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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

Resconstructing the Union (1865-1877)

Multiple Choice


1	Abraham Lincoln's plan of reconstruction required:
		A)	50 percent of the adult white males to take the loyalty oath.
		B)	10 percent of the adult white males to take the loyalty oath.
		C)	the abolition of slavery with compensation.
		D)	blacks be given the right to vote.


2	Under the new president Andrew Johnson, presidential reconstruction:
		A)	would implement a harsh program in the South.
		B)	adhered substantially to the views of Congressional leaders.
		C)	made it possible for former high-ranking Confederates to assume positions of power in the reconstructed southern governments.
		D)	never was implemented because Congress passed its own program before Johnson's could go into effect.


3	In May 1868:
		A)	Andrew Johnson became the first president to be removed from office.
		B)	Andrew Johnson resigned from the presidency rather than face certain impeachment and removal.
		C)	the House of Representatives refused to approve articles of impeachment.
		D)	the Senate failed by one vote to convict Andrew Johnson of the impeachment charges filed against him.


4	The African-Americans elected to political offices during Reconstruction:
		A)	were more conservative than the majority of the black population
		B)	overwhelmingly advocated land reform as crucial to true freedom.
		C)	briefly dominated all of the state governments of the former Confederacy.
		D)	tended to be poor, uneducated, and unqualified to hold elective offices.


5	The most important institutions for African-Americans as they tried to establish their own independent family and community life were:
		A)	the Freedmen's Bureau and the Supreme Court.
		B)	the black-controlled state legislatures and the land reform program.
		C)	the sharecropping system and the black codes.
		D)	the schools and the churches.


6	In the years after the Civil War, most freedpeople ended up working:
		A)	as farmers on land they owned.
		B)	as farmers under a sharecropping system
		C)	as wage laborers in the new textile mills.
		D)	as itinerant day laborers in domestic and service jobs.


7	The Freedmen's Bureau courts:
		A)	consistently sided with the planters.
		B)	consistently sided with the freedmen.
		C)	were the most effective means of protecting black economic rights.
		D)	were declared unconstitutional by the federal courts.


8	The Fifteenth Amendment:
		A)	prohibited denying the right to vote on grounds of race.
		B)	enacted women's suffrage.
		C)	forbid literacy tests or property requirements for voting.
		D)	imposed black suffrage only in the South.


9	The Civil Rights Act of 1875:
		A)	eliminated social segregation in the North and in the South.
		B)	never passed Congress despite pressure from President Grant.
		C)	was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant and never went into effect.
		D)	contained provisions for social equality that were later declared unconstitutional.


10	The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan was to:
		A)	keep former slaves from finding jobs.
		B)	force all African-Americans to leave the South.
		C)	help Republican candidates win elections in Southern states.
		D)	destroy the Republican party in the South.


11	The Compromise of 1877:
		A)	provided for a recount of votes in the former Confederate states.
		B)	underscored Republican resolve to continue Reconstruction.
		C)	gave the presidency to Tilden.
		D)	marked the end of Reconstruction.


12	Reconstruction ended:
		A)	despite strong northern sentiments to continue Radical policies.
		B)	without any positive results for African-Americans or the nation.
		C)	in failure because of deep-seated racism in the United States.
		D)	as a success because northern blacks had gained social equality.

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