History 101 - United States History to 1877 » 2019 » Chapter 15 Quiz

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Question #1
In 1865, Southern blacks defined “freedom” as
A.   an end to slavery.
B.   All these answers are correct.
C.   independence from white control.
D.   the ability to return to their ancestral homelands.
E.   immediate representation in the U.S. Congress.
Question #2
The Wade-Davis Bill
A.   essentially followed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
B.   denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for 10 years.
C.   quickly became the law of the land.
D.   sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.
E.   was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild.
Question #3
In the 1860s, Black Codes were
A.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
B.   vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
C.   enacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
D.   passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
E.   designed to give whites control over freedmen.
Question #4
The Fourteenth Amendment
A.   ended slavery throughout the United States.
B.   was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
C.   was written in such a way as to appease the woman’s suffrage movement.
D.   gave voting rights to all male Americans.
E.   gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
Question #5
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of
A.   slavery.
B.   suffrage.
C.   cruel and unusual punishment.
D.   income tax.
E.   citizenship.
Question #6
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial,
A.   a majority of senators voted to acquit.
B.   every Senate Republican voted to convict.
C.   Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.
D.   Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.
E.   Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.
Question #7
By the end of Reconstruction,
A.   black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
B.   most Southern black women did field work.
C.   roughly half of all black women were working for wages.
D.   most Southern black women played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women.
E.   most black women did not hold a job.
Question #8
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that
A.   the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
B.   segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.
C.   private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
D.   communities could have schools for whites only, even if there were no schools for blacks.
E.   racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations.”
Question #9
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
A.   won a huge victory.
B.   relied on many of his former military advisors to join his administration.
C.   was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
D.   entered the White House with no political experience.
E.   ran against Republican Reconstruction policies.
Question #10
In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
A.   the loss of black voting rights.
B.   the arguments of Booker T. Washington.
C.   the legality of segregation.
D.   restrictions on black education.
E.   the crime of lynching.

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