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D.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.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

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