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Questions

1. How did some Blacks who were former slaves after the Civil War reconnect with their loved ones who were sold?

A. They sued to secure plantation records

B. They had their loved ones names announced on the radio

C. They voted to receive funds to travel north

D. They placed adds in newspapers

2. What is the political party that most African Americans were affiliated with after the Civil War?

A. The Federalists

B. The Democrats

C. The Jeffersonians

D. The Republicans

3. During Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address what was Johnson's response to Frederick Douglass?

A. He gave him a standing ovation

B. He eagerly ran to embrace him and shake his hand

C. He refused to attend the event

D. He was upset because he had to shake a Black man's hand

4. Major General Oliver Howard was assigned to do what in the summer after the Civil War?

A. a pension plan for Union soldiers

B. Overseeing the entire Southern society's transition from slavery to freedom

C. Read General Order #3 in Galveston, Texas to initiate the first Juneteenth celebration

D. Organize the North to prepare for the great migration

5. What was the Freedman's Bureau responsible for?

A. All of the other options

B. Assisting with Blacks who were enslaved to acquire land

C. Protecting Blacks from violence and getting them fair treatment in the courts

D. Providing an education to Blacks

6. How much was the budget of the Freedman's Bureau?

A. Twice the amount of the cost of the Civil War

B. Almost the same as the cost of the Civil War

C. Half the cost of the Civil War

D. Almost the same as what it cost to fight the Civil War for one week

7. How many acres of land did the Freedman's Bureau have control over?

A. 850,000 acres

B. 850 acres

C. 8,500 acres

D. 85,000 acres

8. How many years were Africans who received land by the Freedman's Bureau given to pay back the government for the cost of the land?

A. 10 years

B. 20 years

C. 5 years

D. 1 year

9. What was Johnson's plan for White Southerners who rebelled against the Union?

A. A five-year probationary period before Whites from rebelling states could receive amnesty

B. Amnesty for most White Southerners who took an oath to the union and the end of slavery

C. Permanent exclusion from the Union

D. A ten-year probationary period before Whites from rebelling states could receive amnesty

10. White Southerners who owned more than $20,000 in property had to do what for amnesty?

A. Acquire an individual pardon from the House of Representatives

B. Acquire an individual pardon from a delegation of Northern governors

C. The same as any other Southerner from a state that fought against the Union

D. Acquire an individual pardon from the president

11. What did President Johnson order Oliver Howard to do with the land that was under the control of the Freedman's Bureau in September 1865?

A. Double the amount of land for African Americans

B. Add the allowance of a mule to the land

C. Provide additional land for the Blacks who agreed to acquire a college education

D. Return it to the Southerners who acquired his pardon for seceding

12. The Lost Cause which was published in 1865 by a Richmond journalist was about what?

A. The reason why enslaved Africans joined the Union during the Civil War

B. Why the South was wrong

C. How Southern society defended itself against Northern aggression

D. Why slavery was wrong

13. In November of 1865 the government that President Johnson had set up in Mississippi established oppressive laws for African Americans that were replicated in other Southern states were known as what?

A. 15th Amendment offenses

B. 14th Amendment violations

C. Minstrelsy

D. The Black codes

13. In what state was the Klu Klux Klan created in 1866?

A. Mississippi

B. Tennessee

C. Alabama

D. Texas

14. Who represented former Confederate states in Congress immediately after the war?

A. Southerners who didn't receive amnesty

B. Normal citizens who didn't have anything to do with the Confederate states that rebelled against the union

C. Members of the South who joined the Union Army

D. The Vice President of the Confederacy, several of its generals, and cabinet members were elected into the House of Representatives

15. Who was the leader of the House of Republicans who objected to the Southern delegates scheduled to become part of the House of Representatives?

A. Ulysse S. Grant

B. Jefferson Davis

C. Thadeus Stevens

D. D. W. Griffith

16. What was the strategy to disempower the Southern delegates from the Confederacy who joined the 39th Congress on December 4, 1865?

A. They locked the doors to the building

B. There was nothing that could be done to disempower them

C. They changed the location of where Congress was meeting without informing them

D. Have the clerk skip over calling over the names of any of the rebel state congressmen

17. What is said to be Congress' answer to the Black Codes and President Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plans to prevent dismissing formerly enslaved Africans as being recognized as citizens?

A. The ratification of the 13th Amendment

B. By refusing to pass any bills that he wanted to be passed

C. The ratification of the 15th Amendment

D. Passing a Civil Rights Bill of 1866 that Johnson had vetoed

18. What happened on the afternoon of May 1, 1866 in South Memphis, Tennessee?

A. Black Union Soldiers were shot with other Blacks by White mobs who burned churches and schools to the ground

B. The NAACP was established

C. The first Black candidate for President of the United States of America introduced

D. The establishment of a Black political party was formed

19. What happened in New Orleans nearly 3 months after the May 1,, 1866 incident in South Memphis?

A. The NAACP held its first national conference

B. A second all-Black political party was formed

C. The first Black governor was elected

D. Nearly 40 people were killed by a White mob in New Orleans

20. What did the 14th Amendment do?

A. Gave those formerly enslaved the right to vote

B. Gave citizen rights to anyone born in the United States

C. All of the other options

D. Ended slavery

21. What was Military reconstruction?

A. The forming of the US Military with Blacks being able to be established in the highest ranks

B. The Confederate states being divided into five districts overseen by a U.S. General

C. An examination of the descrimination experienced by Blacks during the Civil War

D. The forming of the branches of the US military with an equal representation of individuals from the South and North

22. By the end of 1867 what percentage of Black men could vote?

A. Exactly 50%

B. More than 80%

C. Close to 30%

D. About 10%

23. What happened on Tuesday November 3, 1868?

A. African Americans were not allowed to vote

B. The first Black governor was elected

C. African Americans in large numbers had to arm themselves to go to the polls of the election

D. The 15th Amendment was ratified

24. Who did African Americans help put in the office as President after Johnson?

A. Abraham Lincoln

B. Rutherford B. Hayes

C. Ulysses S. Grant

D. Harry S. Truman