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Question #1
In 1865, Southern blacks defined “freedom” as
A.   the ability to return to their ancestral homelands.
B.   All these answers are correct.
C.   an end to slavery.
D.   independence from white control.
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.   quickly became the law of the land.
C.   essentially followed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
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.   enacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
B.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
C.   designed to give whites control over freedmen.
D.   vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
E.   passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
Question #4
The Fourteenth Amendment
A.   gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
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.   was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Question #5
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of
A.   cruel and unusual punishment.
B.   income tax.
C.   slavery.
D.   suffrage.
E.   citizenship.
Question #6
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial,
A.   Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.
B.   Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.
C.   Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.
D.   a majority of senators voted to acquit.
E.   every Senate Republican voted to convict.
Question #7
By the end of Reconstruction,
A.   black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
B.   most Southern black women did field work.
C.   most black women did not hold a job.
D.   roughly half of all black women were working for wages.
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.   the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
B.   private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
C.   racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations.”
D.   communities could have schools for whites only, even if there were no schools for blacks.
E.   segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.
Question #9
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
A.   won a huge victory.
B.   was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
C.   entered the White House with no political experience.
D.   ran against Republican Reconstruction policies.
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.   the crime of lynching.
B.   the loss of black voting rights.
C.   the legality of segregation.
D.   restrictions on black education.
E.   the arguments of Booker T. Washington.

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