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CH 21 quiz
HIS-132-ATR1 American History II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following is not a function for which the Freedmen’s Bureau was established? | to relocate emancipated Black people to the West or force them into labor contracts with former masters |
| Who believed that the southern states had completely left the Union and were therefore, "conquered provinces" that had to seek readmission on whatever economic and political terms Congress demanded? | congressional radical Republicans |
| What was a result of freedom for southern Black people at the end of the Civil War? | It caused whole communities of southern Blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi to migrate westward to territories and states such as Kansas for better job opportunities. |
| Who were the "Exodusters"? | Black freedmen who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas |
| What did the political controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrate? | the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction |
| Why were many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments? | They gave national citizenship rights and voting rights to Black American males but not to white or Black women. |
| Which of the following did the Black codes not provide for? | a restriction against Black migration from the South |
| What was the main purpose of the Black codes? | to ensure a stable and subservient labor supply |
| Which of the following was not a reason why the Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson? | President Johnson promised not to run for president in 1868 if acquitted |
| What was not a new political role assumed by Black American women during Reconstruction? | voting in state and local elections |
| What was a primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan? | white American's resistance in the South to constitutional and federal legislative attempts to empower Black American's politically and challenge white supremacy |
| What did the Black codes seem to indicate to many Northerners? | The arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War and the North had sacrificed its young men in vain. |
| When did the Exodusters' westward mass migration finally falter? | when steamboat captains refused to transport more former enslaved people across the Mississippi |
| Of the following, which was not one of the various ways southern Black people responded to the prospect of emancipation? | Some enslaved Black people claimed sections of plantation land as their own. |
| When did radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally end? | when the last federal troops were removed in 1877 and a "solid" Democratic South became politically institutionalized |
| How did white Southerners view the Freedmen’s Bureaus? | as a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance |
| What central goal did the Ku Klux Klan achieve, despite the Force Acts and opposition by the federal army? | intimidating Blacks Americans and undermining them politically |
| Which of the following is true about the Fourteenth Amendment? | It prohibited former Confederates, who had once sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution, from holding federal or state office. |
| In what area were the greatest achievements of the Freedmen’s Bureau? | educating former enslaved people |
| Which of the following is true of radical Reconstruction state governments in the South? | They passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms such as establishing adequate public schools and launching public works. |
| What was the fate of the defeated Confederate leaders? | After brief jail terms, all were pardoned in 1868. |
| Which of the following is true of the 1866 congressional elections? | Voters endorsed the Republican congressional approach to Reconstruction. |
| What did Congress seek to pass after Andrew Johnson's veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866? | the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Which of the following was not among the functions provided by the Black Union League? | helping Black Americans migrate from the South to the North |
| Which is true of President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction? | It aimed at swift restoration of the southern states after they met a few moderate political conditions. |
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