15.0 - Module Pre-Test

Freed blacks

• A) most often demanded a redistribution of economic resources.
• B) only asked for legal equality.
• C) were nearly unanimous in their desire for independence from white control.
• D) generally remained involved in mixed-race churches.
• E) sought violent revenge for past wrongs.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• A) declared that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race.
• B) officially ended slavery.
• C) granted "citizenship" to the freed men.
• D) provided that states could only count three-fifths (60%) of their black population when determining how many members they could be given in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• E) opened up the West to homesteading by African Americans.

The "Black Codes" were a set of regulations established by

• A) the Congress to protect the rights of the former slaves to own property and to find employment.
• B) the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce the provisions of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
• C) the Northern states to prevent a massive influx of former slaves from entering their states and seeking homes and jobs.
• D) the Southern states to promote white supremacy and to control the economic and social activities of the freed men.
• E) the Southern states to ameliorate radical Reconstruction Acts.

In the late nineteenth century, the agricultural credit system in the South encouraged farmers

• A) to rely heavily on cash crops—especially cotton.
• B) to diversify away from cotton toward food grains and livestock.
• C) to adopt the use of mechanization on increasingly larger farms.
• D) to abandon farming and invest in capital-intensive manufacturing enterprises.
• E) to abandon their land and go west.

Ulysses S. Grant's election as president was largely a result of his being

• A) governor of New York during the postwar economic boom.
• B) a triumphant commanding general of the Union army.
• C) the popular administrator of the Freedmen's Bureau.
• D) a flamboyant cavalry officer in the western Indian wars.
• E) incorruptible.

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