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Question #1
In 1865, Southern blacks defined “freedom” as
A.   All these answers are correct.
B.   immediate representation in the U.S. Congress.
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.   was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild.
B.   sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.
C.   quickly became the law of the land.
D.   denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for 10 years.
E.   essentially followed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
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B.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.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.   passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
E.   vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
Question #4
The Fourteenth Amendment
A.   was written in such a way as to appease the woman’s suffrage movement.
B.   was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
C.   ended slavery throughout the United States.
D.   gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
E.   gave voting rights to all male Americans.
Question #5
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of
A.   income tax.
B.   slavery.
C.   suffrage.
D.   citizenship.
E.   cruel and unusual punishment.
Question #6
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial,
A.   a majority of senators voted to acquit.
B.   every Senate Republican voted to convict.
C.   Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.
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 black women did not hold a job.
B.   black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
C.   roughly half of all black women were working for wages.
D.   most Southern black women did field work.
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.   private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
C.   segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.
D.   the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
E.   racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations.”
Question #9
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
A.   won a huge victory.
B.   entered the White House with no political experience.
C.   relied on many of his former military advisors to join his administration.
D.   ran against Republican Reconstruction policies.
E.   was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
Question #10
In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
A.   the arguments of Booker T. Washington.
B.   the crime of lynching.
C.   the loss of black voting rights.
D.   restrictions on black education.
E.   the legality of segregation.

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