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- Many of these working-class families were forced to live in small, dirty neighborhoods, usually in single-room ________ housing.
- . All of the following were involved in scandals during the Grant administration EXCEPT A. President Ulysses Grant. B. Secretary of War William Belknap. C. Vice President Schuyler Colfax. D. Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow. E. None of these answers is correct; all were involved in scandals.
- To have a working ____ meant you were '___ class' and the husband was considered a 'failure' as he was unable to support the family alone.
- These new _______ transformed European society by bringing cultural change, as generals and family life adjusted to economic changes.
- The Panic of 1873 A) began after the Southern crop-lien system collapsed.B) saw Republicans call on Grant to go off the gold standard.C) saw President Grant favor putting more paper currency into circulation.D) began after revelations of corruption in the Grant administration.E) was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.
- The Wade-Davis Bill A. essentially followed President Lincoln's Reconstruction plans. B. was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild. C. called for the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates. D. denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for ten years. E. quickly became the law of the land.
- . In the 1860s, the Black Codes were A. holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments. B. passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states. C. enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights. D. vetoed by President Andrew Johnson. E. designed to give whites control over freedmen
- As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, Radical Republicans A. reduced the number of justices on the Court. B. established military tribunals in additional Southern states. C. proposed abolishing the Court. D. tempered many of their Reconstruction plans. E. ended military tribunals in favor of civil courts.
- During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were A. white Southerners who moved to the North. B. freedmen who moved out of the South. C. former confederates who moved to the West. D. Northern white veterans who moved to the South. E. Northern politicians who took offices in Southern states.
- During Reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to A. Southern white Republicans. B. free black Southerners. C. Southerners who moved north. D. white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy. E. Northerners who moved south.
- At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States was A. about 800,000. B. about one million. C. about two and a half million. D. about three and a half million E. almost six million
- . In 1865, southern blacks defined "freedom" as A. independence from white control. B. acquiring the legal rights to live as did whites. C. land reform. D. independence from white control, and land reform. E. All these answers are correct
- . 23. During Reconstruction, the Southern school system A. eventually reached 40 percent of all black children. B. did not allow blacks to be teachers. C. initially were not segregated. D. only offered primary instruction. E. barely reached any children of former slaves.
- In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham LincolnA) insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist.B) argued it best to readmit the Confederate states to the Union without condition.C) called on the Confederacy to negotiate a peace treaty with the United States.D) met with Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia.E) declared that the Confederate government must repudiate its constitution.
- The Tenure of Office Act A. gave the Senate the power to appoint members of the president's cabinet. B. was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority. C. was roundly condemned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. D. was both designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority and roundly condemned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. E. None of these answers is correct.
- In President Abraham Lincoln's plan for the South, "10 percent" referred to theA. area of land in each state that should be reserved for former slaves. B. ratio of federal to state money to be spent in rebuilding the Southern economy. C. ratio of federal troops to freed slaves in each Southern state. D. percentage of freed slaves who must be given the vote before setting up a state government. E. number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.
- During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South, A. the Freedman's Bureau distributed millions of acres of land to freedmen. B. most plantations abandoned during the Civil War remained vacant. C. ownership by both whites and blacks increased. D. the federal government vigorously acted to confiscate land owned by former Confederates. E. ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased
- 12. The Fourteenth Amendment A. ended slavery throughout the United States. B. gave voting rights to all male Americans. C. gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States. D. was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. E. was written in such a way as to appease the woman's suffrage movement
- At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, A. a majority of Senators voted to acquit. B. Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote. C. every Senate Republican voted to convict. D. Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate. E. Johnson was spared conviction by one vote.
- In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he A. violated the Tenure of Office Act. B. offered political opposition to Radical Republicans. C. dismissed Edwin Stanton from office. D. both violated the Tenure of Office Act and dismissed Edwin Stanton from office. E. All these answers are correct.