APUSH Quiz 22 & 23
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- Q1In the postwar South:The emancipation of slaves had surprisingly little economic consequence.The economy was utterly devastatedIndustry and transportation were damaged, but Southern agriculture continued to flourish.Poorer whites benefited from the end of plantation slavery.45s
- Q2The greatest achievements of the Freedmen’s Bureau were inEducation.helping people to find employment.Its distribution of land.The provision of food and clothing.45s
- Q3The White South viewed the Freedman’s Bureau as:More helpful in the North than in the South.An agency acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.A meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.A valued partner in rebuilding the South.45s
- Q4The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated:President Lincoln’s desire for a harsh reconstruction plan.The close ties that were developing between President Lincoln and the Democrats.The deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress.That a Congressional majority believed that the South had never legally left the Union.45s
- Q5In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised:Severe punishment of Southern political and military leaders.Rapid readmission of Southern states into the Union.Former slaves the right to vote.The restoration of the planter aristocracy to political power.45s
- Q6Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War:Came haltingly and unevenly in different parts of the conquered Confederacy.Came with relative ease.Was achieved without the use of Union soldiers.Enabled large numbers to move to the big cities in the North.30s
- Q7That the Southern states were “conquered provinces” and therefore at the mercy of Congress for readmission to the Union was the view of:President Johnson.The Supreme Court.Congressional Republicans.War Democrats.45s
- Q8The Black Codes provided for all of the following except:Punishment of blacks for idleness.Fines for blacks who jumped labor contracts.Voting by blacks.A ban on jury service by blacks.45s
- Q9For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states’ restoration to the Union was thatThe South would be stronger than ever in national politics.Blacks might actually gain election to the US Congress.Slavery might be re-established.Inexperienced Southern politicians would be elected.45s
- Q10The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed:Freed slaves the right to vote.Land for former slaves.Freedom to slaves.Citizenship to freed slaves.45s
- Q11In the 1866 Congressional elections,Republicans lost their majority control of Congress.Voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction.Radicals replaced moderates as the dominant faction in Congress.President Johnson conducted a highly successful “swing around the circle” campaign tour.45s
- Q12Congress’s impeachment of President Johnson and attempt to remove him from office were directly precipitated by his:highly partisan “swing around the circle:” in 1866.Veto of the Freedman’s Bureau Bill.Advice to Southern states not to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.Dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton in 1867.45s
- Q13Which of the following groups or persons had the most strict reconstruction plan toward the South?Senator Steven Douglas.Abraham Lincoln.Andrew Johnson.Radical Republican Congressmen.45s
- Q14The fate of the Confederate leaders after 1865 was thatSeveral were executed for treason.None was ever allowed to hold political office again.Within the next hundred years, all were eventually pardoned.Most were jailed for an extended period of time.45s
- Q15For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following except:The opportunity to form their own churches.the ability to search for lost family.The opportunity for an education.That large numbers would move north.45s