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Chapter 14 Summative Quiz

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1. Why did some slaves not find out about emancipation for months, even years, after the Civil War ended?

Their masters, especially in remote locations, withheld the news.

Confederate officials conspired to suppress news of their defeat.

Southern newspapers refused to print news of their defeat.

Union officers were content to allow the unofficial continuation of slavery.

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2. What role did the Freedmen’s Bureau play in the lives of newly freed blacks?

It provided them with economic and legal resources.

It encouraged them to move north.

It ensured their access to education and healthcare.

It promoted a theology of forgiveness.

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3. What compelled free blacks to want to read the Bible themselves?

White preachers had claimed that the Bible taught black slavery was God’s will.

The Bible was the only book that was widely available at the time.

Free blacks were more religious than poor whites.

White ministers long claimed that blacks could not be saved.

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4. What did the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution achieve?

Black men and women were granted citizenship.

Black men were granted the right to vote.

Slavery was abolished.

White women were granted the right to vote.

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5. What was the effect of the black codes passed in the South following the Civil War?

Special protections were granted to newly freed black people to protect them from violence and intimidation.

Blacks were given key rights to citizenship such as the right to bear arms and serve on juries.

Free blacks were effectively re-enslaved by a separate legal system that restricted them.

Free blacks were forced to work for their former masters if they could not prove they had other forms of income.

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6. How did the Fourteenth Amendment effectively nullify the Dred Scott decision of 1857?

It determined that states had the right to offer rights of citizenship to blacks.

It legitimized marriages between blacks as well as interracial marriages.

It extended equal protection and due process to all.

It granted suffrage to black men twenty years or older.

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7. Northerners saw the punishment of Confederate leaders following the Civil War as

adequate because northerners didn’t believe in violence.

adequate because the Union was fragile.

absurdly lenient, unlike that levied against opponents in other wars.

too strict and a threat to the peace.

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8. The term scalawag, an unflattering term meaning “scoundrels,” was applied to whom during Reconstruction?

Northern soldiers who supported Democrats

Northern elites who supported Republicans

Southern whites who supported Republicans

Southern whites who supported Democrats

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9. How did landlords exploit laborers under the sharecropping system that arose following the Civil War?

By refusing to rent land to free blacks

By charging high fees for goods and supplies

By paying below-market rates for crops

By sabotaging crop growth

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10. Which group was disproportionately blamed for increasing taxes during Reconstruction?

Black officials

Northern Republicans

Southern Democrats

White officials

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11. What was the outcome of federal efforts to destroy the Ku Klux Klan?

The Ku Klux Klan was disbanded.

The Ku Klux Klan continued business as usual.

The Ku Klux Klan went underground.

Federal authority was weakened by the unsuccessful effort.

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12. What event effectively brought Reconstruction to an end?

The destruction of the Ku Klux Klan in 1872

The ruling in Slaughterhouse in 1875

The presidential election of 1876

The election of Redeemers in 1874