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Question #1
In 1865, Southern blacks defined “freedom” as
A.   immediate representation in the U.S. Congress.
B.   All these answers are correct.
C.   the ability to return to their ancestral homelands.
D.   independence from white control.
E.   an end to slavery.
Question #2
The Wade-Davis Bill
A.   quickly became the law of the land.
B.   essentially followed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
C.   denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for 10 years.
D.   was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild.
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.   enacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
C.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
D.   vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
E.   designed to give whites control over freedmen.
Question #4
The Fourteenth Amendment
A.   was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
B.   ended slavery throughout the United States.
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.   income tax.
B.   citizenship.
C.   cruel and unusual punishment.
D.   suffrage.
E.   slavery.
Question #6
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial,
A.   Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.
B.   every Senate Republican voted to convict.
C.   Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.
D.   Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.
E.   a majority of senators voted to acquit.
Question #7
By the end of Reconstruction,
A.   most Southern black women played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women.
B.   black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
C.   most Southern black women did field work.
D.   most black women did not hold a job.
E.   roughly half of all black women were working for wages.
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.   private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
D.   the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
E.   communities could have schools for whites only, even if there were no schools for blacks.
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.   won a huge victory.
D.   was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
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 crime of lynching.
D.   the arguments of Booker T. Washington.
E.   the loss of black voting rights.

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