Author Question: During Reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to A. white Southerners who still embraced ... (Read 73 times)

burton19126 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

During Reconstruction, the Southern school system

A. only offered primary instruction.

B. initially were not segregated.

C. reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876.

D. barely reached any children of former slaves.

E. did not allow blacks to be teachers.

Question 2

At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial,

A. Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.

B. a majority of senators voted to acquit.

C. Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.

D. every Senate Republican voted to convict.

E. Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.

Question 3

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

A. dismissed Edwin Stanton from office.

B. both violated the Tenure of Office Act and dismissed Edwin Stanton from office.

C. violated the Tenure of Office Act.

D. offered political opposition to Radical Republicans.

E. All these answers are correct.

Question 4

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, some Radical Republicans

A. ended military tribunals in favor of civil courts.

B. proposed abolishing the Court.

C. established military tribunals in additional Southern states.

D. reduced the number of justices on the Court.

E. tempered many of their Reconstruction plans.

Question 5

During Reconstruction, Southern African American officeholders

A. underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South.

B. rarely engaged in illegal political activities.

C. did not serve in the federal Congress or Senate.

D. filled as many as five seats in the United States Senate.

E. were excluded from state constitutional conventions.

Question 6

During Reconstruction, the term scalawags referred to

A. white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy.

B. free black Southerners.

C. Northerners who moved south.

D. Southerners who moved north.

E. Southern white Republicans.