Multiple Choice Questions On Reconstruction
Preparation for the First Examination Multiple Choice Questions:
1. According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?
A. whether the federal or state government was ultimately sovereign, and whether African Americans or Native Americans were the most oppressed minority group
B. which party would gain the ascendancy, and how the government could regulate the economy
C. the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the future of North-South economic and political relations
D. rebuilding the North's shattered economy, and restoring the South's shattered society
2. During the war, congressional leaders felt that Lincoln's plan ________, so they passed ________.
A. would cost them …show more content…
was acceptable; its essential provisions, but shifted primary responsibility to Congress 3. Both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans shared an intent to
A. provide economic assistance to former slaves.
B. punish the southern planter class for its rebellion.
C. liberally grant pardons to Confederate soldiers.
D. give Congress the final say in shaping the reconstruction process. 4. The Radical Republicans in Congress approached Reconstruction with each of the following convictions EXCEPT that
A. to heal the nation, the South should be treated with generosity and compassion.
B. to avoid any recurrence of southern resistance, the power of the planter class must be destroyed.
C. to complete the task of the war, slavery must be totally and irrevocably abolished.
D. to keep faith with the antislavery crusade, the rights of freedmen must be secured. 5. The southern response to war's end and Johnson's program of Reconstruction indicated
A. despair and defiance.
B. remorse and resolve to rebuild.
C. willingness to give an appearance of accommodation to northern desires.
D. grudging recognition that they had to repudiate their old-line Confederate leadership. 6. Under new president Andrew Johnson, presidential …show more content…
The central focus of its program was to protect the civil rights of blacks.
B. It sought to build Republican party support in the South by winning the black vote and curtailing the power of the planter class.
C. Its influence grew when Johnson's vetoes drove moderates into the Radical camp.
D. Its influence waned when northern voters repudiated Radical congressmen at the polls in 1866. 8. The central issue that divided Johnson and congressional Radicals was
A. the future place of African Americans in U.S. society.
B. how to win votes for the Republican party in the south.
C. whether the power of the planter class should be broken.
D. whether federal troops should be stationed as an occupying force in southern states.
9. The North interpreted black codes as
A. evidence that the South sought to keep freedmen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status.
B. evidence that the South, by granting limited rights such as allowing jury service, was slowly accommodating to an improved status for former slaves.
C. a realistic solution by the South to the problems created by sudden emancipation.
D. a dangerous experiment by the South that could lead to social equality for blacks in the
1. According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of Reconstruction?
A. whether the federal or state government was ultimately sovereign, and whether African Americans or Native Americans were the most oppressed minority group
B. which party would gain the ascendancy, and how the government could regulate the economy
C. the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the future of North-South economic and political relations
D. rebuilding the North's shattered economy, and restoring the South's shattered society
2. During the war, congressional leaders felt that Lincoln's plan ________, so they passed ________.
A. would cost them …show more content…
was acceptable; its essential provisions, but shifted primary responsibility to Congress 3. Both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans shared an intent to
A. provide economic assistance to former slaves.
B. punish the southern planter class for its rebellion.
C. liberally grant pardons to Confederate soldiers.
D. give Congress the final say in shaping the reconstruction process. 4. The Radical Republicans in Congress approached Reconstruction with each of the following convictions EXCEPT that
A. to heal the nation, the South should be treated with generosity and compassion.
B. to avoid any recurrence of southern resistance, the power of the planter class must be destroyed.
C. to complete the task of the war, slavery must be totally and irrevocably abolished.
D. to keep faith with the antislavery crusade, the rights of freedmen must be secured. 5. The southern response to war's end and Johnson's program of Reconstruction indicated
A. despair and defiance.
B. remorse and resolve to rebuild.
C. willingness to give an appearance of accommodation to northern desires.
D. grudging recognition that they had to repudiate their old-line Confederate leadership. 6. Under new president Andrew Johnson, presidential …show more content…
The central focus of its program was to protect the civil rights of blacks.
B. It sought to build Republican party support in the South by winning the black vote and curtailing the power of the planter class.
C. Its influence grew when Johnson's vetoes drove moderates into the Radical camp.
D. Its influence waned when northern voters repudiated Radical congressmen at the polls in 1866. 8. The central issue that divided Johnson and congressional Radicals was
A. the future place of African Americans in U.S. society.
B. how to win votes for the Republican party in the south.
C. whether the power of the planter class should be broken.
D. whether federal troops should be stationed as an occupying force in southern states.
9. The North interpreted black codes as
A. evidence that the South sought to keep freedmen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status.
B. evidence that the South, by granting limited rights such as allowing jury service, was slowly accommodating to an improved status for former slaves.
C. a realistic solution by the South to the problems created by sudden emancipation.
D. a dangerous experiment by the South that could lead to social equality for blacks in the