AP U.S. History Exam ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND WELL ELABORATED ANSWERS
The purpose of the Black Codes in the Southern states during the
Reconstruction period was to: A) aid the carpetbaggers. B) grant
suffrage to blacks. C) Prevent the exploitation of freedmen. D) Restrict
the civil rights of blacks. - CORRECT ANSWER D) Restrict the civil
rights of blacks.
The right of suffrage was given to newly freed male slaves by the: A)
12th. B) 13th. C) 14th. D) 15th amendment. - CORRECT ANSWER D)
15th
The "grandfather clause": A) Resulted in the election of Rutherford B
Hayed in 1876. B) Denied black Americans the franchise in the South.
C) Required federal troops to supervise voting in Southern elections.
D) Determined whether or not an ex-slave was a freedman. - CORRECT
ANSWER B) Denied black Americans the franchise in the South.
The North interpreted Black Codes as: A) Evidence that the South
sought to keep freemen in an economically dependent and legally
inferior status. B) Evidence that the South, by granting limited rights
such as allowing jury service, was slowly accommodating to an
improved status for former slaves. C) A realistic solution by the South
to the problems created by sudden emancipation. D) Dangerous
experiment by the South that could lead to social equality for blacks in
the North. - CORRECT ANSWER A) Evidence that the South sought to
keep freemen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status.
The 14th Amendment forbids states to: A) Levy income taxes. B) Pass
bankruptcy laws. C) Deprive any citizen of equal rights. D) Regulate
interstate commerce. - CORRECT ANSWER C) Deprive any citizen of
equal rights
,Northern politicians who rose to power in the South during
Reconstruction were call: A) Lame ducks. B) Scalawags. C) Freedmen.
D) Carpetbaggers. - CORRECT ANSWER D) Carpetbaggers.
During the Reconstruction, what group was the backbone of the
Republican party in the South, providing eight out of ten Republican
votes: A) scalawags. B) Freedmen. C) Carpetbaggers. D) Ku Klux
Klanners. - CORRECT ANSWER B) Freedmen
Which Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery? A) Twelfth.
B) Thirteenth. C) Fourteenth. D) Fifteenth. - CORRECT ANSWER B)
Thirteenth
The Radical Republicans in Congress after the Civil War were those
who A) regarded the Southern states as conquered territory. B) passed
the Black Codes. C) Favored Lincoln's idea on reconstruction. D)
Defended the rights of former Confederates. - CORRECT ANSWER A)
regarded the Southern states as conquered territory
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant A) transformed
his personal popularity into a large majority in the popular vote. B)
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves. C) gained his victory by
winning the votes of the majority of whites. D) All of these choices are
correct. - CORRECT ANSWER B) owed his victory to the votes of
former slaves.
Americans in the post-Civil War decades who waved the bloody shirt
were A) southern Democrats reviving the sectional spirit of the
Confederacy. B) Union Army veterans claiming their pensions. C) Labor
supporters protesting the Haymartket riot. D) Republicans reviving the
memory of southern Democratic disloyalty during the Civil War. -
CORRECT ANSWER D) Republicans reviving the memory of southern
Democratic disloyalty during the Civil War.
President Lincoln's plan for reconstruction was based on the theory
that the Confederate states A) were to be treated as territories. B)
Could be readmitted to the Union only by Congress. C) Had never
actually left the Union. D) Were to be occupied by Union forces for a
,period of twenty years. - CORRECT ANSWER C) Had never actually
left the Union.
During the Reconstruction Period, which branch of the national
government attempted to achieve supremacy over another? A) The
judicial over the legislative. B) The executive over the judicial. C) The
legislative over the executive. D) The legislative over the judicial. -
CORRECT ANSWER C) The legislative over the executive
The impeachment case against President Andrew Johnson was tried in
the U.S A) House of Representitives. B) Court of Appeals of the District
of Columbia. C) Supreme Court. D) Senate - CORRECT ANSWER ...
Sharecropping emerged in the post-bellum South as a means by which
A) Southern planters exchanged crops for Northern manufactured
goods. B) More than one crop shared the available land on the
plantation. C) Freedmen formed cooperative associations to share
costs of entering farming. D) Freedmen were returned to a position of
near slavery. - CORRECT ANSWER D) Freedmen were returned to a
position of near slavery
During the Reconstruction Period, an important objective of
congressional action was to A) Destroy the economy of the South. B)
Restore pre-Civil War conditions in the South. C) Retain Republican
domination of the national government. D) Pardon Southern leaders for
Civil War activities. - CORRECT ANSWER B) Restore pre-Civil War
conditions in the South.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was important
because it A) Prohibited slavery within the United States. B)
Guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen.
C) Prohibited any state from denying an American citizen the right to
vote based on race/ethnic background, color, or having previously
been a slave. D) Provided Congress with the power to establish and
collect income taxes. - CORRECT ANSWER C) Prohibited any state
from denying an American citizen the right to vote based on
race/ethnic background, color, or having previously been a slave.
, The president associated with the "Disputed Election of 1876" was A)
Rutherford B. Hayes. B) U. S. Grant. C) Andrew Johnson. D) William
Howard Taft. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
The Tenure of Office Act passed in 1867, made is illegal for the
President to dismiss key appointed officials without the consesnt of
the A) Supreme Court. B) The people. C) The Senate. D) The Cabinet. -
CORRECT ANSWER ...
The leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives
was A) Charles Sumner. B) Jefferson Davis. C) Andrew Johnson. D)
Thaddeus Stephens. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
For more than 75 years after Reconstruction the South's support for
the Democratic Party gave rise to the term A) Solid South. B) Liberals.
C) Progressives. D) Conservatives. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
The reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans were probably
motivated by A) A humanitarian concern for the former slaves. B)
Hopes for Republican power in the South. C) Bitterness over habing to
fight the costly war. D) All of these choices are correct. - CORRECT
ANSWER ...
Southerners who cooperated with Northerners who dominated the
state governments of the South were derisively called A)
Carpetbaggers. B) Radicals. C) Redeemers. D) Scalawags. - CORRECT
ANSWER ...
The city which became a center for the steel industry in the "New
South" and was, therefore, called the Pittsburg of the South was A)
Atlanta, Georgia. B) Birmingham, Alabama. C) Memphis, Tennessee. D)
Charleston, South Carolina. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
The "Compromise of 1877" did which of the following? A) Secured
political rights for the freedmen. B) Granted political amnesty to
former Confederate leaders. C) Ended federal military support of
Republican administrations in the South. D) Provided for a new method
of counting the presidential electoral vote. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
AND WELL ELABORATED ANSWERS
The purpose of the Black Codes in the Southern states during the
Reconstruction period was to: A) aid the carpetbaggers. B) grant
suffrage to blacks. C) Prevent the exploitation of freedmen. D) Restrict
the civil rights of blacks. - CORRECT ANSWER D) Restrict the civil
rights of blacks.
The right of suffrage was given to newly freed male slaves by the: A)
12th. B) 13th. C) 14th. D) 15th amendment. - CORRECT ANSWER D)
15th
The "grandfather clause": A) Resulted in the election of Rutherford B
Hayed in 1876. B) Denied black Americans the franchise in the South.
C) Required federal troops to supervise voting in Southern elections.
D) Determined whether or not an ex-slave was a freedman. - CORRECT
ANSWER B) Denied black Americans the franchise in the South.
The North interpreted Black Codes as: A) Evidence that the South
sought to keep freemen in an economically dependent and legally
inferior status. B) Evidence that the South, by granting limited rights
such as allowing jury service, was slowly accommodating to an
improved status for former slaves. C) A realistic solution by the South
to the problems created by sudden emancipation. D) Dangerous
experiment by the South that could lead to social equality for blacks in
the North. - CORRECT ANSWER A) Evidence that the South sought to
keep freemen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status.
The 14th Amendment forbids states to: A) Levy income taxes. B) Pass
bankruptcy laws. C) Deprive any citizen of equal rights. D) Regulate
interstate commerce. - CORRECT ANSWER C) Deprive any citizen of
equal rights
,Northern politicians who rose to power in the South during
Reconstruction were call: A) Lame ducks. B) Scalawags. C) Freedmen.
D) Carpetbaggers. - CORRECT ANSWER D) Carpetbaggers.
During the Reconstruction, what group was the backbone of the
Republican party in the South, providing eight out of ten Republican
votes: A) scalawags. B) Freedmen. C) Carpetbaggers. D) Ku Klux
Klanners. - CORRECT ANSWER B) Freedmen
Which Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery? A) Twelfth.
B) Thirteenth. C) Fourteenth. D) Fifteenth. - CORRECT ANSWER B)
Thirteenth
The Radical Republicans in Congress after the Civil War were those
who A) regarded the Southern states as conquered territory. B) passed
the Black Codes. C) Favored Lincoln's idea on reconstruction. D)
Defended the rights of former Confederates. - CORRECT ANSWER A)
regarded the Southern states as conquered territory
In the presidential election of 1868, Ulysses S. Grant A) transformed
his personal popularity into a large majority in the popular vote. B)
owed his victory to the votes of former slaves. C) gained his victory by
winning the votes of the majority of whites. D) All of these choices are
correct. - CORRECT ANSWER B) owed his victory to the votes of
former slaves.
Americans in the post-Civil War decades who waved the bloody shirt
were A) southern Democrats reviving the sectional spirit of the
Confederacy. B) Union Army veterans claiming their pensions. C) Labor
supporters protesting the Haymartket riot. D) Republicans reviving the
memory of southern Democratic disloyalty during the Civil War. -
CORRECT ANSWER D) Republicans reviving the memory of southern
Democratic disloyalty during the Civil War.
President Lincoln's plan for reconstruction was based on the theory
that the Confederate states A) were to be treated as territories. B)
Could be readmitted to the Union only by Congress. C) Had never
actually left the Union. D) Were to be occupied by Union forces for a
,period of twenty years. - CORRECT ANSWER C) Had never actually
left the Union.
During the Reconstruction Period, which branch of the national
government attempted to achieve supremacy over another? A) The
judicial over the legislative. B) The executive over the judicial. C) The
legislative over the executive. D) The legislative over the judicial. -
CORRECT ANSWER C) The legislative over the executive
The impeachment case against President Andrew Johnson was tried in
the U.S A) House of Representitives. B) Court of Appeals of the District
of Columbia. C) Supreme Court. D) Senate - CORRECT ANSWER ...
Sharecropping emerged in the post-bellum South as a means by which
A) Southern planters exchanged crops for Northern manufactured
goods. B) More than one crop shared the available land on the
plantation. C) Freedmen formed cooperative associations to share
costs of entering farming. D) Freedmen were returned to a position of
near slavery. - CORRECT ANSWER D) Freedmen were returned to a
position of near slavery
During the Reconstruction Period, an important objective of
congressional action was to A) Destroy the economy of the South. B)
Restore pre-Civil War conditions in the South. C) Retain Republican
domination of the national government. D) Pardon Southern leaders for
Civil War activities. - CORRECT ANSWER B) Restore pre-Civil War
conditions in the South.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was important
because it A) Prohibited slavery within the United States. B)
Guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen.
C) Prohibited any state from denying an American citizen the right to
vote based on race/ethnic background, color, or having previously
been a slave. D) Provided Congress with the power to establish and
collect income taxes. - CORRECT ANSWER C) Prohibited any state
from denying an American citizen the right to vote based on
race/ethnic background, color, or having previously been a slave.
, The president associated with the "Disputed Election of 1876" was A)
Rutherford B. Hayes. B) U. S. Grant. C) Andrew Johnson. D) William
Howard Taft. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
The Tenure of Office Act passed in 1867, made is illegal for the
President to dismiss key appointed officials without the consesnt of
the A) Supreme Court. B) The people. C) The Senate. D) The Cabinet. -
CORRECT ANSWER ...
The leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives
was A) Charles Sumner. B) Jefferson Davis. C) Andrew Johnson. D)
Thaddeus Stephens. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
For more than 75 years after Reconstruction the South's support for
the Democratic Party gave rise to the term A) Solid South. B) Liberals.
C) Progressives. D) Conservatives. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
The reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans were probably
motivated by A) A humanitarian concern for the former slaves. B)
Hopes for Republican power in the South. C) Bitterness over habing to
fight the costly war. D) All of these choices are correct. - CORRECT
ANSWER ...
Southerners who cooperated with Northerners who dominated the
state governments of the South were derisively called A)
Carpetbaggers. B) Radicals. C) Redeemers. D) Scalawags. - CORRECT
ANSWER ...
The city which became a center for the steel industry in the "New
South" and was, therefore, called the Pittsburg of the South was A)
Atlanta, Georgia. B) Birmingham, Alabama. C) Memphis, Tennessee. D)
Charleston, South Carolina. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
The "Compromise of 1877" did which of the following? A) Secured
political rights for the freedmen. B) Granted political amnesty to
former Confederate leaders. C) Ended federal military support of
Republican administrations in the South. D) Provided for a new method
of counting the presidential electoral vote. - CORRECT ANSWER ...
