Question 1

that

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A)   the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
B)   private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
C)   communities could have schools for whites only, even if there were no schools for blacks.
D)   racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."
E)   segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 2

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century,southern agriculture

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A)   saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system.
B)   saw a significant diversification of its crops.
C)   saw a deceleration of the processes begun in the postwar years.
D)   regained the profitability it had had prior to the Civil War.
E)   saw a decline in absentee ownership of farmland.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 3

Grant's response to bad economic times was to approve plans to increase the amount of money in circulation.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In what ways did Reconstruction succeed? In what ways did it fail? What has been its legacy?

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Question 5

As president,Andrew Johnson

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A)   offered some form of amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.
B)   long delayed presenting his own plans for Reconstruction.
C)   proposed delaying the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
D)   quickly sided with the Radical Republicans.
E)   argued the South should be readmitted to the Union without conditions.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

During the Johnson administration,the United States acquired

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A)   Hawaii.
B)   the Virgin Islands.
C)   Puerto Rico.
D)   Guam.
E)   Alaska.F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 8

During Reconstruction,the Southern school system

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A)   only offered primary instruction.
B)   initially were not segregated.
C)   reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876.
D)   barely reached any children of former slaves.
E)   did not allow blacks to be teachers.F) A) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 9

As sharecroppers,the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Despite defeat in the Civil War,white landownership actually increased during Reconstruction.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to the

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A)   number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.
B)   percentage of freed slaves who must be given the right to vote before setting up a state government.
C)   ratio of federal troops to freed slaves in each Southern state.
D)   area of land in each state that should be reserved for former slaves.
E)   ratio of federal to state money to be spent in rebuilding the Southern economy.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

In the 1860s,Black Codes were

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A)   enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
B)   designed to give whites control over freedmen.
C)   holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
D)   passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
E)   vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

The Freedmen's Bureau was a civilian agency under the control of the State Department.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

President Johnson vetoed both the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

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A)   was intended to bring Andrew Johnson into the presidency.
B)   saw John Wilkes Booth convicted of the murder of the president.
C)   involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.
D)   had been planned at the highest levels of the Confederate government.
E)   brought a Radical Republican to the presidency.F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 16

After Reconstruction,political power under southern "Redeemers"

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A)   increased state services for the poor.
B)   typically relied on raising taxes for its funding.
C)   helped consolidate the "Solid South" for the Republican Party.
D)   was very often restricted and conservative.
E)   ignored the interests of industrialists.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 17

In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech,Booker T.Washington

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A)   criticized the federal government for abandoning southern blacks.
B)   stated that blacks should give up in seeking equality with whites.
C)   argued that blacks should honor their African forebears.
D)   called for political and civil rights for black Americans.
E)   called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 18

In the South during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century,

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A)   the southern share of national manufacturing doubled.
B)   southerners became more dependent on agriculture than ever.
C)   most industrial growth came from coal mining.
D)   per capita income fell sharply.
E)   the average income reached 80 percent of that in the North.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 19

How did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln affect Reconstruction?

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Question 20

During Reconstruction,Southern African American officeholders

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A)   underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.
B)   rarely engaged in illegal political activities.
C)   did not serve in the federal Congress or Senate.
D)   filled as many as five seats in the United States Senate.
E)   were excluded from state constitutional conventions.F) B) and C)
G) All of the above

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During the last quarter of the nineteenth century,southern agriculture

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