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C.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.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

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