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Practice test Chapter 17
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. The main goal of Reconstruction was to
a. establish a new national government following the Civil War.
b. provide newly freed slaves with land and money.
c. readmit the former Confederate states into the Union.
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2. The Freedmen’s Bureau was a/an
a. organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.
b. organization made up of a group of newly freed African Americans.
c. group designed to aid Reconstruction by building the economy of the South.
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3. What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans?
a. It gave African Americans the same economic opportunities as white Americans.
b. It gave African American citizens the right to vote.
c. It provided African Americans with a future free from slavery.
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4. How did the Freedmen’s Bureau affect education for freed slaves in the South?
a. It established more schools and increased efforts to educate freed slaves.
b. It created scholarship programs that allowed freed slaves to attend college.
c. It established integrated schools for freed slaves and poor whites to attend.
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5. Lincoln’s main vision for Reconstruction was to
a. quickly return the South to its previous way of life.
b. reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible.
c. see freed slaves living as equals with their white counterparts.
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6. How did Reconstruction affect the social structure of the South?
a. African Americans were recognized as equals under the laws of southern
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governments.
b. African Americans began to demand the same economic and political rights as
whites.
c. African Americans received free plots of land from southern planters who were
forced to give up land.
7. President Andrew Johnson’s plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials was to
a. have them pay off Confederate debts.
b. grant them amnesty through presidential pardons.
c. make them federal representatives.
8. President Johnson’s administration went about setting up new southern governments by
a. allowing elections of state and federal representatives.
b. appointing Union generals as governors.
c. banning Confederate officials from public positions.
9. Southern governments believed they were justified in passing the Black Codes because they felt that
a. the government was intended for white men only and not African Americans.
b. African Americans wanted some guidance on how to conduct their lives after
obtaining freedom.
c. they were making the transition from slavery easier for African Americans.
____ 10. Southern governments passed the Black Codes to
a. take steps to integrate African Americans into southern culture.
b. limit the civil rights of freed African Americans.
c. provide work opportunities for freed African Americans in the South.
____ 11. The Black Codes required that African Americans sign work contracts so as to
a. replace the labor force that had been lost after the ending of slavery.
b. create revenue for the southern state governments after the war.
c. make sure that African Americans were being fairly treated.
____ 12. Republicans proposed the Fourteenth Amendment before southern states were readmitted to the
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Union to
a. protect the Civil Rights Act from being overturned by the South.
b. prevent the South from practicing racial discrimination.
c. ensure that southern states would agree to enter the Union.
The Fourteenth Amendment defined who could be considered a U.S. citizen. Which group did the
Amendment exclude from U.S. citizenship?
a. antislavery supporters
b. Native Americans
c. Confederacy supporters
President Johnson decided to reject the Freedmen’s Bureau because he
a. did not agree with the educational reforms that the Bureau made.
b. felt that the Bureau was giving too much power to African Americans.
c. determined the Bureau to be unconstitutional.
The Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in March 1867, affected the makeup of the southern
states by
a. creating a new boundary that separated the North from the states that had seceded
from the Union.
b. dividing the South into five military districts controlled by a military commander.
c. dividing the South into new states controlled by leaders who had not been
supporters of the Confederacy.
Congress passed a law limiting President Johnson’s powers in 1868 because the president had
a. opposed the Reconstruction Acts.
b. fired his secretary of war.
c. been impeached.
The Fifteenth Amendment protected the right of African American men to
a. equal treatment.
b. vote.
c. petition.
Congressional Republicans thought that passing the Fifteenth Amendment would help protect their
Reconstruction plan because they believed
a. the South would finally get behind their plan.
b. the Amendment that would end racial discrimination.
c. African Americans would vote to support the plan.
Which group criticized the Fifteenth Amendment?
a. immigrants
b. ex-Confederate voters
c. women
____ 20. How did state legislatures in the South begin to change as a result of Reconstruction?
a. Many white southerners began to support African American leaders in state
legislatures.
b. Many African Americans were elected as representatives to state legislatures.
c. The Democratic Party took control of state legislatures from the Republicans.
____ 21. Whom did white southerners call “carpetbaggers”?
a. former slaves living in the north who voted with the Republicans
b. northern-born Republican office-holders in the South
c. African American Republicans who took over Confederate seats
____ 22. Hiram Revels was the first African American to hold which post?
a. U.S. senator
b. U.S. House representative
c. secretary of state
____ 23. Which of these was a reason behind the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1866?
a. the election of President Ulysses S. Grant
b. the expansion of suffrage rights to include African Americans
c. the corruption of Reconstruction governments
____ 24. Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South before 1870?
a. Local governments had no legal right to prohibit the group’s activities.
b. The Klan received public support from Congress to continue its work.
c. Local governments did not do much to stop the violence of the group.
____ 25. A direct effect of the Compromise of 1877 was the
a. removal of federal troops from the South.
b. promotion of Reconstruction by the White House.
c. end of federal funding for Reconstruction reforms.
____ 26. The Redeemers attempted to limit the rights of African Americans by
a. establishing new schools for white Americans and reducing the number of schools
for African Americans.
b. increasing the state budget and using the extra money to create programs limiting
the rights of African American.
c. establishing laws that successfully discriminated against African Americans.
____ 27. Jim Crow laws?
a. enforced the segregation of African Americans and whites.
b. enforced African Americans’ right to vote.
c. prevented African Americans from holding office.
____ 28. The verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson
a. ended the reign of the oppressive Jim Crow laws in the United States.
b. legalized segregation as long as “separate-but-equal” facilities were provided.
c. decided that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was constitutional.
____ 29. Who were the Redeemers?
a. northern Republicans interested in reinstating Reconstruction
b. Democrats who brought their party back to power in the South
c. radical Southerners who hoped to restore slavery in the South
____ 30. How did the sharecropping system limit opportunities for African Americans to own farms and
property?
a. Most sharecroppers lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then
failing to make much money selling their crops.
b. Most sharecroppers had to live off of the crops they grew for food and as a result
never had any produce left to sell.
c. Most sharecroppers were forced to grow crops like corn and wheat, which were
never in high demand by the American public.