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11) As the Allstons began to reestablish their lives after the Civil War they found that
A) all of their former slaves had fled from their plantations.
B) new relationships would have to be established with their former slaves.
C) the blacks had taken control of southern society.
D) it would be fairly simple to reestablish the old patterns of society.
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B
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12) In trying to establish a policy for reconstruction of the South after the Civil War
A) Congress readily agreed with Lincoln’s plan.
B) Congress rejected Lincoln’s plan.
C) a conflict arose between Congress and the president about which had authority in the matter.
D) Johnson finally forced Congress to adopt his plan.
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C
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13) In 1865 at the end of the Civil War, the Democratic party
A) ruled victoriously over the government of the United States.
B) represented an uneasy alliance of former Whigs and Know-Nothings.
C) depicted the Republicans as a group of rebels and traitors.
D) was in shambles organizationally.
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D
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14) In 1865 at the end of the Civil War, the southern states
A) contrasted starkly with the economic prosperity of the northern states.
B) had been affected only slightly by the war, either socially or economically.
C) quickly reestablished an industrial-based economy.
D) readily accepted whatever reconstruction policy the North suggested.
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A
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15) At the end of the Civil War emancipated blacks
A) immediately achieved full equality with southern whites.
B) mostly remained on the plantations where they had been slaves.
C) often changed their manners toward whites to demonstrate their freedom.
D) received ownership of forty acres of land.
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C
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16) In the years immediately following emancipation the freedmen
A) showed little interest in establishing a traditional family life.
B) showed little interest in acquiring an education.
C) preferred to work in gangs.
D) considered securing jobs and land their primary goals.
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D
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17) In the months immediately after the Civil War the dominant emotion among southern whites was
A) sorrow. B) fear. C) acceptance of blacks as equals. D) anger toward plantation owners.
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B
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18) During the Reconstruction Era the "black codes"
A) guaranteed freedmen full political and civil rights.
B) reestablished slavery.
C) desegregated southern society.
D) restricted the economic opportunities of the freedmen.
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D
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19) Andrew Johnson’s plan for national reconstruction
A) proved to be very lenient toward the South.
B) called for harsh treatment of the South.
C) defended the interest of the planter class.
D) pleased the Republican leadership in Congress.
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A
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20) All of the following were goals of the Northern "Radical" Republicans EXCEPT
A) remaking the South in the image of the North.
B) inflict political punishment on Confederate leaders.
C) create greater diversity in the southern economy.
D) help freed men make the transition to full freedom.
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C
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21) The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
A) joined Democrats and Republicans in a shared cause.
B) gained considerable support from President Johnson.
C) generated little controversy; all Americans endorsed it.
D) became the central issue of the midterm election because Johnson spoke against Republicans and Democrats appealed to voters’ prejudices.
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D
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22) The election of 1866 was critical in determining the outcome of Reconstruction because
A) the president won great support from the people.
B) the Democrats won a majority in Congress.
C) the Republicans won an overwhelming victory.
D) the Republicans were defeated in the election.
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C
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23) In the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Congress
A) endorsed President Johnson’s plan for reconstruction.
B) provided for impeachment of the president.
C) divided the southern states into five military districts.
D) allowed southern states to deny blacks the right to vote.
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C
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24) Congress impeached President Johnson for
A) violating the Tenure of Office Act.
B) permitting blacks to vote.
C) the Credit Mobilier scandals.
D) refusing to remove Secretary of War Stanton from office.
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A
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25) During the Reconstruction period northerners
A) enthusiastically endorsed the idea of black equality.
B) opposed granting citizenship to blacks.
C) only reluctantly supported the idea of giving blacks the right to vote.
D) generally wanted to confiscate the property of southern whites and give it to the blacks.
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C
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26) Chief among those who wanted to provide economic support for the freedmen after the Civil War was
A) U. S. Grant. B) Thaddeus Stevens.
C) Andrew Johnson. D) Abraham Lincoln.
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B
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27) In an overall analysis Congressional Reconstruction for the freedmen
A) provided blacks with an excellent foundation for the future.
B) provided little economic security.
C) provided economic, but not political opportunities.
D) attracted widespread support among southern whites.
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B
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28) During the Reconstruction Era the movement for women’s suffrage
A) was very successful.
B) was achieved by passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
C) led to a split in the women’s movement.
D) was supported by a majority in Congress.
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C
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29) In providing aid to the blacks after the Civil War the Freedman’s Bureau
A) was a total failure.
B) was characterized by mixed success.
C) was generally unconcerned with black needs.
D) concentrated on helping poor whites instead of blacks
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B
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30) At the end of the Reconstruction period southern blacks in general,
A) had gained effective economic independence from southern whites.
B) had mostly migrated to the North.
C) dominated southern politics.
D) remained economically dependent on southern whites.
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D
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31) During the Reconstruction period southern tenant farmers
A) found it easy to gain ownership of their own land.
B) seldom earned much money and fell into debt.
C) generally grew almost all of what they needed for survival.
D) united to confiscate the property of the landowners.
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B
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32) During Reconstruction poor blacks and poor whites in the South
A) often achieved economic independence from their creditors.
B) largely owned their own farmland.
C) found economic independence through the tenant farming system.
D) often became sharecroppers.
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D
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33) During the Reconstruction Era poor white southerners
A) escaped from the tenant farming system.
B) effectively combined with poor blacks to achieve political control of the southern state governments.
C) tended to accept the blacks as their social equals.
D) generally embraced an emotional and revivalistic religion.
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D
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34) In an attempt to improve their condition after freedom blacks during the Reconstruction period
A) relied exclusively on the Freedman’s Bureau.
B) often worked through their churches.
C) placed little emphasis on education.
D) encountered little white opposition to their educational efforts.
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B
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35) After the Civil War as far as education was concerned, blacks
A) showed a thirst for knowledge.
B) showed little interest in formal learning.
C) had a higher percentage of school attendance than whites.
D) found most southern whites supportive of their desire to learn.
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A
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36) In the late nineteenth century the black leader who continued to press for full citizenship rights for blacks in the United States was
A) Benjamin "Pap" Singleton. B) Frederick Douglass.
C) Thaddeus Stevens. D) Felix Haywood.
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A
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37) The Republican governments that controlled the southern states during Reconstruction were
A) dominated by illiterate blacks.
B) usually more corrupt than state governments in the North.
C) generally accepted by most white southerners.
D) supported by some white southerners.
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D
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38) During the period of Reconstruction black political leaders in the South
A) were more corrupt than white politicians.
B) rejected American political traditions.
C) often supported land policies that ignored the needs of black masses.
D) generally opposed increased state expenditures.
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C
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39) Republican rule of the state governments in the South during Reconstruction
A) led to black control of those governments.
B) allowed blacks to take revenge on their former white masters.
C) reflected black desires to establish socialism in the South.
D) led to some desirable reforms.
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D
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40) In attempting to regain control of the southern state governments during Reconstruction southern Democrats
A) allied with local black leaders.
B) opposed tactics used by the Ku Klux Klan.
C) often resorted to violence.
D) allied with white Republicans.
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C
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41) During the Grant administration the Republicans
A) lost interest in defending black voting rights in the South.
B) increased their support for black voting rights in the South.
C) did nothing to try to suppress the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
D) endorsed the Mississippi Plan.
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A
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42) During and after the Civil War the Republican party
A) opposed passage of the Homestead Act.
B) supported policies that favored economic growth.
C) opposed freedom of the slaves.
D) favored President Johnson’s plan for reconstruction.
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B
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43) As a political leader President Grant could best be described as
A) personally corrupt.
B) dynamic.
C) effective.
D) often lacking in his judgment of others.
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D
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44) A major scandal of the Grant Administration concerning railroad construction was the
A) Credit Mobilier. B) Whiskey Ring.
C) Teapot Dome. D) Tweed Ring.
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B
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45) In the disputed election of 1876 the Republicans succeeded in obtaining congressional approval for Hayes’s election by
A) threatening to filibuster.
B) threatening to renew the Civil War.
C) preventing southern representatives from taking their seats in Congress.
D) promising to support federal aid for southern railroad development.
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D
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46) Johnson revealed his hatred of the southern aristocracy by requiring individual pardons. Aristocracy refers to
A) a group of freed blacks.
B) a situation where all people generally have the same social position.
C) a small privileged class.
D) a government controlled by a dictator.
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C
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47) President Johnson’s opposition to Congress’s plan for reconstruction forced moderate members of Congress into the radical camp. A radical is a person who
A) attempts to take a balanced view of all sides of an issue.
B) approaches a problem with considerable restraint.
C) advocates sweeping changes.
D) opposes the democratic process.
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C
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48) The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution guaranteed suffrage rights to blacks. Suffrage refers to
A) the right to free speech. B) the right to vote.
C) the right to a trial by jury. D) the right to bear arms.
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B
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49) "Exodusters" refers to
A) those blacks who migrated to northern cities after the Civil War.
B) southern tenants who became dusty from working in the cotton fields.
C) white southerners who left the South because they feared black hostility toward whites after emancipation.
D) blacks who attempted to migrate to Kansas after they were emancipated.
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D
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50) In the history of Reconstruction "redemption" refers to
A) the period of Republican control of the southern state governments.
B) salvation of the southern blacks by the Freedmen’s Bureau.
C) recapture of control of the southern state governments by conservative white Democrats.
D) southern religious beliefs.
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C
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