)  simply continued Lincoln's Reconstruction policies. 
B)  agreed with Lincoln that some African-Americans should be allowed suffrage rights. 
C)  won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1868 but narrowly lost the election. 
D)  lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion. 
E)  displayed a great ability to compromise, very much like Lincoln.

Question 7

Black suffrage made little difference in the South, as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Because President Johnson ended land reform and no land distribution took place,

Accepted Answer

A)  most white yeoman farmers were able to become plantation owners. 
B)  the South industrialized and most African-Americans got jobs in factories. 
C)  the task system became the dominant labor system in the cotton-producing regions. 
D)  the vast majority of rural African-Americans remained poor and without property. 
E)  plantation owners no longer wielded economic and political power. 
A)  most white yeoman farmers were able to become plantation owners. 
B)  the South industrialized and most African-Americans got jobs in factories. 
C)  the task system became the dominant labor system in the cotton-producing regions. 
D)  the vast majority of rural African-Americans remained poor and without property. 
E)  plantation owners no longer wielded economic and political power.

Question 9

After the Civil War, some ex-slaves walked hundreds of miles in search of family members.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The Fifteenth Amendment

Accepted Answer

A)  banned governments from denying the right to vote on the basis of race. 
B)  guaranteed the right to vote for African-American men and women. 
C)  declared that citizens must own at least 160 acres of land in order to vote. 
D)  abolished slavery. 
E)  applied only to the former Confederate states. 
A)  banned governments from denying the right to vote on the basis of race. 
B)  guaranteed the right to vote for African-American men and women. 
C)  declared that citizens must own at least 160 acres of land in order to vote. 
D)  abolished slavery. 
E)  applied only to the former Confederate states.

Question 11

Do you think the permanent distribution of land to former slaves would have made a difference in the outcome of Reconstruction? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

The permanent distribution of land to fo

Question 12

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been

Accepted Answer

A)  owners of large southern plantations before the Civil War. 
B)  non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War. 
C)  enslaved African-Americans before emancipation. 
D)  Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the South. 
E)  Confederate officers and Confederate government officials during the Civil War. 
A)  owners of large southern plantations before the Civil War. 
B)  non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War. 
C)  enslaved African-Americans before emancipation. 
D)  Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the South. 
E)  Confederate officers and Confederate government officials during the Civil War.

Question 13

When analyzing the election of 1876, what conclusion can be drawn?

Accepted Answer

A)  Rutherford Hayes did poorly in the western states. 
B)  The Republican Party did a good job protecting the voting rights of African-Americans in Mississippi. 
C)  A majority of northerners wanted to enforce Reconstruction policies more stringently. 
D)  The Republican Party had increased its support in the South. 
E)  If Tilden had won Louisiana, Florida, or South Carolina, he would have been president. 
A)  Rutherford Hayes did poorly in the western states. 
B)  The Republican Party did a good job protecting the voting rights of African-Americans in Mississippi. 
C)  A majority of northerners wanted to enforce Reconstruction policies more stringently. 
D)  The Republican Party had increased its support in the South. 
E)  If Tilden had won Louisiana, Florida, or South Carolina, he would have been president.

Question 14

Thaddeus Stevens's most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to the South.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The Fourteenth Amendment

Accepted Answer

A)  passed despite the opposition of Charles Sumner. 
B)  specifically defined suffrage as one of the civil rights to which freedpeople were entitled. 
C)  represented a compromise between the moderate and conservative positions on race. 
D)  marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights. 
E)  placed into the U.S. Constitution an essential holding of the Dred Scott decision. 
A)  passed despite the opposition of Charles Sumner. 
B)  specifically defined suffrage as one of the civil rights to which freedpeople were entitled. 
C)  represented a compromise between the moderate and conservative positions on race. 
D)  marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights. 
E)  placed into the U.S. Constitution an essential holding of the Dred Scott decision.

Question 16

According to the petitions that freedmen sent to President Andrew Johnson, what had the government promised them?

Accepted Answer

A)  voting rights 
B)  education 
C)  equality between men and women 
D)  medicine 
E)  homesteads 
A)  voting rights 
B)  education 
C)  equality between men and women 
D)  medicine 
E)  homesteads

Question 17

Eric Foner argues, "The Reconstruction amendments transformed the Constitution from a document primarily concerned with federal-state relations and the rights of property into a vehicle through which members of vulnerable minorities could stake a claim." Please explain in your own words how the Constitution changed due to the amendments. Who were the main actors involved?

Accepted Answer

The Reconstruction amendments, which inc

Question 18

During Reconstruction, the majority of southern African-Americans

Accepted Answer

A)  remained poor and without property. 
B)  had the opportunity to purchase land. 
C)  managed to climb the social scale. 
D)  felt satisfied with their work. 
E)  believed the government was fulfilling its promises. 
A)  remained poor and without property. 
B)  had the opportunity to purchase land. 
C)  managed to climb the social scale. 
D)  felt satisfied with their work. 
E)  believed the government was fulfilling its promises.

Question 19

By examining Reconstruction from 1863 to 1877, what conclusion can be drawn?

Accepted Answer

A)  It remade the South economically. 
B)  Equal rights for African-Americans continued to increase after 1877. 
C)  It was one of the most complex time periods in American history. 
D)  It was a total failure and left no blueprint for the future. 
E)  The United States had become a declining world power in regard to trade. 
A)  It remade the South economically. 
B)  Equal rights for African-Americans continued to increase after 1877. 
C)  It was one of the most complex time periods in American history. 
D)  It was a total failure and left no blueprint for the future. 
E)  The United States had become a declining world power in regard to trade.

Question 20

By the mid-1870s, white farmers were cultivating as much as 80 percent of the region's cotton crop.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 15: What Is Freedom: Reconstruction, 1865-1877

What can be determined through analyzing the "Sharecropping Contract"?

Black ministers during Reconstruction played a minor role in politics because they could not hold public offices.

"Waving the bloody shirt" referred to

In which way did the black church change during Reconstruction?

Which statement is true about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

Andrew Johnson

Black suffrage made little difference in the South, as very few blacks voted or ran for public office during Reconstruction.

Because President Johnson ended land reform and no land distribution took place,

After the Civil War, some ex-slaves walked hundreds of miles in search of family members.

The Fifteenth Amendment

Do you think the permanent distribution of land to former slaves would have made a difference in the outcome of Reconstruction? Why or why not?

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been

When analyzing the election of 1876, what conclusion can be drawn?

Thaddeus Stevens's most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters and divide it among former slaves and northern migrants to the South.

The Fourteenth Amendment

According to the petitions that freedmen sent to President Andrew Johnson, what had the government promised them?

During Reconstruction, the majority of southern African-Americans

By examining Reconstruction from 1863 to 1877, what conclusion can be drawn?

By the mid-1870s, white farmers were cultivating as much as 80 percent of the region's cotton crop.

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