Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"Exodusters"

Accepted Answer

The "Exodusters" were African Americans

Question 2

Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Antony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment

Accepted Answer

A) despite having worked wholeheartedly for the cause of emancipation. 
B) because a citizen's right to vote was defined constitutionally as being limited to male citizens. 
C) despite being urged by their former ally, Frederick Douglass, to support the Fourteenth Amendment in order to enshrine black civil rights into the Constitution. 
D) because equal national citizenship was defined in the Constitution as limited to males. 
E) All of these choices are correct. 
A) despite having worked wholeheartedly for the cause of emancipation. 
B) because a citizen's right to vote was defined constitutionally as being limited to male citizens. 
C) despite being urged by their former ally, Frederick Douglass, to support the Fourteenth Amendment in order to enshrine black civil rights into the Constitution. 
D) because equal national citizenship was defined in the Constitution as limited to males. 
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Oliver O. Howard

Accepted Answer

Oliver Otis Howard (1830–1909) was a car

Question 4

Radical Reconstruction state governments in the South

Accepted Answer

A) were uniformly incompetent and and accomplished little in the way of social reforms or economic development. 
B) passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms such as establishing adequate public schools and launching public works. 
C) were significantly more corrupt than Northern state governments. 
D) had all of their social and economic reforms repealed by the all-white "redeemer governments" in the South 
E) None of these choices are correct. 
A) were uniformly incompetent and and accomplished little in the way of social reforms or economic development. 
B) passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms such as establishing adequate public schools and launching public works. 
C) were significantly more corrupt than Northern state governments. 
D) had all of their social and economic reforms repealed by the all-white "redeemer governments" in the South 
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 5

Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to

Accepted Answer

A) help them escape to the North during the Civil War. 
B) provide them with relief payments until the Freedmen's Bureau was established. 
C) educate them on their civic duties and campaign for Republican candidates. 
D) gain admittance to the Union Army. 
E) None of these choices are correct. 
A) help them escape to the North during the Civil War. 
B) provide them with relief payments until the Freedmen's Bureau was established. 
C) educate them on their civic duties and campaign for Republican candidates. 
D) gain admittance to the Union Army. 
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Force Acts

Accepted Answer

The Force Acts, also known as the Enforc

Question 7

Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges ultimately because

Accepted Answer

A) Secretary of War Edwin Stanton aided Johnson's defense by spying on congressional prosecutors. 
B) radical Republicans recognized that Johnson's successor would be worse. 
C) many people favored destabilizing the federal government. 
D) sufficient numbers of Republican senators recognized that the impeachment charges were legally dubious and politically charged and voted "not guilty." 
E) Johnson promised to reverse his Reconstruction policies and adopt all of the radical Republicans' positions. 
A) Secretary of War Edwin Stanton aided Johnson's defense by spying on congressional prosecutors. 
B) radical Republicans recognized that Johnson's successor would be worse. 
C) many people favored destabilizing the federal government. 
D) sufficient numbers of Republican senators recognized that the impeachment charges were legally dubious and politically charged and voted "not guilty." 
E) Johnson promised to reverse his Reconstruction policies and adopt all of the radical Republicans' positions.

Question 8

The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

Accepted Answer

A) veto of the Reconstruction Act of 1867. 
B) readmission of Southern states without seriously reconstructing them. 
C) dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act. 
D) apparent sympathy with the Ku Klux Klan. 
E) veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill. 
A) veto of the Reconstruction Act of 1867. 
B) readmission of Southern states without seriously reconstructing them. 
C) dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act. 
D) apparent sympathy with the Ku Klux Klan. 
E) veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill.

Question 9

All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson except

Accepted Answer

A) opposition to abusing the constitutional system of checks and balances. 
B) concern about the high-tariff, soft-money, and pro-labor views of radical Republican Benjamin Wade who would become president if President Johnson were convicted by the Senate. 
C) fears of creating a politically destabilizing and uncertain period of time in the nation. 
D) President Johnson promised to obstruct some of the Republican policies in return for remaining in office. 
E) President Johnson promised not to run for president in 1868 if acquitted. 
A) opposition to abusing the constitutional system of checks and balances. 
B) concern about the high-tariff, soft-money, and pro-labor views of radical Republican Benjamin Wade who would become president if President Johnson were convicted by the Senate. 
C) fears of creating a politically destabilizing and uncertain period of time in the nation. 
D) President Johnson promised to obstruct some of the Republican policies in return for remaining in office. 
E) President Johnson promised not to run for president in 1868 if acquitted.

Question 10

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

Accepted Answer

A) guarantee freedom for the blacks. 
B) ensure a stable and subservient labor supply. 
C) prevent interracial sex and marriage. 
D) prevent blacks from becoming sharecroppers. 
E) create a system of justice for ex-slaves. 
A) guarantee freedom for the blacks. 
B) ensure a stable and subservient labor supply. 
C) prevent interracial sex and marriage. 
D) prevent blacks from becoming sharecroppers. 
E) create a system of justice for ex-slaves.

Question 11

The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A) a ban on jury service by blacks. 
B) a restriction against black migration from the South. 
C) a bar on blacks from renting land. 
D) punishment of blacks for idleness. 
E) fines for blacks who jumped labor contracts. 
A) a ban on jury service by blacks. 
B) a restriction against black migration from the South. 
C) a bar on blacks from renting land. 
D) punishment of blacks for idleness. 
E) fines for blacks who jumped labor contracts.

Question 12

In 1865, following the conclusion of the Civil War,

Accepted Answer

A) Southern whites quickly admitted they had been wrong in trying to secede and win Southern independence. 
B) Southern whites rapidly turned their slaves into fairly paid, free labor employees. 
C) Southern blacks uniformly turned in anger and revenge against their former masters. 
D) Southern blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity. 
E) Southern blacks looked to the federal government for help. 
A) Southern whites quickly admitted they had been wrong in trying to secede and win Southern independence. 
B) Southern whites rapidly turned their slaves into fairly paid, free labor employees. 
C) Southern blacks uniformly turned in anger and revenge against their former masters. 
D) Southern blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity. 
E) Southern blacks looked to the federal government for help.

Question 13

The text authors claim that the midterm elections of 1866 were "more crucial than some presidential elections." Do you agree? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

I agree with the text authors' claim tha

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Black Codes

Accepted Answer

The Black Codes were laws passed by Sout

Question 15

The Exodusters' westward mass migration finally faltered when

Accepted Answer

A) homesteading on the Great Plains proved more difficult than expected. 
B) a massive, extended drought covered the Great Plains in in the late 1870s. 
C) steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi. 
D) white Kansans passed strict segregation laws. 
E) the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution were finally ratified. 
A) homesteading on the Great Plains proved more difficult than expected. 
B) a massive, extended drought covered the Great Plains in in the late 1870s. 
C) steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi. 
D) white Kansans passed strict segregation laws. 
E) the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution were finally ratified.

Question 16

A group of Kentucky blacks provided what description of the KKK in an 1871 letter to Congress?

Accepted Answer

A) The KKK members forced blacks to use separate accommodations from whites. 
B) The KKK dragged black men to testify positively on behalf of whites. 
C) The KKK rode through towns at night, robbing, whipping, ravishing and killing blacks. 
D) The KKK had especially targeted black farmers and land-owners. 
E) None of these choices are correct. 
A) The KKK members forced blacks to use separate accommodations from whites. 
B) The KKK dragged black men to testify positively on behalf of whites. 
C) The KKK rode through towns at night, robbing, whipping, ravishing and killing blacks. 
D) The KKK had especially targeted black farmers and land-owners. 
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Ex parte Milligan

Accepted Answer

Ex parte Milligan (1866) is a landmark U

Question 18

From 1878 to 1880, some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, known as "the Exodusters", were

Accepted Answer

A) black church leaders who linked emancipation to the Book of Exodus. 
B) black migrants from the South to Northern cities. 
C) black freedmen who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas. 
D) a political organization developed by the freedmen. 
E) black homesteaders in Oklahoma and Kansas who eventually fled the dust bowl. 
A) black church leaders who linked emancipation to the Book of Exodus. 
B) black migrants from the South to Northern cities. 
C) black freedmen who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas. 
D) a political organization developed by the freedmen. 
E) black homesteaders in Oklahoma and Kansas who eventually fled the dust bowl.

Question 19

All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except

Accepted Answer

A) blacks were forced to work under labor contracts for little money for one year. 
B) blacks who fled their employers could be dragged back to work by a paid "Negro-catcher." 
C) they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry. 
D) blacks who fled could be made to forfeit back wages or hired out to pay their fines. 
E) they were designed to reproduce the master-slave relationship after slavery was abolished. 
A) blacks were forced to work under labor contracts for little money for one year. 
B) blacks who fled their employers could be dragged back to work by a paid "Negro-catcher." 
C) they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry. 
D) blacks who fled could be made to forfeit back wages or hired out to pay their fines. 
E) they were designed to reproduce the master-slave relationship after slavery was abolished.

Question 20

The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was

Accepted Answer

A) Johnson's personal vulgarity and crude style of campaigning. 
B) the president's former ownership of slaves. 
C) Johnson's "soft" conciliatory treatment of the white South clashed with the congressional emphasis of promoting black freedom and racial equality in the South by many Republicans in Congress. 
D) Johnson's "class-based" policies that favored poor whites over the white planter and manufacturing classes. 
E) Johnson's underlying loyalty to the Democratic party. 
A) Johnson's personal vulgarity and crude style of campaigning. 
B) the president's former ownership of slaves. 
C) Johnson's "soft" conciliatory treatment of the white South clashed with the congressional emphasis of promoting black freedom and racial equality in the South by many Republicans in Congress. 
D) Johnson's "class-based" policies that favored poor whites over the white planter and manufacturing classes. 
E) Johnson's underlying loyalty to the Democratic party.

Exam 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"Exodusters"

Feminist leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Antony campaigned against Fourteenth Amendment

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Oliver O. Howard

Radical Reconstruction state governments in the South

Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Force Acts

Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges ultimately because

The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson except

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

In 1865, following the conclusion of the Civil War,

The text authors claim that the midterm elections of 1866 were "more crucial than some presidential elections." Do you agree? Why or why not?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Black Codes

The Exodusters' westward mass migration finally faltered when

A group of Kentucky blacks provided what description of the KKK in an 1871 letter to Congress?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ex parte Milligan

From 1878 to 1880, some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, known as "the Exodusters", were

All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except

The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was

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