Question 1

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Compromise of 1877

Accepted Answer

A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in the South 
B) scandal in the Grant administration 
C) origin of "forty acres and a mule" 
D) northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction 
E) ended Reconstruction
F)government agency that helped blacks in the South
G)black school in Washington, D.C.
H)public official charged with wrongdoing
I)southern-born white Republican
J)targeted the Ku Klux Klan
K)Democrats who took control in the South during the 1870s
L)terrorist organization 
A) restrictions placed on freed blacks in the South 
B) scandal in the Grant administration 
C) origin of "forty acres and a mule" 
D) northern-born Republicans in the South during Reconstruction 
E) ended Reconstruction
F)government agency that helped blacks in the South
G)black school in Washington, D.C.
H)public official charged with wrongdoing
I)southern-born white Republican
J)targeted the Ku Klux Klan
K)Democrats who took control in the South during the 1870s
L)terrorist organization

Question 2

The southern Black Codes:

Accepted Answer

A)  allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts. 
B)  allowed former slaves to testify in court against whites and to serve on juries. 
C)  were some of the first laws adopted as part of Radical Reconstruction in 1867. 
D)  were denounced by President Johnson and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 
E)  pleased northerners because they saw that the rule of law was returning to the South. 
A)  allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts. 
B)  allowed former slaves to testify in court against whites and to serve on juries. 
C)  were some of the first laws adopted as part of Radical Reconstruction in 1867. 
D)  were denounced by President Johnson and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. 
E)  pleased northerners because they saw that the rule of law was returning to the South.

Question 3

Opponents of Radical Reconstruction could not accept the idea of former slaves voting,holding office,and enjoying equality before the law.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Anson Burlingame

Accepted Answer

A) second black U.S.senator 
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 
C) Presidential Reconstruction 
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate 
E) envoy to China
F)Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G)Whiskey Ring
H)ended Reconstruction
I)National Woman Suffrage Association
J)Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K)first black U.S.senator
L)secretary of war 
A) second black U.S.senator 
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 
C) Presidential Reconstruction 
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate 
E) envoy to China
F)Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G)Whiskey Ring
H)ended Reconstruction
I)National Woman Suffrage Association
J)Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K)first black U.S.senator
L)secretary of war

Question 5

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Radical Republicans

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 6

Sharecropping:

Accepted Answer

A)  meant that African-Americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks. 
B)  was a compromise between African-Americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor. 
C)  was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of South Carolina and Georgia. 
D)  became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity. 
E)  was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision). 
A)  meant that African-Americans were paid their share daily for doing specific tasks. 
B)  was a compromise between African-Americans' desire for discipline and planters' desire to learn to do physical labor. 
C)  was most popular in the old rice-plantation areas of South Carolina and Georgia. 
D)  became more popular because of rising farm prices that brought increased prosperity. 
E)  was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).

Question 7

After the Civil War,many ex-slaves traveled throughout the South.What was the reality for these ex-slaves?

Accepted Answer

A)  Many took up crime because of a lack of jobs. 
B)  Some of the drifters organized into terrorists, seeking revenge against their former slave-owners. 
C)  Many freed blacks drifted aimlessly through the South. 
D)  Large revivals of African-Americans, who had recently converted to Christianity, took place in the countryside. 
E)  Many slaves were moving around in search of family members who had been sold. 
A)  Many took up crime because of a lack of jobs. 
B)  Some of the drifters organized into terrorists, seeking revenge against their former slave-owners. 
C)  Many freed blacks drifted aimlessly through the South. 
D)  Large revivals of African-Americans, who had recently converted to Christianity, took place in the countryside. 
E)  Many slaves were moving around in search of family members who had been sold.

Question 8

James Pike's The Prostrate State was in support of the black Republican governments in the South during Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The 1868 presidential election saw Ulysses S.Grant defeating Horatio Seymour.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What made the Burlingame Treaty unique?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was actually a declaration of war against China. 
B)  It recognized the sovereignty of China. 
C)  It declared all of East Asia's ports to be America's sphere of influence. 
D)  It gave Great Britain Hong Kong. 
E)  It ended the Opium Wars. 
A)  It was actually a declaration of war against China. 
B)  It recognized the sovereignty of China. 
C)  It declared all of East Asia's ports to be America's sphere of influence. 
D)  It gave Great Britain Hong Kong. 
E)  It ended the Opium Wars.

Question 11

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 12

Was Reconstruction a success or a failure? Or was it something in between? In your response,consider land policy,key legislation during Presidential and Radical Reconstruction,southern politics,racial and political violence,and northern "fatigue" with Reconstruction.Be sure to make clear what you mean by success and failure.

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction was a complex and multifa

Question 13

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 14

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866:

Accepted Answer

A)  was proposed by border-state Democrats. 
B)  provided African-Americans with the right to vote. 
C)  defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race. 
D)  allowed states to determine essential citizenship standards. 
E)  won the support of President Andrew Johnson. 
A)  was proposed by border-state Democrats. 
B)  provided African-Americans with the right to vote. 
C)  defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race. 
D)  allowed states to determine essential citizenship standards. 
E)  won the support of President Andrew Johnson.

Question 15

The Freedmen's Bureau resembled some government social policies that would be used during the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The Prostrate State depicts:

Accepted Answer

A)  an ailing slave who is unable to live long enough to see emancipation. 
B)  South Carolina under allegedly corrupt Negro rule during Reconstruction. 
C)  an economically weak South unable to contribute to the national economy. 
D)  a terrorized black community during the reign of the Ku Klux Klan. 
E)  an apathetic Congress that has given up on Reconstruction after 1870. 
A)  an ailing slave who is unable to live long enough to see emancipation. 
B)  South Carolina under allegedly corrupt Negro rule during Reconstruction. 
C)  an economically weak South unable to contribute to the national economy. 
D)  a terrorized black community during the reign of the Ku Klux Klan. 
E)  an apathetic Congress that has given up on Reconstruction after 1870.

Question 17

With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment,all people born in the United States were automatically citizens.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Because of land redistribution,the vast majority of rural freedmen and freedwomen prospered during Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Ku Klux Klan

Accepted Answer

The Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated as t

Question 20

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Thaddeus Stevens

Accepted Answer

A) second black U.S.senator 
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 
C) Presidential Reconstruction 
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate 
E) envoy to China
F)Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G)Whiskey Ring
H)ended Reconstruction
I)National Woman Suffrage Association
J)Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K)first black U.S.senator
L)secretary of war 
A) second black U.S.senator 
B) proposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 
C) Presidential Reconstruction 
D) Liberal Republican's presidential candidate 
E) envoy to China
F)Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania
G)Whiskey Ring
H)ended Reconstruction
I)National Woman Suffrage Association
J)Radical Republican senator from Massachusetts
K)first black U.S.senator
L)secretary of war

Exam 15: “What Is Freedom?”: Reconstruction,1865-1877

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Compromise of 1877

The southern Black Codes:

Opponents of Radical Reconstruction could not accept the idea of former slaves voting,holding office,and enjoying equality before the law.

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Anson Burlingame

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Radical Republicans

Sharecropping:

After the Civil War,many ex-slaves traveled throughout the South.What was the reality for these ex-slaves?

James Pike's The Prostrate State was in support of the black Republican governments in the South during Reconstruction.

The 1868 presidential election saw Ulysses S.Grant defeating Horatio Seymour.

What made the Burlingame Treaty unique?

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

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been:

The Civil Rights Bill of 1866:

The Freedmen's Bureau resembled some government social policies that would be used during the Great Depression.

The Prostrate State depicts:

With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment,all people born in the United States were automatically citizens.

Because of land redistribution,the vast majority of rural freedmen and freedwomen prospered during Reconstruction.

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Ku Klux Klan

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Thaddeus Stevens

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Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-America,1660-1750

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The American Revolution,1763-1783

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The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

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A House Divided,1840-1861

A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War,1861-1865

America’s Gilded Age,1870-1890

Freedom’s Boundaries,at Home and Abroad,1890-1900

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The New Deal,1932-1940

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