1. In McCullough v.
Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court confirmed the:(See chapter 10)
A. right of the federal government to tax states.
B. right of states to tax the Bank of the United States.
C. "implied
powers" of Congress.
D. right of states to prohibit the Bank of the United States.
E. right of states to abolish slavery within its borders.
2. Artisan workers:(See chapter 10)
A. successfully made the transition to factory work.
B. created the
nation's earliest trade unions.
C. had abandoned the republican vision of American work.
D. allied themselves with the new capitalist class.
E. developed a niche market catering to the middle class.
3. The railroad
network that developed during this period linked:(See chapter 10)
A. the Northeast to
the Northwest.
B. the Northeast to the Gulf Coast.
C. the East Coast to the West Coast.
D. New York to New Orleans.
E. Richmond to Atlanta.
4. Which of the
following helped enlarge the urban population in this era?(See chapter 10)
A. immigrants from Europe
B. declining productivity of many eastern farms
C. the growth of the population as a whole
D. All of the above
5. One cause of the
Panic of 1819 was:(See chapter 10)
A. decreased foreign demand for American agricultural goods.
B. restrictive credit practices prior to 1819.
C. the announcement that year that dozens of new state banks
were to be chartered.
D. a drop in the
demand for US cotton, when English textile manufacturers began importing from
India
E. an English embargo of American goods.
6. One of the
immediate results of the new transportation routes constructed during the
"canal age" was:(See chapter 10)
A. an increased white
settlement in the Northwest.
B. an increased white settlement in the Southwest.
C. the renewed cooperation between states and the national
environment on internal improvement projects.
D. the conviction that the national government should be
responsible for all internal improvements.
E. the dominance of steamboat transport.
7. The cotton gin
was invented by:(See chapter 10)
A. Robert Fulton.
B. Eli Whitney.
C. Samuel Slater.
D. Albert Gallatin.
E. Moses Brown.
8. The work of Eli
Whitney:(See chapter 10)
A. improved transportation in the South.
B. spurred the industrial revolution in the American South.
C. made the South a major textile-producing region.
D. led to the decline of slavery, for fewer workers were
needed to process cotton.
E. led to the
expansion of the cotton culture and slavery.
9. When compared to
working conditions in European industries, the Lowell mills were a paradise for
working women.(See chapter 10)
A. True
B. False
10. In the early
eighteenth century, the American Robert Fulton:(See chapter 10)
A. invented the steam engine.
B. made significant
advances in steam-powered navigation.
C. developed the nation's first merchant marine.
D. brought the first steam engines from England to the
United States.
E. launched America's first railroad engine, the Clermont,
in 1807.
11. The Marshall
Court upheld the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.(See chapter 10)
A. True
B. False
12. The South was
an important part of the national railroad network.(See chapter 10)
A. True
B. False
13. The American
"mountain men":(See chapter 10)
A. refused to consort with Mexican or Indian women.
B. were closely tied
to the expanding market economy of the United States.
C. generally got to keep the bulk of their profits.
D. established towns and villages to escape the isolation of
the frontier.
E. banded together to found the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
14. The lasting
significance of Gibbons v. Ogden was that it:(See chapter 10)
A. opened the way for steamboat travel on the Mississippi.
B. confirmed the state's right to regulate commerce.
C. made peace between the Court and the Adams
administration.
D. ruled that contracts could easily be violated.
E. defined the right
of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce.
15. The Supreme
Court ruling in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) was a victory for:(See chapter 10)
A. corporate
contracts.
B. the Republican Party.
C. state government.
D. public education.
E. state courts.
16. The Black Hawk War:(See chapter 11)
A.
was
notable for the cruel treatment of white settlers by Indians.
B.
saw
the Sauk and Foxes temporarily regain control of part of western Illinois.
C.
was
over before Jackson entered the White House.
D.
occurred because Black Hawk and his
followers refused to recognize a treaty by which they ceded their lands to the
U.S.
E.
cleared
the way for the settlement of Chicago.
17. The so-called "corrupt bargain" of
1824 involved:(See chapter 11)
A.
the
sale of public land to supporters of the Monroe administration.
B.
political
payoffs and bribery involving the Treasury Department.
C.
illegal
contracts between the State Department and private corporations.
D.
federal
funds for internal improvements to certain states in exchange for electoral
votes.
E.
a political deal to determine the
outcome of the presidential election.
18. When the Bank of the United States died in 1836,
the country was left with a fragmented and chronically unstable banking system.(See chapter 11)
A.
True
B.
False
19. In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Marshall
Court ruled that:(See chapter 11)
A.
individual
states could try tribal members in a state court
B.
American
Indian tribes had to submit to individual state laws.
C.
as
President, Jackson could call for the tribes removal from their lands
D.
Georgia had no right to extend its laws
over Cherokee territory.
E.
Georgia
had the right to extend its laws over Cherokee territory.
20. To many in 1828, the election of Andrew Jackson
as president was a victory for the "common man."(See chapter 11)
A.
True
B.
False
21. The "spoils system" refers to:(See chapter 11)
A.
making
illegal payoffs to political supporters.
B.
giving
away land taken from Indians to white settlers.
C.
the
destruction of land by overly aggressive settlement.
D.
giving out jobs as political rewards.
E.
parceling
out federal land to the highest bidder.
22. In the Election of 1824, Jackson claimed he had
won the election, but according to the Constitution he lost the election
because:(See chapter 11)
A.
he
did not receive the majority of the popular votes
B.
he did not receive the majority of the
electoral college votes
C.
he
did not receive the majority of popular and electoral college votes
D.
many
of the people who voted for him cast illegal ballots
23. Adams's nationalistic program, which was a lot
like Clay's American System, was not funded because:(See chapter 11)
A.
the
nation could not afford it.
B.
business
opposed it.
C.
western
interests opposed it.
D.
Jackson's supporters in Congress voted
against it.
E.
Daniel
Webster opposed it and led a filibuster.
24. During the age of Jackson, politics became open
to virtually all the nation's white male citizens.(See chapter 11)
A.
True
B.
False
25. The Cherokee were supported in their
unsuccessful battle against removal by:(See chapter 11)
A. President
Jackson.
B. the Supreme Court.
C. Congress.
D. the state of
Georgia.
E. the state of
North Carolina.
26. During the first decades of the nineteenth
century the American view of Indians as "noble savages" changed to a
view of them simply as "savages."(See chapter 11)
A.
True
B.
False
27. In his victory in 1828, Jackson drew his
greatest support from the:(See chapter 11)
A.
South and the West.
B.
New
England region and the Southeast.
C.
Middle
Atlantic states and the Old Northwest.
D.
South
and the Middle Atlantic states.
E.
New
England and the Middle Atlantic.
28. The Seminole:(See chapter 11)
A. were never completely removed from their lands in Florida.
B. were removed
after a long military struggle with the U.S. Army.
C. lost 1/3 of
their tribe on the "Trail of Tears."
D. managed to kill
100 American soldiers before they surrendered.
E. raided southern
Georgia and Alabama until the Civil War.
29. The advance of the southern frontier meant the
spread not just of cotton but also of slavery.(See chapter 11)
A.
True
B.
False
30. In 1832, supporters of President Jackson held a
national convention in order to:(See chapter 11)
A.
force
the opposition to make their case in public.
B.
bring
more public attention to their candidate.
C.
have
greater control of the nominating process.
D.
shore
up Jackson's shaky support among voters in the Northeast.
E.
make the nominating process more
democratic.
31. Transcendentalists:(See chapter 12)
A. rejected European intellectuals.
B. emphasized
feeling over reason
C. argued that emotional responses
inhibited the internal development of individuals.
D. rejected the beliefs of Romanticism
E. argued for submission to traditional
authority
32. The most noted black abolitionist of the day was:(See chapter 12)
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
B. William Lloyd Garrison.
C. Frederick
Douglass.
D. Joseph Smith.
E. Benjamin Lundy.
33. During the Second Great Awakening, the Indian
revivalist Handsome Lake called for:(See chapter 12)
A. the adoption by Indian tribes of
white American culture.
B. an armed Indian rebellion against
white American society.
C. the United States to live up to its
broken treaties with Indian tribes.
D. the return of lands taken from Indian
tribes by the United States.
E. the
restoration of traditional Indian culture.
34. The revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was
essentially restricted to white people.(See chapter 12)
A. True
B. False
35. The Second Great Awakening succeeded in restoring to
prominence traditional doctrines such as predestination.(See chapter 12)
A. True
B. False
36. The Mormons were forced to abandon their settlement
at Nauvoo due to persecution from neighbors.(See chapter 12)
A. True
B. False
37. In the early nineteenth century the idea of
colonization, which involved the transporting of free black Americans to
Africa:(See chapter 12)
A. was
strongly opposed by free African Americans as being proslavery and antiblack
B. was strongly supported by free
African Americans
C. was strongly supported by William
Lloyd Garrison.
D. carried out a large-scale
resettlement of freed slaves.
E. was strongly opposed by southern
white slave owners
38. In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided:(See chapter 12)
A. by radicals and moderates within
their ranks.
B. over whether or not to use violence.
C. by calls for northern and southern
separation.
D. over the question of female equality.
E. All
these answers are correct.
39. In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness
in the United States:(See chapter 12)
A. linked
alcohol to crime and poverty.
B. grew largely out of immigrant
communities.
C. was actively opposed by a large
majority of Americans.
D. remained a minor social movement.
E. spent much of its time and resources
battling evangelical Protestants.
40. Evangelical Protestantism added major strength to
which of the following reforms?(See chapter 12)
A. temperance
B. education and rehabilitation
C. women's rights
D. peace
E. abolitionism
41. Which of the following was arguably the most
distinctive feature of Shakerism?(See chapter 12)
A. the admittance of women only
B. communal raising of children
C. polygamy
D. free love
E. complete
celibacy
42. Although it sold well, the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
had little impact on American antislavery attitudes.(See chapter 12)
A. True
B. False
43. Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially
failures as communal experiments.(See chapter 12)
A. True
B. False
44. To abolitionist, slavery was a question of morality,
not economics.(See chapter 12)
A. True
B. False
45. The message of the Second Great Awakening:(See chapter 12)
A. called
for an active and fervent piety.
B. restored the traditional belief in
predestination.
C. incorporated the belief of skeptical
rationalism.
D. found its greatest number of converts
among young men.
E. was rejected by most women as being
retrograde and reactionary.
46. Within the American South, the institution of
slavery:(See chapter 13)
A. isolated blacks and whites
from each other.
B. created a unique bond
between masters and slaves.
C. encouraged blacks to
develop a society and culture of their own.
D. created a unique bond between masters and slaves, while
isolating blacks and whites from each other and encouraging blacks to develop a
society and culture of their own.
E. None of these answers is
correct.
47. Slave families:(See chapter 13)
A. consistently operated on the model of the "nuclear
family."
B. condemned premarital
pregnancies.
C. generally lived on a single
plantation.
D. did not place much emphasis
on extended kinship networks.
E. emulated white family
values.
48. The South, like the North, changed from an
agricultural to an industrial economy during this period.(See chapter 13)
A. True
B. False
49. Ways in which slaves expressed elements of their
African heritage included:(See chapter 13)
A. singing songs and through stories such as folktales,
which used animals as symbolic models for their predicament. banjo.
B. keeping family diaries and
other written personal records.
C. wearing clothing that
incorporated traditional African designs or colors.
D. speaking in their native
African languages when out of the presence of whites.
E. celebrating traditional
African feasts and rites of passage, in defiance of white law.
50. During the first half of the nineteenth century, the
"Cotton Kingdom":(See chapter 13)
A. was already losing ground
to other staples, such as rice and tobacco.
B. saw wealthy planters
outnumber small planters.
C. did not rely on large
numbers of slaves imported directly from Africa.
D. was the dominant source of the income of the lower South.
E. still had not adopted the
cotton gin, despite the time and resources it saved.
51. Which of the following was NOT a condition of slave
life in the South?(See chapter 13)
A. an adequate if rough diet
B. hard work, even for women
and children
C. the freedom to use the time after work as they wished
D. isolation and control
E. the ability to keep their
families intact
52. The "peculiar institution" was a southern
reference to:(See chapter 13)
A. the plantation.
B. manufacturing.
C. capitalism.
D. slavery.
E. democracy.
53. Most southern whites who did not own slaves opposed
slavery and resented the planter class.(See chapter 13)
A. True
B. False
54. The typical white southerner was:(See chapter 13)
A. a planter with many slaves
and a lot of land.
B. a small-town merchant or
professional man.
C. extremely poor.
D. a modest yeoman farmer.
E. a hunter/trapper.
55. Prior to 1860, free blacks in the South:(See chapter 13)
A. were concentrated in the
Deep South.
B. were required by law to
leave the South.
C. increased in number in the
1850s as laws encouraged owners to free "surplus" slaves.
D. occasionally attained wealth and prominence and owned
slaves themselves.
E. avoided urban centers such
as New Orleans or Natchez where they might attract attention.
56. The expansion of southern agriculture from 1820 to
1860 was due to the expanded cultivation of:(See chapter 13)
A. western rice.
B. tobacco in Kentucky.
C. Louisiana sugar.
D. short-staple cotton in the Black Belt.
E. long-staple cotton on the
Carolina-Georgia coast.
57. For the most part, slaves rejected Christianity.(See chapter 13)
A. True
B. False
58. In the South, small farmers, often as much as great
planters, were committed to the plantation system.(See chapter 13)
A. True
B. False
59. The South had a "colonial" economy in that:(See chapter 13)
A. most of its land was owned
by outside interests.
B. it employed slave labor.
C. it produced raw materials and purchased finished
products.
D. it had little political
power.
E. it was taxed without
representation.
60. Society in the antebellum South placed the plantation
owner at the top of the social order.(See chapter 13)
A. True
B. False
61. According to the textbook authors the real cost of
the war was:
(See chapter 14)
(See chapter 14)
A. it turned America into a colonial
power
B. forced
the explosive slavery issue to the center of national politics
C. 13,000 American lives
D. $97 million dollars
62. When Congress prohibited slavery in 1848 in the newly
organized Oregon Territory southerners agreed, recognizing that the region was
too far north to grow the South's staple crops.(See chapter 14)
A. True
B. False
63. All of the following are terms of the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo, EXCEPT:(See chapter 14)
A. officially
set the Nueces River as the official US Mexican border
B. agreed to pay 15 million dollars to
Mexico.
C. transferred half of Mexico's territory,
including Texas to the US
D. assumed all of the outstanding claims
that US citizens had filed against Mexico.
64. Some advocates of Manifest Destiny believed the
United States should control the Western Hemisphere.(See chapter 14)
A. True
B. False
65. Indian attack was the greatest danger westward
immigrants faced.(See chapter 14)
A. True
B. False
66. California's population was very homogeneous.(See chapter 14)
A. True
B. False
67. The Compromise
of 1850 allowed for the admission of California:(See chapter 14)
A. as a slave state.
B. along
with a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act.
C. along with an agreement to construct
a transcontinental railroad.
D. with the agreement that there would
be no additional states added for ten years.
E. as a free state, along with Utah and
New Mexico as slave states.
68. By the end of the 1840s, the territory of the United
States included:(See chapter 14)
A. all of the nation's current
territory.
B. the entire territory of the current
continental United States.
C. nearly
the entire territory of the current continental United States.
D. the entire continental United States
east of the Rockies.
E. the Gadsden Purchase.
69. The Wilmot Proviso:(See chapter 14)
A. went into law without the president's
signature.
B. was supported by southern militants.
C. was a compromise acceptable to the
South and the North but not the West.
D. drew very little attention outside of
Congress.
E. passed
the House but not the Senate.
70. Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was the most
upsetting to Northerners?(See chapter 14)
A. admission of California as a free
state
B. opening of New Mexico and Utah
territories to slavery under popular sovereignty
C. reduction of Texas to its present
boundaries
D. enactment
of the new Fugitive Slave Law
E. prohibition of slavery in the
District of Columbia
71. Which
statement about Mormonism is FALSE?(See chapter 14)
A. Its founder was murdered.
B. It
advocated sexual equality.
C. Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
D. They successfully set up a territory
in the west they called Deseret.
E. Early Mormons met with much
persecution from their neighbors.
72. In the 1820s, the United States and Britain jointly
occupied Oregon.(See chapter 14)
A. True
B. False
73. Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west
on the overland trails were generally:(See chapter 14)
A. relatively
young people who traveled in family groups.
B. over the age of thirty.
C. from the eastern seaboard states.
D. wealthy.
E. domestic servants and prostitutes.
74. In 1836, the Battle of the Alamo:(See chapter 14)
A. saw the American garrison executed
after it had surrendered.
B. saw
the death of Davy Crockett.
C. began the Mexican War.
D. led Americans in Texas to proclaim
their independence from Mexico.
E. was a surprising victory for American
forces in Texas.
75. In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the
acquisition of:(See chapter 14)
A. Oregon.
B. Texas.
C. Cuba.
D. Oregon
and Texas.
E. Cuba and Texas.
76. In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun
stated that slavery was: (See chapter 15)
A. likely to be adopted by non-slave
states within fifty years.
B. a "necessary evil."
C. a
"positive good."
D. likely to end in the United States
within fifty years.
E. the "American way of life."
77. Abolitionism and "free soil" were
essentially the same thing.(See chapter 15)
A. True
B. False
78. Southern defenders of slavery made all of the
following arguments EXCEPT that:(See chapter 15)
A. southern slaves enjoyed better
conditions than northern industrial workers.
B. blacks were inherently unfit to take
care of themselves.
C. slavery allowed whites and blacks to
live together peacefully.
D. black
codes protected slaves from abuse.
E. the southern way of life was superior
to any other in the world.
79. At Fort Sumter: (See chapter 15)
A. President Lincoln resupplied the
federal troops in time to avoid an armed conflict.
B. Major Anderson managed to withstand
the bombardment of the Confederates and keep the Fort in Union hands.
C. the
Confederates fired the first shot of the Civil War.
D. the Union Army fired the first shots
of the war.
E. Major Anderson surrendered right
after the first shot.
80. The Dred Scott decision represented a stunning defeat
for the pro-slavery movement.(See chapter 15)
A. True
B. False
81. The Supreme Court held in the case of Dred Scott v.
Sandford (1857):(See chapter 15)
A. that Scott must be freed under
federal law.
B. slaves were property unless they
moved to a free state.
C. states were not allowed to abolish
slavery within their borders.
D. the freedom of a slave could not be
purchased by a black person.
E. the
Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
82. The Lecompton constitution was a pro-slavery
document.(See chapter 15)
A. True
B. False
83. Which of the following statements regarding the
Kansas-Nebraska Act is FALSE?(See chapter 15)
A. set that popular sovereignty would
determine the status of slavery in both territories
B. It led to the breakup of the Whig
Party.
C. It created two new territories.
D. It explicitly repealed the Missouri
Compromise.
E. It
determined the Kansas would be slave and Nebraska would be free to maintain
balance in the Senate
84. Stephen Douglas was a strong opponent of the
transcontinental railroad.(See chapter 15)
A. True
B. False
85. Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner were on opposite
sides in the battle over "bleeding Kansas."(See chapter 15)
A. True
B. False
86. Which of the following helped enlarge the urban
population in this era?(See chapter 15)
A. immigrants from Europe
B. declining productivity of many
eastern farms
C. the growth of the population as a
whole
D. All
of the above
87. The political party that came into being largely in
response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:(See chapter 15)
A. the
Republican Party.
B. the Know-Nothings.
C. the Populist Party.
D. the Abolitionist Party.
E. the Jayhawk Party.
88. In the 1850s, the issue of slavery complicated the
proposal to build a transcontinental railroad, as:(See chapter 15)
A. it raised the question of whether or
not slaves would be used as railroad labor.
B. non-slave-owning
northerners and slave-owning southerners could not agree on a route.
C. British banks refused to help fund
the project as long as slavery existed in the United States.
D. it raised the question of whether or
not slaves would be used as railroad labor, and British banks refused to help
fund the projects as long as slavery existed in the U.S.
E. None of these answers is correct.
89. The single event that did the most to convince white
southerners they could not live safely in the Union was:(See chapter 15)
A. the election of Lincoln.
B. the Pottawatomie Massacre.
C. John
Brown's raid.
D. the Dred Scott decision.
E. the split of the Democratic Party at
the 1860 convention.
90. In the 1850s, the "Young America" movement:(See chapter 15)
A. called for a national resolution of
the slave controversy.
B. supported
the expansion of American democracy throughout the world.
C. was promoted by Whigs.
D. called for a constitutional ban on
slavery.
E. believed America should avoid the
slavery controversy by limiting future expansion.
91. The greatest source of division in the South was:(See chapter 16)
A. the
doctrine of states' rights.
B. the difference of opinion over the
war.
C. the question of whether to use slaves
in combat.
D. over "King Cotton
diplomacy."
E. the role of women in the war effort.
92. Which of the following was true when the Civil War
began?(See chapter 16)
A. All
the important material advantages lay with the North.
B. The South had the active support of
England.
C. Southern industry was sufficient to
conduct a war.
D. The Union was prepared for a long
war.
E. The Union had the active support of
France.
93. No European nation offered diplomatic recognition to
the Confederacy.(See chapter 16)
A. True
B. False
94. In both the North and the South, the draft was
accepted with little protest.(See chapter 16)
A. True
B. False
95. George McClellan was the most important military
commander in the Union.(See chapter 16)
A. True
B. False
96. African American soldiers in the Union:(See chapter 16)
A. constituted a large segment of the
initial volunteers who joined the war effort.
B. died in combat in larger numbers than
white soldiers.
C. were not paid for their military
service.
D. experienced
a higher mortality rate than white soldiers.
E. were allowed only to dig trenches and
transport water.
97. Many southerners believed that the dependence of
English and French textile industries on American cotton would force them to
intervene on the side of the Confederacy.(See chapter 16)
A. True
B. False
98. Which of the following was an advantage enjoyed by
the South at the outset of the war?(See chapter 16)
A. It would be fighting, for the most
part, a defensive war.
B. Most of the white population of the
South supported the war.
C. Northern opinion on the war was
divided.
D. The South had better military
commanders.
E. All
these answers are correct.
99. Although Lincoln himself proved to be the most
important Union military commander, "his general" was:(See chapter 16)
A. George McClellan.
B. Ulysses
S. Grant.
C. George Meade
D. William Tecumseh Sherman.
100. During the Civil War, the Union financed the war by
all of the following methods, EXCEPT:(See chapter 16)
A. levied the first federal income tax
B. borrowed money through the sale of
bonds.
C. sold
160 acres of public land very cheaply through the Homestead Act
D. issued greenbacks (paper money)
E. were backed by gold and silver.
101. The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves:(See chapter 16)
A. in the North as well as the South.
B. in
areas of the Confederacy except those already under Union control.
C. and offered compensation to the
masters in slave states that remained loyal to the Union.
D. in the South but offered to return
them to masters who declared their loyalty to the Union.
E. in southern areas already under Union
control.
102. After the Battle of Gettysburg, the weakened
Confederate armies were never again able to seriously threaten Northern
territory.(See chapter 16)
A. True
B. False
103. "Copperheads" were:(See chapter 16)
A. northerners who secretly spied for
the Confederacy.
B. often
arrested on the order of President Lincoln.
C. largely members of the Republican
Party.
D. intent on using the Civil War to
rapidly end slavery.
E. strong Lincoln supporters who often
suppressed dissent violently.
104. When the war began, which of the following border
slave states was the only one certain to remain in the Union?(See chapter 16)
A. Maryland
B. Missouri
C. Delaware
D. Kentucky
105. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:(See chapter 16)
A. declared that the right to vote could
not be denied on account of race.
B. officially
ended slavery.
C. granted "citizenship" to
the freedmen.
D. provided that states could only count
three-fifths (60%) of their black population when determining how many members
they would be given in the U.S. House of Representatives.
E. opened up the West to homesteading by
African Americans.
106. The Tenure of Office Act and the Command of the Army
Act were passed by Congress to prevent southern states from sending former
Confederates to Congress or from having them control the state militia
companies.(See chapter 17)
A. True
B. False
107. The "Black Codes" were a set of regulations
established by:(See chapter 17)
A. the Congress to protect the rights of
the former slaves to own property and to find employment.
B. the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce the
provisions of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution.
C. the northern states to prevent a
massive influx of former slaves from entering their states and seeking homes
and jobs.
D. the
southern states to promote white supremacy and to control the economic and
social activities of the freed men.
E. the southern states to ameliorate
radical Reconstruction Acts.
108. In the period from the end of Reconstruction into
the twentieth century, the Democratic Party was the political party of the vast
majority of southern whites.(See chapter 17)
A. True
B. False
109. The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult
than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.(See chapter 17)
A. True
B. False
110. Northern white Republicans who relocated to the
south during reconstruction were called:(See chapter 17)
A. Scalawags
B. Redeemers
C. Black Republicans
D. Carpetbaggers
111. In 1865, southern blacks defined "freedom"
as:(See chapter 17)
A. independence from white control.
B. acquiring the legal rights to live as
did whites.
C. land reform.
D. All
of the above
112. Ulysses S. Grant's election as president was largely
a result of his being:
(See chapter 17)
(See chapter 17)
A. governor of New York during the
postwar economic boom.
B. a
triumphant commanding general of the Union army.
C. the popular administrator of the
Freedmen's Bureau.
D. a flamboyant cavalry officer in the
western Indian wars.
E. incorruptible.
113. The growing conflict between President Johnson and
the Radical Republicans was manifested in all of the following actions EXCEPT:(See chapter 17)
A. he vetoed the bill extending the life
of the Freedman's Bureau
B. he vetoed a civil rights bill
designed to overturn the more flagrant provisions of the black codes
C. in 1865 when southern representatives
to Congress appeared in Washington, a majority in Congress voted to exclude
them
D. he
convinced his home state Tennessee to refuse to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
114. Black sharecropping:(See chapter 17)
A. represented a continuation of the
pre-Civil War gang-labor system.
B. differed sharply from the tenant
system.
C. usually led to economic independence.
D. was
a very common occupation of former slaves.
E. involved close white supervision
which recalled the days of slavery.
115. Which of the following became essential institutions
in the black community in the south during Reconstruction?(See chapter 17)
A. black church and Freedman's Bureau
offices
B. Freedman's Bureau and Freedman's
Courthouse
C. the
schoolhouse and the black church
D. Republican Party offices and
Freedman's Courthouse
116. Even though the House's impeachment charges were
nominally based on specific "high crimes and misdemeanors," Andrew
Johnson was actually convicted by the Senate and removed from the presidency
for petty political reasons.(See chapter 17)
A. True
B. False
117. President Abraham Lincoln's "ten percent"
plan for the South referred to:(See chapter 17)
A. the area of land in each state that
should be reserved for former slaves.
B. the ratio of federal to state money
to be spent in rebuilding the southern economy.
C. the ratio of federal troops to freed
slaves in each Southern state.
D. the percentage of freed slaves who
must be given the vote before setting up a state government.
E. the
number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state
government.
118. The first Reconstruction Act contained all of the
following provisions EXCEPT:(See chapter 17)
A. barred former Confederates from
registering to vote and holding office
B. required the first state legislatures
to meet under the new constitution drafted by their state conventions to ratify
the Fourteenth Amendment
C. required military officials to
register black adult males to vote
D. required
ratification of the new state constitutions by only a majority of those voting
rather than those who were registered
119. The elections of 1876 saw:(See chapter 17)
A. the Supreme Court decide the
presidential election.
B. a Democrat become president for the
first time since the Civil War.
C. the
candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.
D. Ulysses Grant make an unsuccessful
bid for an unprecedented third term.
E. the governor of New York become
president.
120. By the late 1890s, a significantly smaller portion
of southern blacks was allowed to vote than in the late 1860s.(See chapter 17)
A. True
B. False
