14. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 14: Reconstruction in South Carolina

**Quiz for Document 14.5: Ulysses S. Grant, Letter to South Carolina Governor D. H. Chamberlain (1876)**

Quiz for Document 14.5: Ulysses S. Grant, Letter to South Carolina Governor D. H. Chamberlain (1876)

Document 14.5: Ulysses S. Grant, Letter to South Carolina Governor D. H. Chamberlain (1876)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 14.13

1. In his letter to Chamberlain, Grant characterizes the events that took place in Hamburg as

unprecedented and uncalled for.

understandable but unprecedented.

common and unsurprising.

uncalled for but not unprecedented.

Question 14.14

2. When Grant refers to a Mississippi government that is run by “officials chosen through fraud and violence, such as would scarcely be accredited to savages, much less to a civilized and Christian people,” he is referring to

the state’s interracial Republican government.

the state’s racist Democratic government.

the state’s interracial Democratic government.

the state’s black Republican government.

Question 14.15

3. In his letter to Chamberlain, what federal decision does Ulysses Grant imply is imminent?

The end of federally mandated Reconstruction

An increase in federal troops occupying South Carolina

The expulsion of Republican leaders from the South

A plan to extend Reconstruction for another year

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