HIST 1302 Maymester Test 1 Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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HIST 1302 Maymester Test 1 Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers

Question: The chapter tells the story of Benjamin Montgomery to make
the point that

Ans✅ ✅: for former slaves to attain meaningful lives as free citizens, they would
need economic power, which, in turn, required political power

Question: According to your text, what two issues lay at the heart of
Reconstruction?

Ans✅ ✅: the future of political and economic power for African Americans, and the
future of North-South economic and political relations

Question: During the war, congressional leaders felt that Lincoln's plan
________, so they passed ________

Ans✅ ✅: was too lenient; the more stringent Wade-Davis bill, which Lincoln vetoed

Question: Both Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans shared an
intent to

Ans✅ ✅: liberally grant pardons to Confederate soldiers

Question: The Radical Republicans in Congress approached
Reconstruction with each of the following convictions EXCEPT that

Ans✅ ✅: to heal the nation, the South should be treated with generosity and
compassion

Question: The southern response to war's end and Johnson's program
of Reconstruction indicated

Ans✅ ✅: despair and defiance

Question: Under new president Andrew Johnson, presidential
Reconstruction

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Ans✅ ✅: made it possible for former high-ranking Confederates to assume positions
of power in the reconstructed southern governments

Question: Which of the following is NOT true about the Radical-
dominated Reconstruction Congress?

Ans✅ ✅: Its influence waned when northern voters repudiated Radical congressmen
at the polls in 1866.

Question: The central issue that divided Johnson and congressional
Radicals was

Ans✅ ✅: the future place of African Americans in U.S. society

Question: The North interpreted black codes as

Ans✅ ✅: evidence that the South sought to keep freedmen in an economically
dependent and legally inferior status

Question: The southern governments, as initially reconstituted after the
war, alarmed northern public opinion for all of the following reasons
EXCEPT that

Ans✅ ✅: they were blatantly corrupt and wasteful in spending tax dollars

Question: What won the support of congressional moderates for the
Radical program?

Ans✅ ✅: the president's uncompromising veto of a civil rights bill

Question: Which of the following did the congressional Reconstruction
program enacted 1866-1867 NOT provide for?

Ans✅ ✅: a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to
deserving freedmen

Question: With the exception of ________, the United States was the
only society in the Americas in which the destruction of slavery was
accomplished by violence

Ans✅ ✅: Haiti

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Question: The Second Confiscation Act of 1862 had authorized the
government to seize and sell the property of supporters of the rebellion;
however, President Johnson ruled that the law

Ans✅ ✅: applied only to wartime

Question: The Fifteenth Amendment

Ans✅ ✅: expanded suffrage

Question: Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided conviction on
impeachment charges because

Ans✅ ✅: some Republicans feared that removal would set a bad precedent for using
impeachment as a political weapon against the presidency.

Question: Which of the following most accurately explains the meaning
of the refusal of Congress to convict Johnson?

Ans✅ ✅: The power of the Radicals in Congress was waning

Question: African Americans who held political office in southern
Reconstruction governments generally

Ans✅ ✅: were educated professionals, independent landowners, or otherwise from
the ranks of black elites

Question: What is true about southern economic redevelopment?

Ans✅ ✅: Republican-dominated Reconstruction governments sought to encourage
southern industry

Question: One measure of black efforts to experience freedom was the

Ans✅ ✅: adoption of a surname

Question: Which of the following was illumined by the text as a familial
problem faced by some African Americans after they were freed?

Ans✅ ✅: having multiple spouses