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B.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.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

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