Download CHAPTER 16 PRACTICE TEST SHORT ANSWER: What actions of

CHAPTER 16 PRACTICE TEST
5.
SHORT ANSWER:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What actions of President Johnson drove Moderate
Republicans in Congress into cooperation with Radical
Republicans?
Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and
some other feminists oppose the 15th amendment?
Why did the Liberal Republicans break with President
Grant? What impact did the split have on Republican
Reconstruction?
Explain how Supreme Court decisions in the 1870s and
1880s undermined Republican Reconstruction.
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877? Which
of the terms were actually carried out after the inauguration
of Rutherford B. Hayes?
a.
b.
c.
d.
6.
Which of the following was not a feature of Lincoln's "10
percent plan"?
a.
b.
c.
d.
b.
c.
d.
2.
The Wade-Davis bill
a.
b.
c.
d.
7.
State governments could be formed when at least 10
percent of those who had voted in 1860 had sworn
allegiance to the Union and accepted emancipation.
Confederate officials needed presidential pardons before
they could participate in the new governments.
Confederate army and naval officers needed presidential
pardons before they could participate in the new
governments.
Southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided
among the blacks who had formerly worked there as
slaves.
b.
c.
d.
8.
a.
b.
Which statement is not true about Andrew Johnson?
a.
b.
c.
d.
He wanted to exclude the planters from political
leadership in the South but then undermined his
intention by granting so many pardons to this group.
He cared deeply about obtaining just treatment for the
freedmen.
He was a lifelong Democrat with no interest in building
the strength of the Republican party.
He vetoed all of the congressional reconstruction acts,
only to have Congress override his vetoes.
d.
9.
The key difference between the Lincoln and Johnson plans for
reconstruction was that, unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan
a.
b.
c.
d.
barred from political participation any ex-Confederate
with taxable property worth $20,000 or more.
excluded freedmen from participating in the new
reconstruction governments.
required that southerners take oaths of allegiance to the
United States.
was designed to bring the southern states back into the
Union as quickly as possible.
a precedent was established against the impeachment of
presidents solely on political grounds.
Johnson was acquitted and emerged triumphant in his
battle with the Radicals in Congress.
the president was convicted, dismissed from office, and
replaced by Ulysses S. Grant.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress at last found a
cause around which they all could rally.
The Fifteenth Amendment
a.
b.
c.
4.
drafting of new constitutions by southern states,
approved by Congress, granting black suffrage.
ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by southern
states.
incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment into the
federal Constitution.
preparation of plans devised by southern state
legislatures to finance veterans' benefits for former
Confederate soldiers.
As a result of the impeachment and trial of President Andrew
Johnson,
c.
3.
citizenship in both the nation and its states for all
persons born or naturalized in the United States.
the guaranteed right to vote for male blacks.
loss of representation in Congress for states that denied
qualified citizens the right to vote.
disqualification from state and national office of all
prewar officeholders.
According to the Reconstruction Act of 1867, all of the
following conditions had to be met so that former Confederate
states could be readmitted to the Union except the
a.
was pocket-vetoed by President Lincoln.
provided that each former Confederate state would be
ruled by a military governor.
was much stricter than Lincoln’s 10 percent plan.
all of these
all southern states had ratified the Thirteenth
Amendment and repudiated their Confederate debts.
most southern states had passed special industrial codes
to help the freedmen become economically independent.
former Confederate congressmen, state officials, and
generals had been elected to serve in Congress
southern states were moving toward rebellion and
secession once again.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution included all of
the following provisions except
a.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1.
By the end of 1865, under President Johnson's reconstruction
policies,
d.
defines citizenship and requires states to extend to all
persons equal protection under the law.
states that no one shall be denied the right to vote
because of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
extends the suffrage to all citizens over twenty-one years
of age.
gives Congress the power to deny seats in the House to
states that do not allow black men to vote.
10.
Why did the battle over black suffrage ultimately divide the
women's rights movement?
a.
b.
c.
d.
11.
b.
c.
d.
16.
b.
the Republicans were able to establish a permanent
political base in previously hostile territory.
it was accomplished without the use of military force.
the former ruling elite transformed its attitudes about
race relations.
former slaves participated in the new governments.
Which of the following descriptions best fits the
carpetbaggers?
b.
c.
d.
former Union soldiers who hoped to buy land, open
factories, build railroads, or enjoy a warmer climate
northerners who went South seeking wealth and power,
and who came with so few possessions that they could
be stuffed into traveling bags made of carpet material
predominantly poor and ignorant white southerners who
sought to profit from Republican rule
uneducated freedmen who moved to northern cities for
better economic opportunity, and who took with them
only what they could fit in a traveling bag
c.
d.
17.
b.
c.
d.
a.
b.
c.
d.
former slaveholders who opposed the reconstruction
governments.
advocates of black rights and black suffrage in the
reconstructed southern states.
sharecroppers who constituted the rank-and-file of the
new Ku Klux Klan.
none of these
19.
a.
b.
c.
d.
creation of public school systems.
institution of ambitious programs of public works.
land confiscation and more equitable redistribution.
expansion of state bureaucracies and increased salaries
for state employees.
b.
c.
d.
20.
Jay Gould
whiskey ring
Crédit Mobilier
Seward's Ice Box
What doctrine did the Supreme Court enunciate in the
Slaughterhouse cases of 1873?
a.
The accomplishments of the new government established
under congressional Reconstruction included all of the
following conditions except
contributed to soil depletion, agricultural backwardness,
and southern poverty.
reduced the portion of southern land owned and
controlled by the planter elite.
forced most black people out of agriculture and into
southern cities.
tied white planters and black tenants together
economically, but had no effect on white small farmers.
Which of the following is not associated with "Grantism"?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The scalawags were
The influx of African American voters enabled the
Republican party to win control of city government.
Its diverse economy based on transportation and
manufacturing boomed.
Devastated by war, the population declined for the rest
of the century.
Migration of African Americans to Chicago enabled
Atlanta to become a largely white city.
The sharecropping and crop-lien systems that developed in the
post-Civil War South
a.
18.
Most blacks lacked the capital to buy the land and
equipment.
White southerners did not want to sell their land to
blacks.
Southern industrialists needed laborers to work in their
new urban factories.
Neither Congress nor the states imposed large-scale land
reform.
In what sense did postwar Atlanta symbolize the “New
South”?
a.
a.
14.
a.
a.
d.
13.
Which of the following was not one of the reasons why only a
small proportion of blacks were able to own their own farms
by the end of Reconstruction?
The unique achievement of congressional Reconstruction was
that
b.
c.
12.
A large part of the women's rights movement did not
believe that a constitutional amendment was necessary
in order to gain the vote.
Half of the movement advocated focusing on the rights
of black women, while the other half emphasized that
first priority should be on the rights of black men.
Some advocates of women's rights refused to support
black suffrage without attendant woman suffrage.
The women's rights movement had always avoided the
debate over slavery, and many now feared being drawn
into the new debate over black rights.
15.
Where civil courts were functioning, civilians could not
be tried by military courts or commissions.
Congress had the power to ensure each state a republican
form of government.
The federal government was obliged to protect only
basic rights of national citizenship, and it did not have to
protect such rights against state violation.
The Fifteenth Amendment did not confer the right of
suffrage upon anyone.
Most historians today view Radical Reconstruction as a
democratic experiment that failed because it
a.
b.
c.
d.
left blacks without property so that they were
economically unable to defend their political rights.
relied on excessive military force instead of political
persuasion.
was unrealistic in its expectation that illiterate blacks
could be turned into responsible citizens overnight.
was overly vindictive and harsh toward all white
southerners.