History

Abraham Lincoln's plan of reconstruction required:

A) 50 percent of the adult white males to take the loyalty oath.
B) the abolition of slavery with compensation.
C) 10 percent of the adult white males to take the loyalty oath.
D) blacks be given the right to vote.

Under the new president Andrew Johnson, presidential reconstruction:

A) never was implemented because Congress passed its own program before Johnson's could go into effect.
B) adhered substantially to the views of Congressional leaders.
C) made it possible for former high-ranking Confederates to assume positions of power in the reconstructed southern governments.
D) would implement a harsh program in the South.

In May 1868:

A) Andrew Johnson resigned from the presidency rather than face certain impeachment and removal.
B) the Senate failed by one vote to convict Andrew Johnson of the impeachment charges filed against him.
C) the House of Representatives refused to approve articles of impeachment.
D) Andrew Johnson became the first president to be removed from office.

The African-Americans elected to political offices during Reconstruction:

A) were more conservative than the majority of the black population
B) briefly dominated all of the state governments of the former Confederacy.
C) tended to be poor, uneducated, and unqualified to hold elective offices.
D) overwhelmingly advocated land reform as crucial to true freedom.

The most important institutions for African-Americans as they tried to establish their own independent family and community life were:

A) the black-controlled state legislatures and the land reform program.
B) the sharecropping system and the black codes.
C) the Freedmen's Bureau and the Supreme Court.
D) the schools and the churches.

In the years after the Civil War, most freedpeople ended up working:

A) as farmers on land they owned.
B) as wage laborers in the new textile mills.
C) as itinerant day laborers in domestic and service jobs.
D) as farmers under a sharecropping system

The Freedmen's Bureau courts:

A) were declared unconstitutional by the federal courts.
B) were the most effective means of protecting black economic rights.
C) consistently sided with the planters.
D) consistently sided with the freedmen.

The Fifteenth Amendment:

A) forbid literacy tests or property requirements for voting.
B) prohibited denying the right to vote on grounds of race.
C) enacted women's suffrage.
D) imposed black suffrage only in the South.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875:

A) contained provisions for social equality that were later declared unconstitutional.
B) was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant and never went into effect.
C) eliminated social segregation in the North and in the South.
D) never passed Congress despite pressure from President Grant.

The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan was to:
A) destroy the Republican party in the South.
B) keep former slaves from finding jobs.
C) help Republican candidates win elections in Southern states.
D) force all African-Americans to leave the South.

The Compromise of 1877:

A) provided for a recount of votes in the former Confederate states.
B) underscored Republican resolve to continue Reconstruction.
C) marked the end of Reconstruction.
D) gave the presidency to Tilden.

Reconstruction ended:

A) without any positive results for African-Americans or the nation.
B) in failure because of deep-seated racism in the United States.
C) as a success because northern blacks had gained social equality.
D) despite strong northern sentiments to continue Radical policies.