Quiz on Historical Events

All of the following are true statements about the Black Codes except

• blacks who fled their employers could be dragged back to work by a paid "Negro-catcher."

• they were designed to reproduce the master-slave relationship after slavery was abolished.

• blacks who fled could be made to forfeit back wages or hired out to pay their fines.

• they restricted the conditions under which blacks could legally marry.

The Senate voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson because

• they believed he was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.

• they wanted to set a precedent for future impeachments.

• they were convinced he had violated the Tenure of Office Act.

• they did not want to weaken the presidency.

Among the legacies of the Reconstruction effort were:

• Establishment of economic and political guarantees for southern blacks.

• A sense of resentment and grievance among white southerners.

• A drastic redistribution of wealth and radical economic reforms in the South.

• A national commitment to civil rights for all races in America.

Why had Andrew Johnson been put on Lincoln's ticket as vice president in his second term?

• As a safe choice in case Lincoln died in office.

• As a poor white who balanced Lincoln's aristocratic background.

• To appeal to War Democrats and pro-Union southerners.

• Because Lincoln's first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin, had displayed southern sympathies.

Congressional Reconstruction hoped to provide and enforce basic rights and protection for the former slaves in the South through the

• Fifteenth Amendment

• All of the above

• Freedmen's Bureau Act

• Fourteenth Amendment

Congress objected to the readmission of Southern states to the Union under Johnson's plan because

• it feared that the restored South would be stronger than ever in national politics.

• the South was refusing to add the 13th amendment.

• many former Confederates were refusing to leave high political office in those states.

• the states had adopted Black Codes that limited the civil rights of freed slaves.

During Reconstruction, African American women in the South assumed new political roles, which included all of the following except

• participating in political rallies.

• holding public office.

• organizing political meetings.

• voting in elections.

From 1878 to 1880, some twenty-five thousand blacks from Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, known as "the Exodusters", were

• a political organization developed by the freedmen.

• black church leaders who linked emancipation to the Book of Exodus.

• black migrants from the South to Northern cities.

As a child and young adult, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)

• misfit orphan.

• planter elitist.

• secret Confederate sympathizer.

• champion of the African American slave.

came to view secession and the Civil War as a tragic mistake.

• came to view secession and the Civil War as a tragic mistake.

• were ready to plan a future uprising against the United States.

• still believed that their view of secession was correct and their cause was just.