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D.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.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

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