Question 1

The Tenure of Office Act

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A)   was roundly condemned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
B)   was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.
C)   None of these answers is correct.
D)   was both designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority and roundly condemned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
E)   gave the Senate the power to appoint members of the president's cabinet.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 2

The Alabama claims

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A)   were found by the Supreme Court to invalidate Radical Reconstruction.
B)   ended an experiment in black landownership.
C)   saw the United States refuse to pay Alabama for losses incurred during the Civil War.
D)   involved complaints by the United States against England.
E)   marked a renewed effort in asserting the rights of states over federal authority.F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 3

Describe "Jim Crow."

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Question 4

What did the Thirteenth,Fourteenth,and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S.Constitution do? How successful was each in practice?

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Question 5

Radical Republicans favored a reconstruction process that would readmit the former Confederate states to the Union with fairly few restrictions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan,some Radical Republicans

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A)   ended military tribunals in favor of civil courts.
B)   proposed abolishing the Court.
C)   established military tribunals in additional Southern states.
D)   reduced the number of justices on the Court.
E)   tempered many of their Reconstruction plans.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 7

The elections of 1876 saw

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A)   the Supreme Court decide the presidential election.
B)   Ulysses Grant make an unsuccessful bid for an unprecedented third term.
C)   the governor of New York become president.
D)   the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.
E)   a Democrat become president for the first time since the Civil War.F) A) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 8

Northern commitment to Reconstruction waned as a result of

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A)   All these answers are correct.
B)   the Panic of 1873.
C)   the growing political strength of Democrats.
D)   perceptions of black and carpetbag misgovernment in the South.
E)   the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

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A)   suffrage.
B)   citizenship.
C)   slavery.
D)   income tax.
E)   cruel and unusual punishment.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

How did Lincoln's plan differ from those of the Radical Republicans?

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Question 11

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871

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A)   gave legal protection to the Ku Klux Klan.
B)   was vetoed by President Ulysses Grant.
C)   was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.
D)   allowed white Southerners to maintain a police state.
E)   was designed to support the Black Codes.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 12

By the time Grant left office,Democrats had taken back control of the government in

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A)   none of the former Confederate states.
B)   just three of the former Confederate states.
C)   most of the former Confederate states.
D)   all of the former Confederate states except South Carolina.
E)   all of the former Confederate states except Florida.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 13

During Reconstruction,the black labor force worked

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A)   significantly more hours than the white labor force.
B)   significantly less hours than the white labor force.
C)   approximately the same number of hours as during slavery.
D)   significantly fewer hours than had been the case during slavery.
E)   more hours than had been the case during slavery.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 14

During Reconstruction,there was a dramatic improvement in Southern

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A)   industry.
B)   agriculture.
C)   banking.
D)   education.
E)   transportation.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 15

Why has the presidency of Andrew Johnson generally been considered a failure by historians?

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Question 16

Schuyler Colfax,Grant's vice president,

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A)   was fired by Grant for incompetence.
B)   was assassinated by a disgruntled former plantation owner.
C)   opposed almost every one of Grant's policies.
D)   was involved in a stock-fixing scandal.
E)   None of these answers is correct.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 17

African Americans were able to work in all types of industry in the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Among other positions,Booker T.Washington

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A)   proposed an exodus of blacks from the South to the West.
B)   favored industrial over classical education.
C)   argued that blacks spent too much time trying to impress the white middle class.
D)   rejected the ideology of the "New South creed."
E)   called on the federal government to offer job training for blacks.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 19

Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny,as white Southerners charged,nor a thoroughgoing reform,as many Northerners claimed.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

As president,Rutherford B.Hayes

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A)  helped to unify Republicans and Democrats.
B)  promised to take the South back from the "Redeemers."
C)  called for a modest expansion of Reconstruction programs.
D)  promised to serve only one term.
E)  refused to make political compromises with Democrats.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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