Chapter_22_The_Ordeal_of_Reconstruction_1865_1877 (1)
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Chapter_22_The_Ordeal_of_Reconstruction_1865_1877 (1)

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

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

  a. black church leaders who linked emancipation to the Book of Exodus.
  b. black migrants from the South to Northern cities.
  c. black freedmen who left the South to seek opportunity in Kansas.
  d. a political organization developed by the freedmen.
  e. black homesteaders in Oklahoma and Kansas who eventually fled the dust bowl.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Freedmen Define Freedom

 

42. The Exodusters’ westward mass migration finally faltered when

  a. homesteading on the Great Plains proved more difficult than expected.
  b. a massive, extended drought covered the Great Plains in in the late 1870s.
  c. steamboat captains refused to transport more former slaves across the Mississippi.
  d. white Kansans passed strict segregation laws.
  e. the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution were finally ratified.

 

ANSWER:   c
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Freedmen Define Freedom

 

43. The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to do all of the following except

  a. act as a kind of welfare agency.
  b. provide food, clothing, and medical care to slave refugees.
  c. settle former slaves with forty-acre tracts confiscated from Confederates.
  d. relocate blacks West or force them into labor contracts with former masters.
  e. provide education that would help close the gap between blacks and whites.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Freedmen’s Bureau

 

44. The greatest achievements of the Freedmen’s Bureau were in

  a. providing “forty acres and a mule” to freed blacks.
  b. educating former slaves.
  c. the provision of food and clothing.
  d. helping people to find employment at fair wages and decent working conditions in the South.
  e. securing black civil rights, preventing lynchings, and ensuring voting rights.

 

ANSWER:   b
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Freedmen’s Bureau

 

45. The white South viewed the Freedmen’s Bureau as

  a. a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.
  b. an agency acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
  c. a valued partner in rebuilding the South.
  d. more helpful in the North than the South.
  e. None of these choices are correct.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Freedmen’s Bureau

 

46. In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedmen’s Bureau was

  a. a flawed but necessary agency.
  b. acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.
  c. a tolerable compromise with the radical Congress.
  d. a potential source of Republican patronage jobs.
  e. a meddlesome federal agency in the South that should be killed.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   The Freedmen’s Bureau

 

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