Multiple Choice Chapter 15 Self-Quiz 2

. The most important consideration for the freed people immediately after the war was

finding a steady wage.

reestablishing families torn apart by slavery.

ensuring they gained full civil and political rights.

eliminating the political rights of former slaveholders.

. The most shocking event to the nation in 1865 was

the Morant Bay Rebellion.

the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Courthouse.

the assassination of Lincoln.

the ease with which the freed people adjusted to life on their own.

. Edward Porter Alexander and other Confederate military officers

tried to organize a guerrilla military force to continue the fight for slavery.

organized the KKK.

decided siding with the Republicans was the best hope for economic recovery.

laid plans to flee the country.

. The biggest contributing factor in the Morant Bay Rebellion was

the denial of land and political power to former black Jamaicans.

the massacre at Colfax.

area slaveholders' refusal to accept the Emancipation Proclamation.

the example of the Haitian Revolution.

. What was instituted in 1865 that appeared to be a blatant attempt to reinstitute slavery?

apprenticeship laws

sharecropping

segregation

wage labor under contract

. After the war, the Republican Party held up what group as the purest expression of civic pride?

the Republican Party

freed people earning a living

veterans

women

. The 14th amendment granted voting rights to

only males.

"civilized" Indians.

those Mexicans who had lived in the United States since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

naturalized citizens.

. What pushed Congressional Republicans to take complete control of Reconstruction?

Johnson's lenient policies toward the South

increasingly violent racial politics in the South

the failure of southern Republicans to gain office in the South

their anger over United States v. Cruikshank

. At the heart of black communities in the postwar period was

schools.

churches.

the Freedmen's Bureau.

the black middle class.

. One of the benefits the freed people gained from sharecropping was

more autonomy over their work life.

the ability to purchase their own land after the harvest.

the ability to choose which crop they wanted to plant.

the right to contest their contract in court.

. The most important factor dividing southern urban black communities was

different levels of support for using violence to achieve political ends.

whether a person wanted to leave the South or not.

class.

gradations of skin color.

. 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

because the sugar industry made such large profits

because most of the industry was cooperatively owned

because they had specialized knowledge of the crop

. The Force Acts were meant to

impede the operation of the KKK.

compel Johnson to allow Congress to control Reconstruction.

impose five military districts on the South.

coerce southern blacks to vote for the Democratic Party.

. 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

fears of weakening Republicans at the polls in the North

the high financial cost of sending troops into the South

his personal belief that the problems in the South were exaggerated

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