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Question #1
In 1865, Southern blacks defined “freedom” as
A.   immediate representation in the U.S. Congress.
B.   an end to slavery.
C.   independence from white control.
D.   All these answers are correct.
E.   the ability to return to their ancestral homelands.
Question #2
The Wade-Davis Bill
A.   denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for 10 years.
B.   sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.
C.   essentially followed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
D.   was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild.
E.   quickly became the law of the land.
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C.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.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.   ended slavery throughout the United States.
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 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.   suffrage.
B.   citizenship.
C.   cruel and unusual punishment.
D.   income tax.
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.   a majority of senators voted to acquit.
C.   every Senate Republican voted to convict.
D.   Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.
E.   Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.
Question #7
By the end of Reconstruction,
A.   most Southern black women did field work.
B.   most Southern black women played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women.
C.   roughly half of all black women were working for wages.
D.   most black women did not hold a job.
E.   black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
Question #8
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that
A.   segregation by race in education was inherently 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.   the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
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.   won a huge victory.
D.   relied on many of his former military advisors to join his administration.
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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