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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A the legality of segregation.
B the arguments of Booker T. Washington.
C restrictions on black education.
D the crime of lynching.
E the loss of black voting rights.
Question #2
A was nominated by both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
B won a huge victory.
C relied on many of his former military advisors to join his administration.
D ran against Republican Reconstruction policies.
E entered the White House with no political experience.
Question #3
A private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination.
B communities could have schools for whites only, even if there were no schools for blacks.
C racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations.”
D the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional.
E segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.
Question #4
A most Southern black women played a role in the family that was very different from that of white women.
B roughly half of all black women were working for wages.
C black women still could not marry with any legal standing.
D most Southern black women did field work.
E most black women did not hold a job.
Question #5
A every Senate Republican voted to convict.
B a majority of senators voted to acquit.
C Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.
D Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.
E Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.
Question #6
A cruel and unusual punishment.
B slavery.
C suffrage.
D citizenship.
E income tax.
Question #7
A gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
B gave voting rights to all male Americans.
C was written in such a way as to appease the woman’s suffrage movement.
D was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
E ended slavery throughout the United States.
Question #8
A vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
B passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
C designed to give whites control over freedmen.
D enacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
E holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
Question #9
A quickly became the law of the land.
B essentially followed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plans.
C was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild.
D sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.
E denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for 10 years.
Question #10
A independence from white control.
B All these answers are correct.
C an end to slavery.
D the ability to return to their ancestral homelands.
E immediate representation in the U.S. Congress.
