Question 1

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

Accepted Answer

A)  A slaveholder had become president. 
B)  A man from a state that had seceded was now president. 
C)  An illiterate man was president. 
D)  A Ku Klux Klan leader ascended to the presidency. 
E)  Abraham Lincoln now regretted choosing Andrew Johnson as his vice president. 
A)  A slaveholder had become president. 
B)  A man from a state that had seceded was now president. 
C)  An illiterate man was president. 
D)  A Ku Klux Klan leader ascended to the presidency. 
E)  Abraham Lincoln now regretted choosing Andrew Johnson as his vice president.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Anglican and Catholic. 
B)  Congregational and Presbyterian. 
C)  Methodist and Baptist. 
D)  Lutheran and Methodist. 
E)  Episcopal and Baptist. 
A)  Anglican and Catholic. 
B)  Congregational and Presbyterian. 
C)  Methodist and Baptist. 
D)  Lutheran and Methodist. 
E)  Episcopal and Baptist.

Question 3

What did the freedmen request in their "Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" in 1865?

Accepted Answer

A)  The right to purchase a homestead. 
B)  An opportunity to attend a black college. 
C)  The purchase of some mules. 
D)  Help reuniting their family that had been sold. 
E)  The right to vote. 
A)  The right to purchase a homestead. 
B)  An opportunity to attend a black college. 
C)  The purchase of some mules. 
D)  Help reuniting their family that had been sold. 
E)  The right to vote.

Question 4

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 5

In the 1870s,who claimed to have saved the white South from the corruption of northern and black officials?

Accepted Answer

A)  Republicans. 
B)  Carpetbaggers. 
C)  Redeemers. 
D)  Scalawags. 
E)  Ulysses Grant. 
A)  Republicans. 
B)  Carpetbaggers. 
C)  Redeemers. 
D)  Scalawags. 
E)  Ulysses Grant.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  most rights of citizens were under the control of state governments rather than the federal government. 
B)  states could not interfere with vigorous federal enforcement of a broad array of civil rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. 
C)  the federal government had sole authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate the meatpacking industry. 
D)  voting rights of African-Americans under the Fifteenth Amendment could not be abridged or denied by any state. 
E)  Reconstruction had progressed too far and was now officially ended. 
A)  most rights of citizens were under the control of state governments rather than the federal government. 
B)  states could not interfere with vigorous federal enforcement of a broad array of civil rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. 
C)  the federal government had sole authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate the meatpacking industry. 
D)  voting rights of African-Americans under the Fifteenth Amendment could not be abridged or denied by any state. 
E)  Reconstruction had progressed too far and was now officially ended.

Question 7

When the Union was restored by 1870,the southern states had Democratic majorities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A)  declined because ex-slaves realized they owed their freedom to fellow human beings, not to God. 
B)  changed as African-Americans joined white churches rather than worshipping separately. 
C)  declined as other black-run institutions became more central in African-American life. 
D)  was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches. 
E)  became less important, as northern white churches moved into the South and took in most blacks. 
A)  declined because ex-slaves realized they owed their freedom to fellow human beings, not to God. 
B)  changed as African-Americans joined white churches rather than worshipping separately. 
C)  declined as other black-run institutions became more central in African-American life. 
D)  was central, as African-Americans formed their own churches. 
E)  became less important, as northern white churches moved into the South and took in most blacks.

Question 9

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Howard University

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 10

What was the northern vision for the Reconstruction-era southern economy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Emancipated African-Americans would have the same opportunities for advancement as northern whites. 
B)  Reduce northern investments in the South. 
C)  Abolish the Freedmen's Bureau. 
D)  Use sharecropping as the labor system would. 
E)  Make the South's economy surpass the North's. 
A)  Emancipated African-Americans would have the same opportunities for advancement as northern whites. 
B)  Reduce northern investments in the South. 
C)  Abolish the Freedmen's Bureau. 
D)  Use sharecropping as the labor system would. 
E)  Make the South's economy surpass the North's.

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United St

Question 12

The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the:

Accepted Answer

A)  Equality Era. 
B)  Gilded Age. 
C)  Socialist Era. 
D)  Information Age. 
E)  Second Reconstruction. 
A)  Equality Era. 
B)  Gilded Age. 
C)  Socialist Era. 
D)  Information Age. 
E)  Second Reconstruction.

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

The Black Codes were laws passed by Sout

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

Black officeholders during Reconstruction:

Accepted Answer

A)  were extremely rare. 
B)  were entirely carpetbaggers and scalawags. 
C)  helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens. 
D)  were limited to local offices. 
E)  demonstrated that whites had lost all of their political power in the South. 
A)  were extremely rare. 
B)  were entirely carpetbaggers and scalawags. 
C)  helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens. 
D)  were limited to local offices. 
E)  demonstrated that whites had lost all of their political power in the South.

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Black officeholders refer to individuals

Question 17

Why specifically did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan fail?

Accepted Answer

A)  The South remained poor. 
B)  Black southerners were apathetic to equal rights. 
C)  Prominent ex-Confederates and pre-Civil War elite came into power. 
D)  Blacks refused to work with white politicians in the South. 
E)  From the beginning, no northerners supported his plan. 
A)  The South remained poor. 
B)  Black southerners were apathetic to equal rights. 
C)  Prominent ex-Confederates and pre-Civil War elite came into power. 
D)  Blacks refused to work with white politicians in the South. 
E)  From the beginning, no northerners supported his plan.

Question 18

Radical Republicans:

Accepted Answer

A)  tended to come from the border states that had seen most of the vicious fighting during the Civil War. 
B)  wanted legitimate democracy in the South, with power to be shared by planters and freed slaves. 
C)  fought Andrew Johnson from the day he entered the White House. 
D)  fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War. 
E)  agreed on the need to end slavery but disagreed with one another over whether the freed slaves were entitled to civil rights. 
A)  tended to come from the border states that had seen most of the vicious fighting during the Civil War. 
B)  wanted legitimate democracy in the South, with power to be shared by planters and freed slaves. 
C)  fought Andrew Johnson from the day he entered the White House. 
D)  fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War. 
E)  agreed on the need to end slavery but disagreed with one another over whether the freed slaves were entitled to civil rights.

Question 19

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Special Field Order 15

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 20

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Impeachment

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

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

What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson?

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

What did the freedmen request in their "Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson" in 1865?

The Fourteenth Amendment:

In the 1870s,who claimed to have saved the white South from the corruption of northern and black officials?

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

When the Union was restored by 1870,the southern states had Democratic majorities.

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

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Howard University

What was the northern vision for the Reconstruction-era southern economy?

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

The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the:

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

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.

Black officeholders during Reconstruction:

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

Why specifically did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan fail?

Radical Republicans:

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Special Field Order 15

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Impeachment

A New World

Beginnings of English America,1607-1660

Creating Anglo-America,1660-1750

Slavery,Freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

The American Revolution,1763-1783

The Revolution Within

Founding a Nation,1783-1791

Securing the Republic,1790-1815

The Market Revolution,1800-1840

Democracy in America,1815-1840

The Peculiar Institution

An Age of Reform,1820-1840

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

The Progressive Era,1900-1916

Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I,1916-1920

From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties,1920-1932

The New Deal,1932-1940

Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II,1941-1945

The United States and the Cold War,1945-1953

An Affluent Society,1953-1960

The Sixties,1960-1968

The Triumph of Conservatism,1969-1988

From Triumph to Tragedy,1989–2001

A New Century and New Crises

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