Question 1

Advocates of the "New South"

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A)   discouraged white women from working outside of the home.
B)   promoted southern industry and railroad development.
C)   opposed using northern capital.
D)   challenged the assumptions of white supremacy.
E)   in fact advocated a return to the plantation system of the antebellum South.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

Booker T.Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self-improvement before political rights.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Describe and compare the status of Southern African Americans in 1861 with their status in 1876.

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Question 4

The Freedmen's Bureau

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A)   was created to operate for only five years.
B)   pushed for voting rights for former male slaves.
C)   created millions of federal public works jobs for former slaves.
D)   gave forty acres of land and a mule to millions of Southern blacks.
E)   distributed food to millions of former slaves.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 5

Why did the elections of 1866 empower Radical Republicans?

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Question 6

In 1865,Southern whites defined "freedom" as

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A)   the removal of freed blacks from their states.
B)   controlling their future without Northern interference.
C)   monetary compensation for lost slaves.
D)   the right of Southern states to remain outside of the Union.
E)   the right to use federal assistance to recover from the Civil War.F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 7

After the Civil War,most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from

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A)   Northern financial institutions.
B)   the federal government.
C)   country stores.
D)   state governments.
E)   local banks.F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 8

The Panic of 1873

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A)   saw Republicans call on Grant to go off the gold standard.
B)   began after the Southern crop-lien system collapsed.
C)   was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.
D)   began after revelations of corruption in the Grant administration.
E)   saw President Grant favor putting more paper currency into circulation.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 9

Why would the legacy of Reconstruction matter throughout the twentieth century?

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Question 10

At the end of the Civil War,the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was

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A)   about 2.5 million.
B)   about 3.5 million.
C)   about 800,000.
D)   about 1 million.
E)   about 6 million.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 11

In 1865,Southern blacks defined "freedom" as

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A)   independence from white control.
B)   All these answers are correct.
C)   immediate representation in the U.S. Congress.
D)   an end to slavery.
E)   the ability to return to their ancestral homelands.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 12

In 1867,congressional plans for Reconstruction

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A)   required that state legislatures ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
B)   required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.
C)   replaced federal military commanders in the South with civilian leaders.
D)   granted forty acres of land to every adult male former slave.
E)   were rejected by every former Confederate state.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

The Wade-Davis Bill

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A)   denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for 10 years.
B)   was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild.
C)   quickly became the law of the land.
D)   sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.
E)   essentially followed President Lincoln's Reconstruction plans.F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 14

"Seward's Folly" refers to a financial scandal involving Grant's secretary of state,William Seward.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

By the end of Reconstruction,

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A)   black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
B)   most black women did not hold a job.
C)   most Southern black women played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women.
D)   most Southern black women did field work.
E)   roughly half of all black women were working for wages.F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 16

In the South as a whole,the percentage of black officeholders during Reconstruction was always far lower than the percentage of blacks in the population.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Compare the conditions of African Americans living in the South in the 1850s with those of the 1870s.

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Question 18

In the final days of the Civil War,President Abraham Lincoln

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A)   called on the Confederacy to negotiate a peace treaty with the United States.
B)   argued it best to readmit the Confederate states to the Union without condition.
C)   declared that the Confederate government must repudiate its constitution.
D)   met with Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia.
E)   insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.F) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 19

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached? Did he deserve to be removed from office?

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Question 20

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

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A)   they were hampered by the fact that no thought had been given to the task until the end of the war.
B)   Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.
C)   Conservatives sought many conditions to readmit the former Confederate states.
D)   President Lincoln suggested that no conditions be put on the former Confederate states.
E)   moderates believed the South should be readmitted without any concessions on black rights.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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