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Chapter 4 Test (Take Home)
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Reconstruction referred to
a. tearing down crumbling buildings and starting over again.
b. rebuilding the South and reuniting the nation.
c. fixing up problems in the North.
d. changing laws in the South.
2. The Thirteenth Amendment
a. gave freed slaves the right to vote.
b. banned secession.
c. abolished slavery.
d. allowed southerners back into the Union.
3. The Black Codes were written to
a. limit the freedom of former slaves.
b. protect former slaves.
c. increase the rights of former slaves.
d. free northern slaves.
4. Former Confederates called southern whites who had supported the Union cause and now were in
favor of Reconstruction
a. scalawags.
c. abolitionists.
b. carpetbaggers.
d. secessionists.
5. A former slave who became an abolitionist and adviser to President Andrew Johnson on race relations
was
a. Booker T. Washington.
c. Frederick Douglass.
b. Thaddeus Stevens.
d. James Madison Wells.
6. Which of the following statements about the South following the Civil War is NOT true?
a. Most of the people died from illnesses.
b. Thousand of people were jobless.
c. The economy was in shambles.
d. Countless buildings lay in ruins.
7. In the 1876 presidential election, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes ran against Democratic candidate
a. Robert E. Lee.
c. Samuel J. Tilden.
b. Thaddeus Stevens.
d. Charles Sumner.
8. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by
a. Andrew Johnson.
c. Thaddeus Stevens.
b. John Wilkes Booth.
d. Ulysses S. Grant.
9. Which of the following statements concerning land reform during Reconstruction is NOT true?
a. Some freedpeople believed they would receive forty acres and a mule.
b. Some people took advantage of African Americans’ desire for land after the war.
c. Freedpeople did not receive land from the federal government.
d. Freedpeople received land from the federal government after the war.
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10. The first Civil Rights Act in the history of the United States was the
a. Civil Rights Act of 1866.
c. Civil Rights Act of 1875.
b. Fourteenth Amendment.
d. Fifteenth Amendment.
11. African Americans first won the right to vote in
a. Mississippi.
c. the territories of the United States.
b. the District of Columbia.
d. Illinois.
12. Which of the following was NOT one of the terms included in the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
a. The former Confederacy was divided into five military districts.
b. States were to submit new constitutions guaranteeing all people the vote.
c. States were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
d. African Americans were to be able to vote for and serve as delegates to state
constitutional conventions.
13. Which of the following statements about African American involvement in state constitutional
conventions is NOT true?
a. African American delegates outnumbered white delegates in Louisiana and South
Carolina.
b. African American delegates composed from 10 to 40 percent of the delegates in
other states.
c. African Americans had no interest in becoming delegates for state constitutional
conventions.
d. Most of the African American delegates were southerners; however, northerners also
participated.
14. Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning Andrew Johnson?
a. He was a Democrat.
b. He was once a slaveholder.
c. He was a master at political compromise.
d. He held pro-Union sympathies.
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
a. prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against African
Americans.
b. declared that everyone born in the United States was a citizen with full rights.
c. required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people born
or naturalized in the United States.
d. extended the right to vote to African American men.
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Completion
Complete each sentence or statement.
Choose from the following list to complete each of the statements below.
Reconstruction Acts
land reform
crop-lien system
Edwin Stanton
Ulysses S. Grant
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Samuel J. Tilden
Republicans
Rutherford B. Hayes
Ku Klux Klan
Ida B. Wells
Union League
vote
Madame C. J. Walker
economy
segregation
poll taxes
Andrew Johnson
conspiracy
Jim Crow laws
race riots
Booker T. Washington
impeached
cooperatives
Horatio Seymour
South
Democrats
16. When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the vice president was
_________________________.
17. Although he had no political experience at all, Civil War hero _________________________ was
elected president in 1868.
18. ______________________________ beat his opponent by only one electoral vote in the presidential
race of 1876.
19. A civil rights activist and journalist, _________________________ brought attention to the
lynchings of African Americans in the South.
20. In spite of ____________________, a growing African American middle class began to emerge in
some southern cities.
21. ____________________, such as the one in Memphis in which 46 African Americans were killed,
were becoming increasingly common in the South during Reconstruction.
22. The ______________________________, passed by Congress in 1867, divided the South into five
military districts that were to be patrolled by the Union army.
23. In 1868 President Andrew Johnson was ____________________ by the House but acquitted by the
Senate.
24. President Lincoln issued the ________________________________________ at the end of the
Civil War.
25. Supporters of ____________________ called for breaking up the large plantations and dividing
them up between the slaves.
26. After President Andrew Johnson removed Secretary of War _________________________ from
office, the House voted to impeach the president.
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27. African Americans voting for the first time in a presidential election supported the
____________________.
28. The _________________________, a political group, provided a place for African Americans to
develop their political skills.
29. The ______________________________ made it impossible for African American farmers to earn a
decent living.
30. To boost its ____________________ after the war, the South began to build factories and railroads.
31. Literacy tests and ____________________ were instituted by southern legislatures to deprive
African Americans of the right to vote.
32. The _________________________ were written to increase segregation in the South.
33. African Americans in the South sometimes formed ____________________ to establish and buy
businesses.
34. _________________________ was one of the first female millionaires in the United States.
35. _________________________ and Ida B. Wells disagreed on how African Americans should
respond to discrimination.
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement.
a. Union League
b. carpetbaggers
c. segregation
d. Fourteenth Amendment
e. Abraham Lincoln
f. Ulysses S. Grant
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Compromise of 1877
Andrew Johnson
Juneteenth
Rutherford B. Hayes
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Thaddeus Stevens
presidential candidate who defeated Samuel J. Tilden in the election of 1876
political group that built schools and churches for African Americans and helped care for the sick
legislation passed by Congress so that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 could not be repealed
an African American celebration of Emancipation Day
white and African American Republicans from the northern United States who traveled south to
attend state constitutional conventions
led to the removal of federal troops in the South
president who issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
president of the United States after Andrew Johnson
the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
the separation of the races
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Chapter 4 Test (Take Home)
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