Deck 14: The Union Reconstructed

Question 1

In the years immediately following emancipation, the Freed people

A) considered securing jobs and land to be their primary goals.
B) preferred to work in gangs.
C) showed little interest in establishing a traditional family life.
D) showed little interest in acquiring an education.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In trying to establish a policy for reconstruction of the South after the Civil War,

A) Congress readily agreed with Lincoln's plan.
B) a conflict arose between Congress and the president about who had authority in the matter.
C) Johnson finally forced Congress to adopt his plan.
D) Congress rejected Lincoln's plan.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution

A) gained considerable support from President Johnson.
B) became the central issue of the midterm election, because Johnson spoke against Republicans, and Democrats appealed to voters' prejudices.
C) generated little controversy; all Americans endorsed it.
D) joined Democrats and Republicans in a shared cause.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In providing aid to the blacks after the Civil War, the Freedman's Bureau

A) concentrated on helping poor whites instead of blacks.
B) was characterized by mixed success.
C) was generally unconcerned with black needs.
D) was a total failure.

Question 5

At the end of the Reconstruction period, southern blacks in general

A) dominated southern politics.
B) remained economically dependent on southern whites.
C) had gained effective economic independence from southern whites.
D) had mostly migrated to the North.

Question 6

In the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, Congress

A) allowed southern states to deny blacks the right to vote.
B) provided for impeachment of the president.
C) divided the southern states into five military districts.
D) impeached President Grant.

Question 7

The election of 1866 was critical in determining the outcome of Reconstruction because the

A) Democrats won a majority in Congress.
B) Republicans were defeated in the election.
C) president won great support from the people.
D) Republicans won an overwhelming victory.

Question 8

In the months immediately after the Civil War, the dominant emotion among southern whites was

A) fear.
B) anger toward plantation owners.
C) sorrow.
D) acceptance of blacks as equals.

Question 9

At the end of the Civil War, emancipated blacks

A) received ownership of 40 acres of land.
B) often changed their manners toward whites to demonstrate their freedom.
C) mostly remained on the plantations where they had been slaves.
D) immediately achieved full equality with southern whites.

Question 10

In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the southern states

A) contrasted starkly with the economic prosperity of the northern states.
B) readily accepted whatever reconstruction policy the North suggested.
C) had been affected only slightly by the war, both socially and economically.
D) quickly reestablished an industrial-based economy.

Question 11

Radical Republicans created their own plan for Reconstruction, including

A) helping Freed people make the transition to full freedom.
B) imprisoning rebel leaders.
C) promoting economic diversity in the South.
D) forcing southern states to pay the costs of the Civil War.

Question 12

In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the Democratic Party

A) represented an uneasy alliance of former Whigs and Know-Nothings.
B) depicted the Republicans as a group of rebels and traitors.
C) ruled victoriously over the government of the United States.
D) was in shambles organizationally.

Question 13

During the Reconstruction period, northerners

A) only reluctantly supported the idea of giving blacks the right to vote.
B) generally wanted to confiscate the property of southern whites and give it to the blacks.
C) enthusiastically endorsed the idea of black equality.
D) opposed granting citizenship to blacks.

Question 14

As the Allstons began to reestablish their lives after the Civil War, they found that

A) all of their former slaves had fled from their plantations.
B) the blacks had taken control of southern society.
C) it would be fairly simple to reestablish the old patterns of society.
D) new relationships would have to be established with their former slaves.

Question 15

During the Reconstruction Era, the "Black Codes"

A) reestablished slavery.
B) guaranteed Freed people full political and civil rights.
C) desegregated southern society.
D) restricted the economic opportunities of the Freed people.

Question 16

Chief among those who wanted to provide economic support for the Freed people after the Civil War was

A) Ulysses S. Grant.
B) Thaddeus Stevens.
C) Abraham Lincoln.
D) Andrew Johnson.

Question 17

In an overall analysis, Congressional Reconstruction for the Freed people

A) provided blacks with an excellent foundation for the future.
B) attracted widespread support among southern whites.
C) provided economic, but not political opportunities.
D) provided little economic security.

Question 18

During the Reconstruction period, southern tenant farmers

A) found it easy to gain ownership of their own land.
B) united to confiscate the property of the landowners.
C) generally grew almost all of what they needed for survival.
D) seldom earned much money and fell into debt.

Question 19

Congress impeached President Johnson for

A) the Credit Mobilier scandals.
B) permitting blacks to vote.
C) extramarital affairs in office.
D) violating the Tenure of Office Act.

Question 20

Andrew Johnson's plan for national reconstruction

A) proved to be very lenient toward the South.
B) pleased the Republican leadership in Congress.
C) called for harsh treatment of the South.
D) defended the interest of the planter class.

Question 21

The Republican governments that controlled the southern states during Reconstruction were

A) supported by some white southerners.
B) usually more corrupt than state governments in the North.
C) generally accepted by most white southerners.
D) dominated by illiterate blacks.

Question 22

Which of the following statements describes the corruption in the South during Reconstruction?

A) It took place in railway bonds.
B) It took place in construction contracts.
C) It took place in land sales.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 23

In 1872, which of the following men became president of the United States?

A) Horace Greeley
B) Ulysses S. Grant
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Abraham Lincoln

Question 24

All of the following statements describe changes made to southern education during Reconstruction EXCEPT:

A) White and black school attendance increased.
B) The number of public schools increased.
C) Poor children were not allowed to attend school.
D) Segregation in schools remained largely the norm.

Question 25

In an attempt to improve their condition after freedom, blacks during the Reconstruction period

A) placed little emphasis on education.
B) encountered little white opposition to their educational efforts.
C) often worked through their churches.
D) relied exclusively on the Freedman's Bureau.

Question 26

Explain how blacks responded to their former masters after the Civil War had ended.

Question 27

Compare the economic conditions of the South with the economic conditions of the North during the period of Reconstruction.

Question 28

After the Civil War, as far as education was concerned, blacks

A) showed a thirst for knowledge.
B) found most southern whites supportive of their desire to learn.
C) had a higher percentage of school attendance than whites.
D) showed little interest in formal learning.

Question 29

In the late nineteenth century, the black leader who continued to press for full citizenship rights for blacks in the United States was

A) Felix Haywood.
B) Benjamin "Pap" Singleton.
C) Frederick Douglass.
D) Benjamin Franklin.

Question 30

During the Reconstruction Era, poor white southerners

A) generally embraced a religion centered on camp meeting revivals.
B) effectively combined with poor blacks to achieve political control of the southern state governments.
C) tended to accept the blacks as their social equals.
D) escaped from the tenant farming system.

Question 31

Stimulated by the Civil War, many American workers during Reconstruction formed

A) prisons.
B) unions.
C) asylums.
D) railroad companies.

Question 32

By 1868, the Republicans had changed from a party of moral reform to a party of

A) material interests.
B) pro-black sentiment.
C) anti-southern sentiment.
D) pro-Democratic Party sentiment.

Question 33

Why did Reconstruction end?

A) Black issues became secondary to other national priorities and interests.
B) Financial panic and economic hard times distracted northerners.
C) Southern white Democratic violence halted black political control.
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 34

Which of the following states had disputed election results in the 1876 presidential election?

A) Louisiana
B) Florida
C) South Carolina
D) All of these answers are correct.

Question 35

Discuss how southern whites reacted to the emancipation of blacks during the period of Reconstruction.

Question 36

All of the following statements describe the Credit Mobilier scandal EXCEPT:

A) President Grant was involved in the scandal.
B) The scandal involved certain congressmen.
C) The scandal involved a dummy corporation building transcontinental railroads.
D) Congressmen received stock in the company in exchange for generous contracts.

Question 37

The Republican coalition lasted longest in the

A) Upper South.
B) West.
C) Deep South.
D) Midwest.

Question 38

Discuss President Johnson's plan for reconstruction and Congress's response to that plan.

Question 39

During Reconstruction, poor blacks and poor whites in the South

A) largely owned their own farmland.
B) found economic independence through the tenant farming system.
C) often became sharecroppers or tenant farmers.
D) came together in harmony.

Question 40

During the late 1860s as Republicans lost interest in the South, American women like Susan B. Anthony

A) fought for women's rights.
B) remained at home adhering to traditional values.
C) joined the U.S. Army.
D) gave up on helping other women.

Question 41

Discuss Congress's plan for Reconstruction and explain what Congress hoped to achieve as a result of that plan.

Question 42

Describe the general attitude of the Union soldiers stationed in the South toward blacks during Reconstruction. Support your answer by citing specific incidents that occurred during that period.

Question 43

Discuss the methods by which conservative white Democrats regained control of the southern state governments at the end of Reconstruction.

Question 44

The Grant administration strongly pursued a policy of defending black rights in the South. Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement, citing historical evidence to support your position.

Question 45

Discuss the economic conditions of poor blacks and poor whites during the period of Reconstruction.

Question 46

Evaluate the successes and failures of the Republican administrations that controlled the southern state governments during the period of Reconstruction.