Question 1
The Slaughterhouse cases, U.S. v. Reese, U.S. v. Cruikshank, and the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 all had the effect of:
A) extending legal protection for African Americans.
B) limiting the ability of the Democratic Party to reestablish itself in the South.
C) restricting the protections of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
D) ending the power of the Radical Republicans completely.
Question 2
By 1876, Thomas Nast, like many who had supported Reconstruction:
A) became even more firmly devoted to black equality.
B) began to question blacks' fitness to vote.
C) argued that Irish and blacks like deserved equality.
D) went South to help the freedmen.
Question 3
White soldiers who remained in the South after the war were derisively called:
A) scalawags.
B) interlopers.
C) tramps.
D) carpetbaggers.
Question 4
In general, freed African Americans in the late 1860s were:
A) more interested in jobs than in politics.
B) generally apathetic about political activity.
C) highly involved in political activity.
D) supportive of the Democratic Party.
Question 5
By the late 1860s, the dominant form of work for black southerners was as:
A) wage laborers.
B) house servants.
C) sharecroppers.
D) artisans.