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.   an end to slavery.
B.   independence from white control.
C.   the ability to return to their ancestral homelands.
D.   immediate representation in the U.S. Congress.
E.   All these answers are correct.
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.   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.   designed to give whites control over freedmen.
B.   enacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
C.   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
D.   passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
E.   vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
Question #4
The Fourteenth Amendment
A.   gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
B.   was written in such a way as to appease the woman’s suffrage movement.
C.   gave voting rights to all male Americans.
D.   was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
E.   ended slavery throughout the United States.
Question #5
The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of
A.   cruel and unusual punishment.
B.   slavery.
C.   income tax.
D.   citizenship.
E.   suffrage.
Question #6
At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial,
A.   Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.
B.   every Senate Republican voted to convict.
C.   Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.
D.   a majority of senators voted to acquit.
E.   Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.
Question #7
By the end of Reconstruction,
A.   most Southern black women played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women.
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.   black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
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.   segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.
C.   the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
D.   racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations.”
E.   private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
Question #9
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
A.   relied on many of his former military advisors to join his administration.
B.   was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
C.   entered the White House with no political experience.
D.   won a huge victory.
E.   ran against Republican Reconstruction policies.
Question #10
In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking
A.   restrictions on black education.
B.   the crime of lynching.
C.   the arguments of Booker T. Washington.
D.   the legality of segregation.
E.   the loss of black voting rights.

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