Question 1

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

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Question 2

The Fourteenth Amendment

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A)  ended slavery throughout the United States.
B)  gave voting rights to all male Americans.
C)  gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
D)  was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
E)  was written in such a way as to appease the woman's suffrage movement.F) All of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 3

"Scalawags" were Southerners who moved north after the Civil War.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v.Ferguson (1896) that

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A)  communities could have schools for whites only if there were no schools for blacks.
B)  the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
C)  racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."
D)  private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
E)  segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.F) B) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 5

In 1865,southern whites defined "freedom" as

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A)  the right to use federal assistance to recover from the Civil War.
B)  controlling their future without northern interference.
C)  the right of southern states to remain outside of the Union.
D)  the removal of freed blacks from their states.
E)  monetary compensation for lost slaves.F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 6

In 1865,southern blacks defined "freedom" as

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A)  independence from white control.
B)  acquiring the legal rights to live as did whites.
C)  land reform.
D)  independence from white control,and land reform.
E)  All these answers are correct.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 7

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

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

Question 8

The Fourteenth Amendment offered the first national definition of ________.

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Question 9

African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

During Reconstruction,there was a dramatic improvement in Southern

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A)  transportation.
B)  education.
C)  industry.
D)  banking.
E)  agriculture.F) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 11

In the 1860s,the Black Codes were

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A)  holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
B)  passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
C)  enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
D)  vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
E)  designed to give whites control over freedmen.F) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 12

Booker T.Washington outlined his basic philosophy in an 1895 speech that has come to be called the ________ Compromise.

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Question 13

After Reconstruction,political power under Southern "Redeemers"

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A)  was very often restricted and conservative.
B)  typically relied on raising taxes for its funding.
C)  increased state services for the poor.
D)  ignored the interests of industrialists.
E)  helped consolidate the "Solid South" for the Republican Party.F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 14

The Alabama claims

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A)  saw the United States refuse to pay Alabama for losses incurred during the Civil War.
B)  involved complaints by the United States against England.
C)  ended an experiment in black landownership.
D)  marked a renewed effort in asserting the rights of states over federal authority.
E)  were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction.F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 15

In what ways did Reconstruction succeed? In what ways did it fail? What has been its legacy?

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Question 16

The Supreme Court generally struck down civil rights laws and upheld black voting rights in the late nineteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny,as white Southerners charged,nor a thoroughgoing reform,as many Northerners hoped.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Ida B.Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ________ in the late nineteenth-century South.

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The answer of Ida B.Wells was a black journalist who...

Question 20

During Reconstruction,regarding land ownership in the South,

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A)  the Freedman's Bureau distributed millions of acres of land to freedmen.
B)  most plantations abandoned during the Civil War remained vacant.
C)  ownership by both whites and blacks increased.
D)  the federal government vigorously acted to confiscate land owned by former Confederates.
E)  ownership by whites declined,while ownership by blacks increased.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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