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Ch 17 Test
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. A direct effect of the Compromise of 1877 was the
a. removal of federal troops from the South.
b. institution of a poll tax in the South.
c. promotion of Reconstruction by the White House.
d. end of federal funding for Reconstruction reforms.
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2. Jim Crow laws?
a. enforced African Americans’ right to vote.
b. protected African American civil rights.
c. enforced the segregation of African Americans and whites.
d. prevented African Americans from holding office.
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3. The Freedmen’s Bureau was a/an
a. group created to establish rules and regulations for freedmen in the United States.
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.
d. organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.
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4. The main goal of Reconstruction was to
a. revive the economies of northern states after the Civil War.
b. provide newly freed slaves with land and money.
c. establish a new national government following the Civil War.
d. readmit the former Confederate states into the Union.
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5. 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
d. the admittance of the southern states back into the Union
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6. President Andrew Johnson’s plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials was to
a. make them federal representatives.
b. have them pay off Confederate debts.
c. force them to surrender their land.
d. grant them amnesty through presidential pardons.
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7. The Fifteenth Amendment protected the right of African American men to
a. equal treatment.
b. vote.
c. petition.
d. bear arms.
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8. How did members of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate their anger towards African Americans?
a. They used violence and terror.
b. They lobbied Congress.
c. They held peaceful protests.
d. They voted against Democrats.
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9. Congress passed a law limiting President Johnson’s powers in 1868 because the president had
a. been impeached.
b. fired his secretary of war.
c. opposed the Reconstruction Acts.
d. lost popularity among voters.
____ 10. Lincoln’s main vision for Reconstruction was to
a. reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible.
b. see freed slaves living as equals with their white counterparts.
c. quickly return the South to its previous way of life.
d. make it difficult for the southern states to reenter the Union.
____ 11. How did the sharecropping system limit opportunities for African Americans to own farms and
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property?
a. Most sharecroppers were forced to grow crops like corn and wheat, which were
never in high demand by the American public.
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 earned a great deal of the profits gained from landowners’
sales of the produce they grew.
d. Most sharecroppers lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then
failing to make much money selling their crops.
Southern governments passed the Black Codes to
a. provide work opportunities for freed African Americans in the South.
b. show the federal government that the South could not be controlled.
c. limit the civil rights of freed African Americans.
d. take steps to integrate African Americans into southern culture.
The Black Codes required that African Americans sign work contracts so as to
a. make sure that African Americans were being fairly treated.
b. create revenue for the southern state governments after the war.
c. replace the labor force that had been lost after the ending of slavery.
d. ensure that African Americans had steady work after the Civil War.
The Black Codes were
a. demands from African Americans to southern governments.
b. laws passed that limited the freedom of African Americans.
c. laws passed that provided economic support for freed slaves.
d. identification numbers assigned to individual slaves.
The verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson
a. ended the reign of the oppressive Jim Crow laws in the United States.
b. decided that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was constitutional.
c. legalized segregation as long as “separate-but-equal” facilities were provided.
d. stated that the Fourteenth Amendment could only be applied at the state level.
What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans?
a. It provided African Americans with a future free from slavery.
b. It provided African Americans with compensation for their labor during slavery.
c. It gave African Americans the same economic opportunities as white Americans.
d. It gave African American citizens the right to vote.
____ 17. The Fourteenth Amendment defined who could be considered a U.S. citizen. Which group did the
Amendment exclude from U.S. citizenship?
a. Confederacy supporters
b. African Americans
c. antislavery supporters
d. Native Americans
____ 18. What was a poll tax?
a. a fee that was taken when giving a survey.
b. a black code that forced a person to pay a tax in order to vote.
c. a tax that was paid in order for somebody to hold election in certain locations.
d. a way that the Union decided to make money to pay for the Civil War.
____ 19. The Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in March 1867, affected the makeup of the southern
states by
a. creating new governments and appointing Republican governors to each state in
the South.
b. dividing the South into five military districts controlled by a military commander.
c. creating a new boundary that separated the North from the states that had seceded
from the Union.
d. dividing the South into new states controlled by leaders who had not been
supporters of the Confederacy.
____ 20. What were the Radical Republicans?
a. members of Congress who wanted to give complete amnesty to all Confederate
soldiers.
b. members of Congress that thought the Civil Rights act of 1866 was
unconstitutional.
c. members of the Senate that had been thrown into jail by Lincoln.
d. members of Congress who felt that southern states need to make great social
changes before re-entering the Union.
Matching
Match each item with the correct statement below.
a. sharecropping
b. Reconstruction Acts
c. Compromise of 1877
d. Radical Republicans
e. Andrew Johnson
f. Black Codes
g. poll tax
h. Plessy v. Ferguson
i. Freedmen’s Bureau
j. Hiram Revels
k. segregation
l. Civil Rights Act of 1866
first African American senator, he helped organize African American troops in the Civil War
American leader who became president following Lincoln’s assassination
set of laws that divided the South into five districts under military control
law passed by Congress that gave African Americans the same legal rights as white Americans
political group that wanted the federal government to become more involved in Reconstruction
policy set forth by Redeemer governments in an effort to deny African Americans the right to vote
farming system used in the South in which a worker farms the land and gives the landowner a
portion of the crop as payment for rent
____ 28. forced legal separation of the races introduced by Redeemer governments
____ 29. set of laws that limited the freedom and rights of African Americans. Aimed at keeping them
subservant.
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Short Answer
31. Define Reconstruction. What was Andrew Johnson’s role in Reconstruction? Describe in detail.
What happened to Johnson? Would Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln lived? Why or
why not? Defend your answer.