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Multiple Choice Chapter 15 Self-Quiz 2
Schaller, 3e_MC 15.2
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The most important consideration for the freed people immediately after the war was
finding a steady wage.
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reestablishing families torn apart by slavery.
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ensuring they gained full civil and political rights.
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eliminating the political rights of former slaveholders.
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The most shocking event to the nation in 1865 was
the Morant Bay Rebellion.
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the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Courthouse.
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the assassination of Lincoln.
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the ease with which the freed people adjusted to life on their own.
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Edward Porter Alexander and other Confederate military officers
tried to organize a guerrilla military force to continue the fight for slavery.
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organized the KKK.
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decided siding with the Republicans was the best hope for economic recovery.
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laid plans to flee the country.
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The biggest contributing factor in the Morant Bay Rebellion was
the denial of land and political power to former black Jamaicans.
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the massacre at Colfax.
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area slaveholders' refusal to accept the Emancipation Proclamation.
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the example of the Haitian Revolution.
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What was instituted in 1865 that appeared to be a blatant attempt to reinstitute slavery?
apprenticeship laws
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sharecropping
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segregation
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wage labor under contract
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After the war, the Republican Party held up what group as the purest expression of civic pride?
the Republican Party
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freed people earning a living
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veterans
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women
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The 14th amendment granted voting rights to
only males.
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"civilized" Indians.
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those Mexicans who had lived in the United States since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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naturalized citizens.
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What pushed Congressional Republicans to take complete control of Reconstruction?
Johnson's lenient policies toward the South
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increasingly violent racial politics in the South
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the failure of southern Republicans to gain office in the South
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their anger over United States v. Cruikshank
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At the heart of black communities in the postwar period was
schools.
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churches.
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the Freedmen's Bureau.
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the black middle class.
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One of the benefits the freed people gained from sharecropping was
more autonomy over their work life.
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the ability to purchase their own land after the harvest.
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the ability to choose which crop they wanted to plant.
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the right to contest their contract in court.
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The most important factor dividing southern urban black communities was
different levels of support for using violence to achieve political ends.
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whether a person wanted to leave the South or not.
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class.
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gradations of skin color.
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Why were sugar workers able to exercise more control over their labor than workers in most other agricultural industries?
because it was impossible to sharecrop sugar
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because the sugar industry made such large profits
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because most of the industry was cooperatively owned
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because they had specialized knowledge of the crop
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The Force Acts were meant to
impede the operation of the KKK.
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compel Johnson to allow Congress to control Reconstruction.
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impose five military districts on the South.
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coerce southern blacks to vote for the Democratic Party.
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In the 1870s, what was the main thing that kept Grant from sending troops to protect Republicans and blacks in the South?
their failure to support his reelection bid in 1872
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fears of weakening Republicans at the polls in the North
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the high financial cost of sending troops into the South
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his personal belief that the problems in the South were exaggerated
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