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Practice test for Chapter 12 CP and Honors
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and
a.
promise never to secede again.
c.
set up schools for freedmen.
b.
accept that slaves were now free.
d.
pay damages to the North.
____ 2. President Andrew Johnson believed that the ____ caused the Civil War.
a.
Southern politicians
c.
rich planter elite
b.
Northern abolitionists
d.
Radical Republicans in Congress
____ 3. Under the Republicans’ Reconstruction plan, before former Confederate states could elect people to Congress, they had to
a.
ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
b.
ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.
c.
deny rights to Confederate leaders.
d.
give African Americans state jobs.
____ 4. President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act by
a.
running for a third term as president.
b.
not replacing cabinet members.
c.
firing General Grant.
d.
firing Secretary of War Stanton.
____ 5. Some scalawags were
a.
wealthy planters who were looking for a way to regain power.
b.
owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain power.
c.
Northern schoolteachers who educated whites and African Americans.
d.
African Americans who had won office in Southern state governments.
____ 6. Originally, the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to
a.
terrorize African American freedmen to force them to move to the North.
b.
remove African Americans from public office.
c.
drive out all Northern influences and return to a plantation system in the South.
d.
drive out Union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party.
____ 7. Democrats charged that sin taxes to pay off bonds favored the rich because
a.
the rich were better able to pay the taxes.
b.
the poor who had owned bonds had
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and
a.
promise never to secede again.
c.
set up schools for freedmen.
b.
accept that slaves were now free.
d.
pay damages to the North.
____ 2. President Andrew Johnson believed that the ____ caused the Civil War.
a.
Southern politicians
c.
rich planter elite
b.
Northern abolitionists
d.
Radical Republicans in Congress
____ 3. Under the Republicans’ Reconstruction plan, before former Confederate states could elect people to Congress, they had to
a.
ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
b.
ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.
c.
deny rights to Confederate leaders.
d.
give African Americans state jobs.
____ 4. President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act by
a.
running for a third term as president.
b.
not replacing cabinet members.
c.
firing General Grant.
d.
firing Secretary of War Stanton.
____ 5. Some scalawags were
a.
wealthy planters who were looking for a way to regain power.
b.
owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain power.
c.
Northern schoolteachers who educated whites and African Americans.
d.
African Americans who had won office in Southern state governments.
____ 6. Originally, the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to
a.
terrorize African American freedmen to force them to move to the North.
b.
remove African Americans from public office.
c.
drive out all Northern influences and return to a plantation system in the South.
d.
drive out Union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party.
____ 7. Democrats charged that sin taxes to pay off bonds favored the rich because
a.
the rich were better able to pay the taxes.
b.
the poor who had owned bonds had