Deck 15: Consolidating a Triumphant Union, 1865-1877

Question 1

The Ku Klux Klan was founded by __________.

A) Jefferson Davis
B) a small clique of wealthy planters
C) a group of Confederate war veterans
D) Democratic party leaders

Answer 1

a group of Confederate war veterans

Question 2

Why were Congressional Republicans disappointed in President Johnson's approach to Reconstruction?

A) He wanted to include land reform in his plan for Reconstruction.
B) He voiced his support for wealthy white plantation owners.
C) His plan moved too slowly toward reestablishment of the Union.
D) He demonstrated that he had no interest in black equality.

Answer 2

He demonstrated that he had no interest in black equality.

Question 3

President Abraham Lincoln believed that the South should be __________.

A) made to pay for starting the war
B) placed under martial law for an indefinite period
C) brought back into the Union as quickly and painlessly as possible
D) remade to more closely resemble the North

Answer 3

brought back into the Union as quickly and painlessly as possible

Question 4

Postbellum black communities united around the principle that freedom from slavery should also mean __________.

A) full citizenship rights
B) total autonomy from southern whites
C) migration to the North
D) a slow transition to wage labor

Question 5

How did Lincoln respond to passage of the Wade-Davis Bill?

A) He refused to sign it.
B) He signed it as soon as he could.
C) He denounced it as a southern plot.
D) He asked the Congress to amend it before sending it to him.

Question 6

President Andrew Johnson wanted to __________.

A) overturn the existing racial order in the South
B) force the South to pay a war indemnity
C) repeal the Emancipation Proclamation
D) see members of the planter elite humiliated

Question 7

Why did Congress pass the Tenure of Office and Command of the Army Acts?

A) to secure congressional power over President Johnson
B) to address security issues in the South
C) to facilitate land reform
D) to speed ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

Question 8

The __________ abolished slavery in the United States.

A) Emancipation Proclamation
B) Fourteenth Amendment
C) Fifteenth Amendment
D) Thirteenth Amendment

Question 9

Under the terms of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, Confederate states would not be readmitted to the Union until they had __________.

A) elected at least ten black men to statewide office
B) paid a war indemnity
C) apologized for starting the war
D) ratified the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 10

What labor system ultimately replaced slavery on southern farms and plantations?

A) convict lease
B) indentured servitude
C) wage labor
D) sharecropping

Question 11

Roughly __________ southern soldiers died during the Civil War.

A) 1.2 million
B) 410,000
C) 260,000
D) 75,000

Question 12

How did President Johnson force a showdown with Congress over Reconstruction?

A) He pardoned Jefferson Davis.
B) He dismissed General Ulysses S. Grant.
C) He jailed Secretary of State William Seward.
D) He fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.

Question 13

How did President Johnson respond to Congressional approval of the Fourteenth Amendment?

A) He urged states not to ratify it.
B) He supported it in public, but opposed it in private.
C) He did everything he could to ensure its ratification.
D) He declared it unconstitutional.

Question 14

Most white Republicans believed that southern blacks should __________.

A) work on the plantations owned by their former masters
B) move to northern cities
C) be given land of their own
D) be deported to Africa

Question 15

Field Order Number 15 provided land to __________.

A) newly freed slaves
B) white Northerners
C) poor white Southerners
D) Union veterans

Question 16

Under Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, the Confederate states could form new governments when __________.

A) all military resistance ceased
B) 10 percent of the voting population of 1860 pledged allegiance to the United States and renounced slavery
C) 60 percent of adult black men had been registered to vote
D) they completed a ten-year period of probation

Question 17

Which of the following was true of the Freedmen's Bureau?

A) It compiled a mixed record.
B) It provided tens of thousands of former slaves with land.
C) It was supported by President Johnson.
D) It focused its efforts on voting rights.

Question 18

The __________ required a majority of southern voters in any state to take a loyalty oath affirming their allegiance to the United States before that state was readmitted to the Union.

A) Civil Rights Act of 1864
B) Wade-Davis Bill
C) Loyalty Act
D) Sherman Act

Question 19

White southern Republicans were referred to as __________ by their detractors.

A) scalawags
B) carpetbaggers
C) Yankees
D) black birds

Question 20

The intent of the Black Codes was to __________.

A) institute a system of near-slavery
B) bar southern elites from reentering the government
C) defend the rights of black citizens
D) establish racial quotas for state legislatures

Question 21

Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from __________ for $7.2 million.

A) France
B) China
C) Britain
D) Russia

Question 22

The Burlingame Treaty guaranteed government protection for __________.

A) Chinese immigrants
B) Irish laborers
C) Mexican Americans
D) Russian prospectors

Question 23

In 1867, the South was divided into __________ military districts.

A) three
B) five
C) ten
D) twelve

Question 24

Which of the following facilitated the displacement of Hispanic landowners by European American settlers?

A) the U.S. court system
B) the Ku Klux Klan
C) the railroad companies
D) the Mexican government

Question 25

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 __________.

A) passed over the objections of radical Republicans
B) was meant to speed up the process of bringing the South back into the Union
C) focused on the issue of land reform
D) stripped thousands of former Confederates of voting rights

Question 26

Which of the following was a consequence of the decision by the U.S. government to renounce the practice of seeking treaties with various Indian groups?

A) the expansion of the reservation system
B) the facilitation of a more conciliatory approach to Indians
C) the abolition of the reservation system
D) the establishment of a new, and larger, Indian Territory

Question 27

How did Chinese men living in California differ from California Indians?

A) Chinese men had no choice but to work as miners.
B) California Indians were trapped in the traditional agricultural economy.
C) California Indians had full citizenship rights.
D) Chinese men were accepted as equals by most whites.

Question 28

What did the Central Pacific Railroad lack in 1865?

A) money
B) a dependable labor force
C) government backing
D) an adequate supply of steel

Question 29

Republicans celebrated __________.

A) the right of all nations to self-determination
B) worker solidarity
C) regional diversity
D) the pursuit of individual economic self-interest

Question 30

_____________ was an important leader of the Apache resistance to the federal government.

A) Sitting Bull
B) Black Kettle
C) Crazy Horse
D) Geronimo

Question 31

Naturalist __________ led the fight to preserve America's wilderness.

A) Jay Cooke
B) John Muir
C) Carl Shurz
D) Jacob Riis

Question 32

Why did some Republicans want to annex the Dominican Republic?

A) They thought it would make a good naval base.
B) They wanted to use it as a penal colony.
C) They wanted to protect it from British colonization.
D) They hoped it could become a new state.

Question 33

The __________ Ring defrauded Hispanic landholders.

A) Phoenix
B) Albuquerque
C) Santa Fe
D) Dead Wood

Question 34

Which of the following was the Republican ideal?

A) to expand the diversity of the nation
B) to unite the entire country together as a single economic and political unit
C) to return to a traditional agrarian world
D) to achieve absolute economic equality

Question 35

The __________ was meant to prevent President Johnson from dismissing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.

A) Tenure of Office Act
B) Command of the Army Act
C) Force Act
D) Reconstruction Act of 1867

Question 36

Who benefited from the Mineral Act of 1866?

A) mining companies
B) Native Americans
C) independent miners
D) the American people

Question 37

How did the Central Pacific Railroad solve its labor problem?

A) by importing Irish laborers
B) by purchasing African American slaves
C) by importing Chinese laborers
D) by using Indians as forced labor

Question 38

What sparked a gold rush in the Black Hills in 1874?

A) newspaper articles planted by the federal government
B) rumors spread by the Northern Pacific Railroad
C) a report by Lieutenant Colonel George Custer
D) the discovery of gold by Sioux Indians

Question 39

Which of the following was most likely to be elected to political office in the South during Reconstruction?

A) a southern black minister who had been free before the war
B) a field hand who escaped and joined the Union army during the war
C) an older slave who was freed when the war came to an end
D) a northern black who came South after the war

Question 40

President Johnson was impeached for violating the __________.

A) Force Act
B) Freedmen's Bureau Act
C) Tenure of Office Act
D) Civil Rights Act of 1867

Question 41

In 1866 veteran reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucy Stone founded the __________

A) National Woman Suffrage Association
B) American Progress Association
C) Equal Rights Association
D) National Organization for Women

Question 42

The American Woman Suffrage Association focused __________.

A) exclusively on voting rights
B) on the larger struggle for women's rights
C) on economic issues
D) exclusively on social issues

Question 43

What role did Chinese immigrants play in the economy of postwar California?

Question 44

Describe the Compromise of 1877. What were its consequences?

Question 45

Boss Tweed was the leader of __________'s Tammany Hall.

A) New York
B) Boston
C) Chicago
D) San Francisco

Question 46

Describe Lincoln's approach to Reconstruction.

Question 47

The Compromise of 1877 __________.

A) made Samuel Tilden president of the United States
B) was decried by most white Southerners
C) left Republican governments in the South intact
D) left black Southerners to fend for themselves

Question 48

Describe the efforts of freedpeople to build their own communities in the years immediately following the Civil War.

Question 49

Which of the following was backed by the National Labor Union (NLU)?

A) racial equality in the workplace
B) the eight-hour workday
C) women's suffrage
D) the overthrow of the U.S. government

Question 50

The __________ aimed to unite industrial and rural workers in a single union.

A) Knights of Labor
B) Grange
C) American Federation of Labor
D) Congress of Industrial Organizations

Question 51

Greenbacks were __________.

A) promissory notes
B) stock certificates
C) government bonds
D) wartime paper currency

Question 52

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 guaranteed __________.

A) the right to vote
B) equal access to public accommodations and transportation
C) due process before the law
D) freedom of association

Question 53

Which of the following was true of the election of 1872?

A) Only 20 percent of eligible voters turned out on election day.
B) It resulted in an electoral college tie.
C) One of the major issues of the campaign was political corruption.
D) It pitted Rutherford B. Hayes against Samuel Tilden.

Question 54

Which of the following was true of members of the postbellum American middle class?

A) They rejected traditional gender roles.
B) They were increasingly secular.
C) They were committed to radical political reform.
D) They felt a deep cultural connection to their English counterparts.