Understanding Reconstruction: Challenges and Changes in Post-Civil War America

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3. The poll tax, the literacy test, and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of • A:The Supreme Courts decision in Brown vs. Board of Education • B:The 14th and 15th amendments • C:Civil rights legislation passed in all states after the civil war • D:Immigration laws such as the Chinese Exclusion Act $100 Question

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6. The Jim Crow laws of the Post Civil War Era were attempts by • A:State and local governments to restrict the freedoms of the African Americans • B:States to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan • C:The Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans • D:The Federal Government to improve the status of African Americans and Native American Indians $200 Question

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9. In their plans for Reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson sought to? • A:Punish the South for starting the Civil War • B:Force the South to pay reparations to the Federal Government • C:Allow the Southern States to reenter the nation as quickly as possible • D:Establish the Republican party as the only political party in the South $300 Question

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12. After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because • A:The amendments were not intended to solve problems • B:Many African Americans distrusted the Federal Government • C:Southern legislators enacted the Jim Crow laws • D:Poor communication kept people from learning about their legal rights $500 Question

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15. Which newspaper headline would have appeared during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War? • A:“Former Slaves Made Citizens” • B:“Supreme Court Issues Dred Scott Decision” • C:“Jim Crow Laws End” • D:“Emancipation Proclamation Issued” $1,000 Question

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18. Which statement most accurately describes President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War? • A:Southerners should be made to pay for their rebellion • B:African Americans should be given free land • C:The Union should be restored as quickly as possible • D:War damages should be collected through military occupation $2,000 Question

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21. Following Reconstruction the term New South was most often used to describe • A:New attitudes in race relations • B:Changes in the Southern economy • C:The growth of the Republican party in the South • D:The decline of the sharecropping system $4,000 Question

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24. The underlying reason for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was: • A:The Credit Mobilier scandal • B:A power struggle with Congress over Reconstruction • C:His refusal to appoint new justices to the Supreme Court • D:His policies towards Native American Indians $8,000 Question

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27. The Jim Crow legal system, which expanded in the South after Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), was based on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the ? • A:Due process clause under the 5th Amendment • B:States’ rights provisions under the 10th Amendment • C:Equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment • D:Voting rights provisions in the 15th Amendment $16,000 Question

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30. What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War ? • A:It brought investment capital to the South • B:It encouraged Northerners to migrate south • C:It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent • D:It provided for a fairer distribution of farm profits $32,000 Question

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33. The institution of slavery war formally abolished in the United States by the • A:Compromise of 1850 • B:Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 • C:Ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865 • D:The creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865 $64,000 Question

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36. In the ten years following the Civil War, a large numbers of former slaves earned a living by becoming • A:Conductors on the Underground Railroad • B:Workers in Northern factories • C:Sharecroppers on Southern farms • D:Gold miners in California $125,000 Question

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39. During the late 1800’s, Southern voters solidly supported the Democratic Party primarily because Democrats • A:Favored a stronger national government • B:Led efforts to advance civil rights • C:Disliked the Reconstruction programs of the Republicans • D:Opposed the Jim Crow legal system $250,000 Question

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42. Many Southern States tried to limit the effects of Radical Republicans by • A:Adopting federal laws mandating segregation • B:Abolishing the Southern sharecropping system • C:Enacting Jim Crow laws • D:Securing passage of new amendments of the United States Constitution $500,000 Question

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45. Which statement best summarizes the beliefs of Booker T. Washington • A:The best solution for African Americans was to return to Africa • B:Social equality for African Americans would be easier to achieve than legal rights • C:The most immediate means for African Americans to achieve equality was to expand their opportunities for vocational education • D:The way to dissolve the barriers of segregation and bring about an end to Jim Crow laws was by active, violent resistance $1 Million Question

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