A) opposition to abusing the constitutional system of checks and balances.
B) concern about the high-tariff, soft-money, and pro-labor views of radical Republican Benjamin Wade who would become president if President Johnson were convicted by the Senate.
C) fears of creating a politically destabilizing and uncertain period of time in the nation.
D) President Johnson promised to obstruct some of the Republican policies in return for remaining in office.
E) President Johnson promised not to run for president in 1868 if acquitted.
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A) rapid, straightforward, and readily achievable readmission of Southern states into the Union.
B) former slaves the right to vote.
C) the restoration of the planter aristocracy to political power.
D) severe punishment of Southern political and military leaders.
E) a plan that could not possibly lead to congressional fears of the re-enslavement of Southern blacks.
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A) Johnson's personal vulgarity and crude style of campaigning.
B) the president's former ownership of slaves.
C) Johnson's "soft" conciliatory treatment of the white South clashed with the congressional emphasis of promoting black freedom and racial equality in the South by many Republicans in Congress.
D) Johnson's "class-based" policies that favored poor whites over the white planter and manufacturing classes.
E) Johnson's underlying loyalty to the Democratic party.
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A) federal military and political power must be used to bring about a social and economic revolution in the South.
B) blacks should be the foundation of the Southern Republican party.
C) freed slaves must be granted the right to vote.
D) Southern states should quickly be readmitted into the Union.
E) None of these choices are correct.
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A) providing "40 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.
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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.
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A) the ability to search for lost family.
B) the right to get married.
C) the opportunity to form their own churches.
D) the opportunity for an education.
E) maintenance in the status quo ante of the social behavior and personal relations between white Southerners and freed blacks.
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A) Female activists saw the struggle for black freedom and women's rights as one in the same.
B) During the war, many women's rights leaders worked for black emancipation first and foremost.
C) The Woman's Loyal League collected 400,000 signatures supporting a constitutional amendment ending slavery.
D) Women's rights activists campaigned in support of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.
E) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony sought to have the word "sex" added to the Fifteenth Amendment.
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A) Southern whites quickly admitted they had been wrong in trying to secede and win Southern independence.
B) Southern whites rapidly turned their slaves into fairly paid, free labor employees.
C) Southern blacks uniformly turned in anger and revenge against their former masters.
D) Southern blacks often began traveling to test their freedom, search for family members, and seek economic opportunity.
E) Southern blacks looked to the federal government for help.
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A) the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress concerning the political conditions and terms of Reconstruction.
B) the close ties that were developing between President Lincoln and the Democrats over Reconstruction issues.
C) President Lincoln's desire for a harsh Reconstruction plan.
D) that a Congressional majority believed that the South had never legally left the Union.
E) the Republicans' division about whether readmitting the Confederate states to the Union was wise, regardless of the stringent readmission conditions specified in the Wade-Davis legislation.
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A) readmission of Southern states into the Union.
B) civil and political rights for former slaves.
C) defining the political and economic scope and meaning of "freedom" for slaves.
D) political direction and control of the Reconstruction process between President Johnson and the Republican Congress.
E) treatment of former Confederate leaders.
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