Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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| 1. | Reconstruction referred to A. | tearing down crumbling buildings and starting over
again. | B. | rebuilding the South and reuniting the
nation. | C. | fixing up problems in the North. | D. | changing laws in
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| 2. | The
Thirteenth Amendment A. | gave freed slaves the right to vote. | B. | banned
secession. | C. | abolished slavery. | D. | allowed
southerners back into the Union. | | |
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| 3. | The
Black Codes were written to A. | limit the freedom of former slaves. | B. | protect former
slaves. | C. | increase the rights of former slaves. | D. | free northern
slaves. | | |
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| 4. | Former Confederates called southern whites who had supported the Union cause and now
were in favor of Reconstruction A. | scalawags. | C. | abolitionists. | B. | carpetbaggers. | D. | secessionists. | | | | |
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| 5. | A
former slave who became an abolitionist and adviser to President Andrew Johnson on race relations
was A. | Booker T.
Washington. | C. | Frederick
Douglass. | B. | Thaddeus Stevens. | D. | James Madison Wells. | | | | |
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| 6. | Which
of the following statements about the South following the Civil War is NOT
true? A. | Most of the
people died from illnesses. | B. | Thousand of people were jobless. | C. | The economy was
in shambles. | D. | Countless buildings lay in ruins. | | |
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| 7. | In
the 1876 presidential election, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes ran against Democratic
candidate A. | Robert E.
Lee. | C. | Samuel J.
Tilden. | B. | Thaddeus Stevens. | D. | Charles Sumner. | | | | |
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| 8. | President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by A. | Andrew
Johnson. | C. | Thaddeus
Stevens. | B. | John Wilkes Booth. | D. | Ulysses S. Grant. | | | | |
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| 9. | Which
of the following statements concerning land reform during Reconstruction is NOT
true? A. | Some freedpeople
believed they would receive forty acres and a mule. | B. | Some people took
advantage of African Americans’ desire for land after the war. | C. | Freedpeople did
not receive land from the federal government. | D. | Freedpeople
received land from the federal government after the war. | | |
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| 10. | The
first Civil Rights Act in the history of the United States was the A. | Civil Rights Act
of 1866. | C. | Civil Rights Act
of 1875. | B. | Fourteenth Amendment. | D. | Fifteenth Amendment. | | | | |
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| 11. | African Americans first won the right to vote in A. | Mississippi. | C. | the territories
of the United States. | B. | the District of Columbia. | D. | Illinois. | | | | |
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| 12. | Which
of the following was NOT one of the terms included in the Reconstruction Acts of
1867? A. | The former
Confederacy was divided into five military districts. | B. | States were to
submit new constitutions guaranteeing all people the vote. | C. | States were
required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. | D. | African
Americans were to be able to vote for and serve as delegates to state constitutional
conventions. | | |
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| 13. | Which
of the following statements about African American involvement in state constitutional conventions is
NOT true? A. | African American
delegates outnumbered white delegates in Louisiana and South Carolina. | B. | African American
delegates composed from 10 to 40 percent of the delegates in other states. | C. | African
Americans had no interest in becoming delegates for state constitutional
conventions. | D. | Most of the African American delegates were southerners;
however, northerners also participated. | | |
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| 14. | Which
of the following statements is NOT true concerning Andrew Johnson? A. | He was a
Democrat. | B. | He was once a slaveholder. | C. | He was a master
at political compromise. | D. | He held pro-Union sympathies. | | |
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| 15. | The
Civil Rights Act of 1875 A. | prohibited businesses that served the public from
discriminating against African Americans. | B. | declared that everyone born in the United States was a citizen
with full rights. | C. | required states to extend equal citizenship to African
Americans and all people born or naturalized in the United States. | D. | extended the
right to vote to African American men. | | |
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement. A. | Union
League | G. | Compromise of
1877 | B. | carpetbaggers | H. | Andrew
Johnson | C. | segregation | I. | Juneteenth | D. | Fourteenth
Amendment | J. | Rutherford B.
Hayes | E. | Abraham Lincoln | K. | Nathan Bedford Forrest | F. | Ulysses S.
Grant | L. | Thaddeus
Stevens | | | | |
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| 16. | presidential candidate who defeated Samuel J. Tilden in the election of
1876
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| 17. | political group that built schools and churches for African Americans and helped care
for the sick
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| 18. | legislation passed by Congress so that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 could not be
repealed
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| 19. | an
African American celebration of Emancipation Day
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| 20. | white
and African American Republicans from the northern United States who traveled south to attend state
constitutional conventions
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| 21. | led
to the removal of federal troops in the South
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| 22. | president who issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
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| 23. | president of the United States after Andrew Johnson
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| 24. | the
Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
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| 25. | the
separation of the races
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