CA #1 US History 1

Why is the Bill of Rights an important part of the U.S. Constitution?

• It defines the role of the courts

• It protects American's personal freedoms

• It explains how congressional seats are to be allocated

• It discusses the role the new country will have in international affairs

“Free soil, Free speech, Free labor, and Free men”

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Which part of this motto, adopted by the Free-Soil Party of the 1840s, reflects one of the founding principles preserved in the Bill of Rights?

• Free So

• Free men

• Free labor

• Free speech

Which groups of citizens dominated the Republican Party after the Civil War?

• former southern plantation owners, scalawags, former Union soldiers

• freed African Americans, former Union soldiers, businessmen

• scalawags, freed African Americans, carpetbaggers

• former southern plantation owners, carpetbaggers, northern businessmen

After refusing to recognize Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan, Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill. What did it require?

• It required a new state constitution and an oath of loyalty to the Union by all former Confederate military leaders. 

• Former members of the Confederacy had to personally apply for a pardon; African American rights had to be recognized.

• Ten percent of at least four Confederate states had to pledge loyalty; Freedmen’s Bureaus in the states were mandatory.

• A majority of a state’s prewar voters had to pledge an oath of loyalty to the Union; guarantees of African American equality were also required.

While the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson did not end as the Republicans hoped, how did they benefit anyway?

• President Johnson’s term was shortened.

• During the trial, President Johnson promised to enforce the Reconstruction Acts.

• President Johnson’s action prompted the Supreme Court to reconsider some legislation.

• President Johnson helped the Republicans to push through the Fifteenth Amendment.

Why did Booker T. Washington think that African Americans should not devote their energies to overturning Jim Crow laws? 

• He advocated an aggressive plan with professional careers, college educations, and a demand for political and social rights. 

• He agreed with W.E.B. Du Bois that African Americans needed to pursue a strong education and push for integration at all levels of society. 

• He advised African Americans to develop vocational skills that would eventually lead to economic equality. 

• He suggested that African Americans gain skills and then return to Africa.

How were the Enforcement Acts intended to protect citizens?

• They made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote.

• They stated that anyone who tried to prevent voting from taking place would be fined.

• They required that the local militia guard voting places used by African Americans.

• They banned the use of threats or weapons to block access to voting places.

Why was the Fifteenth Amendment unable to protect African Americans’ voting rights?

• The Fifteenth Amendment applied only to some districts.

• States were still able to impose voting restrictions based on literacy or paying a fee.

• Some states refused to recognize constitutional amendments.

• The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with citizenship rather than voting rights.

How did the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson affect both the North and the South?

• It supported the Reconstruction amendments

• It ended segregation on public transportation.

• It established the basis for separate but equal facilities.

• It dismantled Jim Crow laws.

The old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth. The new South presents a perfect democracy . . . and a diversified industry that meets the complex needs  of this complex age.” 

—Henry Grady, 1866

Henry Grady speech given to the New England Society on December 21, 1886.

The author of this quotation would most likely support which of these economic approaches?

• building more textile mills in the South

• planting more cash crops for overseas export

• developing more farm cartels for economies of scale

• shipping more raw materials to the North for processing