Question 1

In decisions after the Civil War, the Supreme Court ______________________.

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A)  upheld the efforts of the Radicals to punish the South 
B)  led the drive to guarantee full equality for the former slaves 
C)  repeatedly overruled actions taken by Union generals during the military occupation of the South 
D)  participated in the Northern retreat from the Reconstruction commitment to equality for the freedmen

Question 2

The Fourteenth Amendment represented a compromise between Radical and Conservative Republicans. Write an essay reviewing the major provisions of this amendment and explain where the compromise was most evident.

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Question 3

The black codes enacted in the South after the Civil War showed that Southerners

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A)  were willing to allow African Americans equality under law 
B)  sought to maintain African Americans in positions of servility 
C)  recognized the need for providing basic education for African Americans 
D)  would leave the destiny of African Americans up to the African Americans themselves

Question 4

Regarding black suffrage in the South, Andrew Johnson believed that:

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A)  The right to vote should be extended to African Americans through an amendment to the Constitution 
B)  The federal government could never force the Southern states to extend voting rights to African Americans 
C)  The Southern states, before being allowed to re-enter the Union, should guarantee the right to vote to African-American males 
D)  African Americans were not citizens and should not be allowed to vote

Question 5

Contrast the Reconstruction plan advocated by Radical Republicans such as Thaddeus Stevens with the Reconstruction Act of 1867. Why were key elements of the Radical plan not adopted? How might the Radical plan have changed southern society?

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Question 6

After the Civil War, most African-American farmers eventually worked:

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A)  As sharecroppers, paying a portion of their farm proceeds as rent 
B)  As domestic servants in the North 
C)  As hired field hands under a contract for wages from their former masters 
D)  As independent landowners

Question 7

Examine the role played by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government in the national retreat from the commitment to equality for the freedmen.

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Question 8

Discuss the disputed election of 1876. What was at stake? How did it connect to the decade preceding it? How was it resolved? Was the Compromise of 1877 effective?

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Question 9

Trace the evolution of the Congressional Reconstruction plan, and examine the factors that affected the development of this plan.

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Question 10

When sharecropping first originated:

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A)  It allowed African Americans to buy land on credit 
B)  It was forced on African Americans by ruthless landowners 
C)  It gave African Americans freedom from daily supervision by white landowners or overseers 
D)  It was a humanitarian system of poverty relief

Question 11

In an attempt to limit President Johnson's powers and safeguard its own Reconstruction plan, Congress:

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A)  Proposed a constitutional amendment that would strip the president of his veto power 
B)  Established a House committee to approve all candidates for political office in the former Confederate states 
C)  Passed legislation requiring the president to issue military orders through the General of the Army 
D)  Placed responsibility for the appointment of the president's cabinet in the hands of a joint Congressional committee

Question 12

Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery, passed by Congress in 1865?

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A)  Twelfth Amendment 
B)  Thirteenth Amendment 
C)  Fourteenth Amendment 
D)  Fifteenth Amendment

Question 13

What was the result of United States v. Cruikshank?

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A)  The power to protect the equal rights of citizens was left solely to the states. 
B)  All Southern public facilities would be integrated. 
C)  African Americans were protected in the full exercise of their civil rights. 
D)  The right to vote was granted to all property-holding African Americans.

Question 14

In response to the Panic of 1873, many debtors and unemployed workers advocated ____________________.

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A)  easy-money policies, which they hoped would spur economic expansion 
B)  federal monetary grants to freedmen so they could open their own businesses and banks 
C)  a federal loan program to finance industrial development in the South 
D)  federal loans to freedmen so they could buy their own land

Question 15

Although the South lost the Civil War, it was possible that Southern states would gain increased power in Congress when readmitted to the Union because:

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A)  Southern congressmen could use the threat of secession to intimidate Northern representatives 
B)  Southern congressmen would chair the key congressional committees 
C)  The number of Southern states had increased 
D)  For purposes of congressional representation, African Americans would count as a full person rather than as three-fifths of a person

Question 16

The process by which the Republican-controlled Congress sought to make the Reconstruction of ex-Confederate states longer, harsher, and under greater congressional control is called

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A)  Judicial Reconstruction 
B)  Impeachment 
C)  Socially Just Reconstruction 
D)  Congressional Reconstruction

Exam 14: Reconstruction: an Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877