Question 1

The South emerged from the Civil War with a strong, diversified economy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Advocates of "soft-money" or paper currency:

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A)   tended to be merchants and bankers
B)   saw economic benefits in price inflation
C)   urged the elimination of greenbacks
D)   dominated the Grant administration
E)   wanted to cancel the national debt

Question 3

Why did southern Democrats agree to the Compromise of 1877?

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A)   It gave the Democrats the White House for the first time since before the Civil War.
B)   It permitted the Democrats to gain control of the Senate.
C)   It ensured the last federal troops would be withdrawn from Louisiana and South Carolina.
D)   It restored slavery.
E)   It recognized the rights of states to secede.

Question 4

Defeat in the war made southern whites less religious.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The Republican-dominated Congress succeeded in centralizing national power by the end of the Civil War.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Describe the plans for Reconstruction offered by Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Congress. What was the goal of each plan? How did each plan propose to accomplish its goal?

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Question 7

Johnson's Proclamation of Amnesty excluded the people he blamed for leading the South into secession. They were:

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A)   the wealthy planters, merchants, and bankers
B)   the freedmen
C)   the small farmers
D)   the British
E)   Northern industrialists

Question 8

All of the following are reasons why Republicans lost control in the South EXCEPT:

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A)   electoral fraud
B)   white supremacist violence
C)   the panic of 1873
D)   the growing weakness of Grant's administration
E)   black voters switched to support the Democrats

Question 9

What state was the only one in the nation that did not ratify all three constitutional amendments related to ending slavery (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth) ?

Accepted Answer

A)   Virginia
B)   Massachusetts
C)   Kentucky
D)   Texas
E)   New Jersey

Question 10

The primary objective of the Ku Klux Klan was:

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A)   national unity
B)   upholding southern honor
C)   starting a new civil war
D)   oppressing blacks and white Republicans
E)   raising money for Confederate widows

Question 11

The main issue that caused the dispute between Congress and President Johnson was:

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A)   Johnson's role in Lincoln's assassination
B)   Johnson's past service as a Confederate soldier
C)   a growing conflict of opinion over Reconstruction policy
D)   Congress's insistence that Johnson stole the presidency
E)   the House's impeachment of Johnson

Question 12

Most scalawags were white southerners who had:

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A)   owned slaves
B)   served in the Union army
C)   changed their minds about race relations
D)   become educated
E)   opposed secession

Question 13

During Reconstruction, African Americans

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A)   passively awaited developments
B)   attempted to establish schools
C)   normally joined integrated churches
D)   terrorized their former masters
E)   refused to work for wages

Question 14

After the war, rumors swept the South that ex-slaves would receive:

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A)   free public education
B)   positions in all levels of government
C)   an official apology from the U.S. government for centuries of oppression
D)   forty acres and a mule
E)   the confiscated weapons of Confederate soldiers

Question 15

Many former Confederates resented the new state Constitutions imposed by Radical Republicans because:

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A)   all former Confederates were denied the right to vote
B)   their provisions allowed for black voting and civil rights
C)   former Confederates were uniformly banned from holding any public office
D)   their provisions granted universal female suffrage
E)   state governments were dismantled and replaced by direct federal administration

Question 16

In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans promised to withdraw federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

By the time President Grant took office, southern resistance to the Reconstruction efforts had:

Accepted Answer

A)   dissipated
B)   led to a withdrawal of federal financial support
C)   turned violent
D)   taken on a peaceful approach
E)   renewed the civil war

Question 18

During Reconstruction, all of the following are true about African American involvement in the political arena during Reconstruction EXCEPT:

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A)   their lack of education and inexperience in politics put them at a disadvantage
B)   within a few years of the end of the Civil War, former slaves were voting in large numbers
C)   several African Americans were elected as governors
D)   few African Americans served as judges
E)   in the new state governments, African American participation was a novelty

Question 19

In South Carolina, the fact that lower-class whites enjoyed unprecedented political power under Radical Republican rule:

Accepted Answer

A)   generated unexpected support for the Radical Reconstruction among southern white elites
B)   resulted in a rebellion that overthrew the reconstructed South Carolina state government
C)   enabled the state legislature to reinstitute legal slavery
D)   helped keep corruption from becoming a problem in the state government
E)   led many former Confederate leaders to oppose the Radical state legislature

Question 20

Democrats generally favored "sound" or "hard" monetary policies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 17: Reconstruction: North and South

By the time President Grant took office, southern resistance to the Reconstruction efforts had:

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Defeat in the war made southern whites less religious.

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What state was the only one in the nation that did not ratify all three constitutional amendments related to ending slavery (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth) ?

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The primary objective of the Ku Klux Klan was:

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The main issue that caused the dispute between Congress and President Johnson was:

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Advocates of "soft-money" or paper currency:

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During Reconstruction, all of the following are true about African American involvement in the political arena during Reconstruction EXCEPT:

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In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans promised to withdraw federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.

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Describe the plans for Reconstruction offered by Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Congress. What was the goal of each plan? How did each plan propose to accomplish its goal?

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Why did southern Democrats agree to the Compromise of 1877?

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During Reconstruction, African Americans

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Democrats generally favored "sound" or "hard" monetary policies.

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Johnson's Proclamation of Amnesty excluded the people he blamed for leading the South into secession. They were:

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After the war, rumors swept the South that ex-slaves would receive:

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The South emerged from the Civil War with a strong, diversified economy.

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Most scalawags were white southerners who had:

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In South Carolina, the fact that lower-class whites enjoyed unprecedented political power under Radical Republican rule:

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All of the following are reasons why Republicans lost control in the South EXCEPT:

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Many former Confederates resented the new state Constitutions imposed by Radical Republicans because:

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The Republican-dominated Congress succeeded in centralizing national power by the end of the Civil War.

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