AMSCO 15

Which of the following would in part cause Douglass's view that for African Americans, "citizenship is but a sham"?

(A) 14th Amendment

(B) Black Codes

(C) Freedmen's Bureau

(D) Election of Ulysses S. Grant African Americans, "citizenship is but a sham"?

(B) Black Codes

Which best provides an example of how the "Constitution and its righteous

laws," according to Douglass, provide hope for the "colored people of this

country"?

(A) Wade-Davis Bill

(B) Amnesty Act of 1872

(C) Civil Rights Act of 1866

(D) 16th Amendment

(C) Civil Rights Act of 1866

Which of the following developed during Reconstruction to provide direct

support and support self-determination for those freed from slavery?

(A) Credit Mobilier

(B) Tenant farming

(C) Sharecropping

(D) Black churches

(D) Black churches

In proclaiming that all persons born in the United States were citizens,

the 14th Amendment directly repudiated which of the following?

(A) Compromise of 1850

(B) Dred Scott Decision

(C) Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

(D) Wade-Davis Bill

(B) Dred Scott Decision

For future Supreme Courts, one of the key points of the 14th Amendment

would be which of the following?

(A) "nor deny ... equal protection of the laws"

(B) "Representatives shall be apportioned"

(C) "the basis of representation therein shall be reduced"

(D) "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion"

(A) "nor deny ... equal protection of the laws"

Which of the following was most important in enabling the Democratic

Party to regain political power in the South?

A) Limiting education for the freedmen

B) Limiting the voting rights of the freedmen

C) The Panic of 1873

D) The Amnesty Act of 1872

B) Limiting the voting rights of the freedmen

The victor in the 1876 presidential election was decided by

A) a special electoral commission

B) the House of Representatives

C) the Senate

D) the Supreme Court

A) a special electoral commission

Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as president in 1876 in

part if he agreed to which of the following?

A) to support a nationwide Black Code

B) to remove federal troops from the South

C) to promote Southern industrial development

D) to support civil service reform

B) to remove federal troops from the South