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Chapter 16 Summative Quiz

Multiple Choice

Choose the letter of the best answer.

Question

1. In Lincoln's plan for reconstruction, what did a Confederate state need to do to qualify for readmission into the Union?

The state legislature had to guarantee the right to vote to all former slaves.

Fifty percent of the voting population needed to pledge allegiance to the United States before forming a new government.

Ten percent of the voting population needed to take an oath of allegiance before forming a new government.

High-ranking Confederate officials had to renounce their allegiance to the government in Richmond.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

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2. What was the goal of the Wade-Davis bill?

To guarantee freedmen equal protection before the law

To confiscate the property of ex-Confederates

To force three-fourths of voters in a former rebel state to take a loyalty oath

To grant forty acres and a mule to every male ex-slave

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is A.

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3. Why did many slaves travel immediately after gaining freedom?

Planters no longer wanted their work.

They refused to work.

Planters threatened them with violence.

They wanted to reunite their families.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

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4. Why did President Johnson's quick reconstruction of ex-Confederate states shock reformers?

His lenient terms for reconstruction belied his earlier states' rights stance.

He had long expressed a desire to destroy the southern planter aristocracy.

His harsh terms for reconstruction belied his earlier promises of leniency.

He failed to follow through on his promise to grant the freedmen voting rights.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

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5. Abraham Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plans shared an emphasis on

full amnesty to all former rebel soldiers.

limited voting rights for blacks.

the confiscation of rebel property.

ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

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6. According to the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, what did a state have to do before gaining readmission to Congress?

Allow men and women to vote on a new constitution

Write a new constitution that guaranteed black suffrage

Elect a Republican governor

Guarantee permanent employment for African Americans

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

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7. What was the real result of the Fifteenth Amendment?

It effectively restructured political power in the South until 1920.

It was undermined by literacy and property qualifications in southern states.

It immediately allowed women to vote in national elections.

It made the United States the first nation with universal adult suffrage.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.

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8. How influential were African American politicians during the period southern whites derisively called ìNegro domination?î

Only six percent of southerners in Congress during Reconstruction were black.

Blacks held a majority in over half the state legislatures for a short time.

African Americans held no elected office during Reconstruction.

Only states with black majorities elected blacks to office.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is A.

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9. Why did African Americans prefer sharecropping to wage labor?

Sharecropping placed blacks on equal footing with whites.

Most black sharecroppers became very wealthy.

White landlords provided black sharecroppers with housing for life.

Sharecropping freed blacks from the day-to-day supervision of whites.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

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10. What happened to most sharecroppers once they borrowed goods on a crop lien?

They made enough money to buy their own land.

They paid back their debt within a year.

They ended up in a cycle of debt.

They began growing food rather than cotton.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

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11. Supreme Court decisions in the years following the Civil War largely

promoted the Republican Radicals' agenda for civil rights.

expanded the power of the federal government.

undermined Reconstruction.

expanded voting rights.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

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12. The election controversy ended with the Compromise of 1877, in which

the Republican party was promised majority rule in Congress, and the Democratic party was promised lower taxes and home rule in the South.

southern Democrats accepted a Republican president in exchange for federal subsidies and the removal of federal troops from the South.

Republicans accepted Democratic rule in the White House in exchange for majority rule in Congress.

Republicans won lasting control of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana in exchange for supporting a Republican president.

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is B.