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Galiyas History 9 - Chapter 10 Test (A)
Test Description: Galiyas History 9 - Chapter 10 Test (A)
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1) The Freedmen’s Bureau helped formerly enslaved people find work on plantations, negotiated labor contracts with planters that specified pay and hours, and
A
represented formerly enslaved people in Congress.
B
set up special courts to deal with grievances between workers and planters.
C
prosecuted groups such as the Ku Klux Klan that persecuted African Americans.
D
confiscated Confederate land and distributed it to formerly enslaved people.
2) The Republican majority in Congress passed the Command of the Army Act and the Tenure of Office Act in order to ensure that
A
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton would support their plan for Reconstruction.
B
they would be able to override any attempt by President Johnson to veto legislation.
C
General Ulysses S. Grant would accept the Republican nomination for president.
D
President Johnson would enforce the Military Reconstruction Act.
3) At the end of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in Congress had three main goals: to prevent the leaders of the Confederacy from returning to power, to make the Republican Party a powerful political force in the South, and to
A
outlaw groups that intimidated and attacked African Americans.
B
help African Americans achieve political equality.
C
create economic opportunities for African Americans.
D
provide land for African Americans to farm.
4) Under his “restoration program,” President Johnson offered to pardon all former citizens of the Confederacy who took an oath of loyalty to the Union, with the exception of former Confederate officers and officials as well as
A
any Confederate citizen with property worth more than $20,000.
B
formerly enslaved people who had acquired more than 40 acres of land.
C
Southern Democrats who remained in Congress throughout the Civil War.
D
Confederate soldiers accused of war crimes.
5) During Reconstruction, African Americans were able to vote in the South because of the
A
Fifteenth Amendment.
B
Military Reconstruction Act.
C
Freedmen’s Bureau.
D
Fourteenth Amendment.
6) To get the seed and supplies they needed, African Americans who had become sharecroppers after Reconstruction often had to rely on credit from
A
government agencies.
B
crop liens.
C
tenant farmers.
D
country stores.
7) After Reconstruction many African Americans were trapped in economic circumstances that severely limited their new freedom by the
A
crop-lien system and high interest rates.
B
growth of new industries in the South.
C
withdrawal of federal troops.
D
collapse of Republican state governments.
8) Under President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, a Southern state could organize a new state government when
A
75% of reparations owed to the federal government by the state had been paid.
B
50% of its residents had taken a loyalty oath and sworn to uphold U.S. laws.
C
10% of voters in the 1860 election had taken an oath of loyalty to the United States.
D
100% of enslaved African Americans in the state had been freed.
9) The chief objectives of the Wade-Davis Bill were to ensure that former Confederate states would remain loyal to the Union and to
A
secure African American rights.
B
end slavery forever.
C
punish former slaveholders.
D
rebuild the South.
10) In addition to providing support for formerly enslaved workers, the Freedmen’s Bureau made important contributions in the field of
A
industrialization.
B
health care.
C
education.
D
science.
11) Under the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, before former Confederate states could elect members to Congress, they had to
A
provide African Americans with jobs.
B
ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
C
deny rights to Confederate leaders.
D
ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.
12) Having won a roughly three-to-one majority in the elections of 1866, congressional Republicans could override any presidential
A
amendment.
B
impeachment.
C
veto.
D
proclamation.
13) .
A
.
B
.
C
.
D
.
14) The primary charge at President Johnson’s impeachment trial was that he had
A
violated the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing black codes to stand.
B
broken the law by issuing pardons to Confederate leaders.
C
taken bribes in exchange for appointments to government jobs.
D
broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act.
15) .
A
.
B
.
C
.
D
.
16) Southerners, particularly Democratic Party supporters, referred to Northerners who came to the South at the beginning of Reconstruction as
A
carpetbaggers.
B
scalawags.
C
radicals.
D
redeemers.
17) Some “scalawags”—white Southerners who worked with the Republicans and supported Reconstruction—were
A
officeholders in Southern state governments.
B
schoolteachers who educated both whites and African Americans.
C
wealthy planters who were looking for a way to regain power.
D
owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain power.
18) During the 1870s, Republican governments in the Southern states repealed the black codes, rebuilt roads and railways, and established a
A
transportation system
B
welfare system.
C
system of churches
D
system of public schools.
19) Despite the claims of some Southerners, the Republican Party was able to take power in the South because
A
Northern Republicans engaged in systematic voting fraud.
B
it had the support of a large number of poor white Southern farmers.
C
only newly freed African Americans were allowed to vote.
D
groups such as the Ku Klux Klan intimidated voters.
20) By 1876, about 40 percent of all African American children, or roughly 600,000 children,
A
had access to medical care.
B
attended school.
C
worked as sharecroppers.
D
were employed.
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