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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Owners of small businesses
B Scalawags
C African Americans
D Carpetbaggers
Question #2
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #3
A surrounded himself with skilled politicians.
B proved a decisive leader.
C vowed to work for the security of all citizens.
D became known for his anticorruption activities.
Question #4
A extend civil rights, although limited, to freedmen.
B extend to blacks the same rights that whites enjoyed.
C subordinate blacks to whites.
D provide blacks with economic opportunities.
Question #5
A Democrats won a majority of seats in the Senate.
B Republicans maintained slight majorities in both houses of Congress.
C Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives.
D Democrats won a majority in Congress and took most state governorships.
Question #6
A were denounced by President Johnson and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
B were state laws that controlled the lives of the black population.
C allowed former slaves to testify in court against whites.
D pleased northerners because they saw that the rule of law was returning to the South.
Question #7
A A not guilty verdict made him more powerful than ever.
B He was found guilty of the misuse and abuse of constitutional powers.
C The Court found him guilty of violating the Tenure of Office Act.
D He no longer interfered in Reconstruction.
Question #8
A offered amnesty and restoration of property (except slaves) to anyone who took a loyalty oath to the United States.
B he bribed a Republican senator to support his Reconstruction policies.
C he allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act.
D he sought to work with Congressional leadership in developing a joint plan for Reconstruction.
Question #9
A FALSE
B TRUE
Question #10
A Fifty percent of the voting population needed to pledge allegiance to the United States before forming a new government.
B Ten percent of the voting population needed to take an oath of allegiance before forming a new government.
C The state legislature had to guarantee the right to vote to all former slaves.
D High-ranking Confederate officials had to renounce their allegiance to the government in Richmond.
Question #11
The 33 hour bombardment of Fort Sumter Major Anderson surrendered to Confederate General Beauregard.
A TRUE
B FALSE
Question #12
A It targeted for military service every slaveholder with at least twenty slaves.
B It paid slaveholders scarce government funds for every twenty slaves they owned or supervised.
C It exempted any man who owned more than twenty slaves from military service.
D It forced every slaveholder with at least forty slaves to turn over twenty of them for use by the government.
Question #13
A expanded their power by drafting soldiers into the Confederate army.
B forced every state to issue resolutions in opposition to the Emancipation Proclamation.
C continued their staunch support of states’ rights critic Jefferson Davis.
D denied the right of West Virginians to create their own state.
Question #14
A They reported a Confederate victory and predicted that the Union would not take New Orleans.
B The newspapers praised the Union victory and were convinced that General Grant was going to win the war for the Union.
C They reported a Confederate victory and proclaimed the South had control of the Mississippi River.
D Despite being a Union victory the newspapers ridiculed General Grant and said he was a drunk.
Question #15
A He intended to infect Confederate camps with typhoid fever.
B He planned to have his men confiscate Georgians’ cotton and sell it to England.
C He planned to recruit former plantation slaves for the Union army.
D He orchestrated a scorched-earth military campaign aimed at destroying the will of the southern people.
Question #17
A bear arms.
B practice the religion of his or her choice.
C a speedy trial.
D be charged with a crime if arrested.
Question #18
A reassured the South that he had no intention to interfere with slavery where it existed.
B declared that he did not have the power to execute the law in states that had seceded.
C threatened to declare war if any more southern states seceded from the Union.
D promised he would not allow the South to fire the first shot in a civil war.
Question #19
A A Confederate victory forced Union commanders to question whether they could win the war.
B The Confederates forced the Union army out of the deep South.
C Union victory at Vicksburg gave Grant the advantage he sought in the western theater of war.
D Weeks of battle and horrendous casualties produced only a stalemate.
Question #20
A was confident that the transition to a peaceful nation would be relatively simple.
B gave no specifics about postwar plans, but seemed to support black suffrage.
C believed Democrats would support Republican peace policies.
D was confident that he would hold the office of president as long as he wanted it.
