APUSH 22

The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that

C) after brief jail terms all were pardoned in 1868.

In the postwar South

A) the economy was utterly devastated.

At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners

E) still believed that their view of secession was correct.

Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War

C) came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy.

For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following except

E) that large numbers would move north.

In 1865, Southern

D) blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity.

The "Exodusters" westward mass migration to Kansas finally faltered when

C) steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi.

The greatest achievements of the Freedmen’s Bureau were in

B) education.

The white South viewed the Freedmen’s Bureau as

A) a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.

In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedmen’s Bureau was

E) a meddlesome agency that should be killed.

Andrew Johnson was made Lincoln’s running mate in 1864 because

Johnson was a Democrat and a loyal unionist from a Southern state.

As vice president, Andrew Johnson

advocated states’ rights.

As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as

D) a champion of the poor whites.

Andrew Johnson was named Lincoln’s second-term vice president because

B) he would politically attract War Democrats and pro-Union southerners.

The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated

A) the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress.

In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

A) rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union.

That the Southern states were "conquered provinces" that had completely left the Union and were therefore at the mercy of Congress for readmission was the view of

E) congressional Republicans

President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction

E) aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after a few basic conditions were met. or took away the right to vote from Confederate leaders and wealthy planters.

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

B) ensure a stable and subservient labor supply.

The Black Codes provided for all of the following except

B) voting by blacks

To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that

E) the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War.

For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states’ quick restoration to the Union was that

A) with the black population fully counted, the South would be stronger than ever in national politics.

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was

E) Johnson’s veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen’s Bureau.

(maybe) Congress objected to the readmission of Southern states to the Union under Johnson’s plan because

the states had adopted Black Codes that limited the civil rights of freed slaves; the states had been readmitted without consultation with Congress; many former Confederates were elected to high political office in those states; and it feared that the restored South would be stronger than ever in national politics.

(maybe) The Freedmen’s Bureau was a postwar welfare agency for former slaves and was quite successful at:

providing education for former slaves.

The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was

D) Tennessee.

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

A) citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.

The Fourteenth Amendment

B) prohibited ex-Confederate leaders from holding public office.

In the 1866 congressional elections,

C) voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction.

The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was

C) Johnson’s "soft" treatment of the white South..

(maybe) The basis of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was

Johnson’s "10 percent" governments that had passed severe Black Codes.

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

E) freed slaves must be granted the right to vote.

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when

B) the last federal troops were removed in 1877.

Which of the following was not one of the Reconstruction era constitutional amendments?

A) Twelfth

Many feminist leaders were especially disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it

E) specified for the first time in the Constitution that only males could vote.

(maybe) Congressional Reconstruction hoped to provied basic rights and protection for the former slaves in the South through:

the Military Reconstruction Act, Freedmen’s Bureau Act, 14th Amendment, and Force Acts.

Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to

C) educate them on their civic duties

During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles which included all of the following except

E) voting.

(maybe) Radical Republican leaders in Congress included

Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania; Charles Sumner of Massachusetts; and Hiram Revels of Mississippi.

(maybe) As part of their Reconstruction plan,

radical Republicans originally expected to secure civil rights for freed slaves; punish the planter aristocracy; restructure Southern society; have President Johnson on their side, and use federal power to aid blacks.

(maybe) Reconstruction involved extended

Reconstruction involved extended controversies over readmission of Southern states into the Union,_____ and _____ rights for former slaves, direction and control of the _____ process, and ____ of former Confederate leaders.

controversies over readmission of Southern states into the Union, civil and political rights for former slaves, direction and control of the Reconstruction process, and treatment of former Confederate leaders. civil; political; Reconstruction; treatment.

Which one of the following is least related to the other three?

B) Ku Klux Klan

Radical Reconstruction state governments

B) passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms.

Political corruption during Reconstruction was

C) common in both North and South.

A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was

E) white resentment of the ability and success of black legislators.

(maybe) During Reconstruction, AFrican-American women assumed new political roles which included:

participating in black church life; monitorying state constitutional conventions; participating in political rallies; and organizing mass meetings

(maybe) Most radical Reconstruction regimes in the South:

expanded the legal rights of women; established public school systems; and were troubled by graft and corruption.

Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

D) Intimidating blacks and undermining them politically.

The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his

C) dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act.

In 1867 Secretary of State Seward achieved the Johnson administration’s greatest success in foreign relations when he

C) purchased Alaska from Russia.

All of the following were reasons the Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson except

D) Johnson promised to step down as President.

Reconstruction might have been more successful if

E) Thaddeus Stevens’s radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted.