Correct. The answer is a. As a southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth was incensed by Lincoln’s calls for black suffrage.

Incorrect. The answer is a. As a southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth was incensed by Lincoln’s calls for black suffrage.

Correct. The answer is c. Unlike many families of freed slaves, the Powers family worked as sharecroppers for only a few years before they were able to buy their own farmland. That land provided her parents and siblings with some level of economic security until her parents’ deaths.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Unlike many families of freed slaves, the Powers family worked as sharecroppers for only a few years before they were able to buy their own farmland. That land provided her parents and siblings with some level of economic security until her parents’ deaths.

Correct. The answer is b. At the time Frances Leigh wrote her letter, the U.S. Congress had recently implemented the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which divided the conquered South into five military districts, each under the command of a U.S. General. The law stipulated that, to reenter the Union, former Confederate states had to grant the vote to freedmen and deny it to leading ex-Confederates. Johnson vetoed the act, but Congress overrode his veto.

Incorrect. The answer is b. At the time Frances Leigh wrote her letter, the U.S. Congress had recently implemented the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which divided the conquered South into five military districts, each under the command of a U.S. General. The law stipulated that, to reenter the Union, former Confederate states had to grant the vote to freedmen and deny it to leading ex-Confederates. Johnson vetoed the act, but Congress overrode his veto.

Correct. The answer is d. Adams objected to the extension of suffrage to women, African Americans, and immigrants, suggesting that granting these groups the right to vote would lead to “a government of ignorance and vice.” He granted that although white women were less objectionable voters than black men, their impulsivity and “excitable natures” made them a danger to free institutions.

Incorrect. The answer is d. Adams objected to the extension of suffrage to women, African Americans, and immigrants, suggesting that granting these groups the right to vote would lead to “a government of ignorance and vice.” He granted that although white women were less objectionable voters than black men, their impulsivity and “excitable natures” made them a danger to free institutions.

Correct. The answer is c. This cartoon relied heavily on negative black stereotypes to suggest that black politicians had, by the mid-1870s, brought disorder and corruption to the state governments of the South. It indicated the degree to which even previously sympathetic white Republicans had come to view Reconstruction in negative terms by 1874.

Incorrect. The answer is c. This cartoon relied heavily on negative black stereotypes to suggest that black politicians had, by the mid-1870s, brought disorder and corruption to the state governments of the South. It indicated the degree to which even previously sympathetic white Republicans had come to view Reconstruction in negative terms by 1874.

Correct. The answer is c. Robert Browne Elliot spoke in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which required “full and equal” access to jury service, transportation, and public accommodations, irrespective of race. He framed the legislation as the pinnacle of the long American struggle for natural rights.

Incorrect. The answer is c. Robert Browne Elliot spoke in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which required “full and equal” access to jury service, transportation, and public accommodations, irrespective of race. He framed the legislation as the pinnacle of the long American struggle for natural rights.