Hi. OK. I could not get all of the questions to post here, but I did email you a pre-exam. Please look at it, study it, and discuss the answers to the questions here. Pick questions that you think are difficult, not easy. Thanks. I'll check this when I get home tonight.
With question 4, it is a little confusing because it was not a presidential election. It was election for the Representatives. A. is wrong because the republicans disagreed with Johnson. B. is wrong because the south had little to do in the election. D. is wrong because the democrats lost. E. is true but it has little to do with the election. In the election the republicans won by a landslide so I would say the answer is C.
50 is really a straight forward question but I can’t find the answer anywhere >_<
I am pretty sure the answer is "A. sent in federal troops." But I'm not 100% sure. He did send troops in to deal with race issues but IDK if it was that massacre that specifically made him send in troops.
I could use help with question 30.
30. The Republican Party in the South a. was a new party that was not established there before the Civil War. b. represented the wealthiest, most powerful elements of society. c. was supported primarily by poor and middle-class whites. d. created the most corrupt and inefficient governments in southern history. e. did not attract the support of the former slaves
50 is really a straight forward question but I can’t find the answer anywhere >_<
I am pretty sure the answer is "A. sent in federal troops." But I'm not 100% sure. He did send troops in to deal with race issues but IDK if it was that massacre that specifically made him send in troops.
I could use help with question 30.
30. The Republican Party in the South a. was a new party that was not established there before the Civil War. b. represented the wealthiest, most powerful elements of society. c. was supported primarily by poor and middle-class whites. d. created the most corrupt and inefficient governments in southern history. e. did not attract the support of the former slaves
It's A, Matt. No Rep's in the South before the war.
Justin: I think the answer to number 41 is e. I wasn't sure where to look to find it so I searched for quotes from Grant online and found this website: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/ulysses_s._grant/ anyway, the quote is at the bottom of the page.
Sorry I forgot to post the questions in my last post for Part 2. Here they are:
#1 The prisoner-of-war issue became a serious problem a. after the Union began organizing regiments of former slaves. b. during the election of 1864. c. after the original prison compounds filled up. d. because of both sides’ plans for mass executions of prisoners. e. when the Union began deporting prisoners to Mexico.
#43 In the North Democrats generally a. supported the draft. b. did not take a stand on the draft. c. pushed for a provision that allowed wealthy men to buy their way out of the draft. d. supported the draft for blacks but not for whites. e. opposed the draft.
#49 In 1863 peace candidates in the Confederacy a. were overwhelmingly defeated. b. won both houses of Congress. c. made significant gains. d. were all arrested for treason. e. joined the Republican party.
#11, The Treaty of Washington did A, "resolved border disputes between the United States and Canada." I looked it up and also used logic to this that the Washington Territory is in the Northwest and borders Canada.
#27 I believe it is A, "The Senate sat as a court to try Johnson on charges drawn up by the House." Remeber the House did impeach Johnson but the Senate took up the charges and denied his exile from office.
Richie on 21 I disagree. I believe it is C "restored the political rights of white men who had fought against the Union." I know this based on a few reasons.
*A. is wrongbecause the plan of Lincoln pardned all BUT Southern officers
*Because of his pardon and wish for amnesty, it was obvious he wanted to give political rights back to white men.
*Radical Republicans DISLIKED Southerners for their rebeliousness! They ceratinly wouldn't want to give anyone back their rights
#1 The prisoner-of-war issue became a serious problem a. after the Union began organizing regiments of former slaves. b. during the election of 1864. c. after the original prison compounds filled up. d. because of both sides’ plans for mass executions of prisoners. e. when the Union began deporting prisoners to Mexico.
I think it is “A” because the south would treat black POWs worse than the other white POWs.
24.Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for all of the following reasons except:
a. to quiet abolitionists who were pressuring him to make a strong statement on the subject. b. because the border states rejected his plan for compensation and gradual emancipation. c. because he truly believed that the “monstrous” institution of slavery should be outlawed. d. as a means to save the Union e. in order to win British support for the Union.
I believe #24 is "E" Courtney. It was the South seeking support from Britain, the North wanted to keep them out. Secretary of State Seward made that clear.
Courtney, I actually think 24 is c. because theres a quote from the book that stated Lincoln simply wanted to end the Civil War and if he could, "do it without freeing any slaves, he would." The Proclamation aided in the British siding with the union because the every day working class brit could identify with the abolitionist cause, they couldnt with the "keeping the union together part."
8. The election of 1868 a. witnessed a referendum on the reconstruction policy of the Republicans. b. saw the re-emergence of a powerful Democratic Party in the North. c. brought about the “end of Reconstruction.” d. witnessed the election of southerners to important congressional positions. e. proved that black suffrage made no difference in the outcome of elections.
I feel as though a few of these answers could be correct.
13. The main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to a. destroy the Republican Party in the South. b. deny freedmen equal protection under the law. c. return black Americans to slavery. d. dismantle the Democratic Party. e. take the South out of the Union.
Difficult to decide which anwser would be best. I think it would most likely be B or E.
16. By the mid-1870s, northern Americans had grown a. increasingly supportive of the government’s efforts to restructure the South. b. stronger in the belief that black Americans needed further protection from racist southern governments. c. increasingly weary of the turmoil of southern politics. d. increasingly weary of the federal government’s failure to restructure the South. e. increasingly supportive of black immigration to the North to meet their labor needs and to stop the upheaval in the South.-
I highly doubt the anwser would be A, C, or E. I would figure either B or D because people slowly did become more aware at the growing rate of racial issues forming after the removal of the Union army from the South and people also began to realize that reconstruction had been unsuccessful and should not have been stopped at such an early stage.
13. The main purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to a. destroy the Republican Party in the South. b. deny freedmen equal protection under the law. c. return black Americans to slavery. d. dismantle the Democratic Party. e. take the South out of the Union.
Difficult to decide which anwser would be best. I think it would most likely be B or E.
Sarah, I think the answer is B because the klan was a white supremacist group who lynched freedmen and tried to stop them from voting (remember the cartoon on the pojer powerpoint with the klansmen stepping on the freedman who was reaching for the ballot box?) Also ...
its not a because the klan never killed politicians or anything like that, they just did what they thought they should to blacks
its not c because there's no way they could go against the thirteenth amendment in the constitution. they were not a political organization (see a.)
its not d because the democrats were southerners. the end.
and i dont think its e because they werent still confederates, the klan simply was white supremists who didnt approve of civil rights for blacks.
8. The election of 1868 a. witnessed a referendum on the reconstruction policy of the Republicans. b. saw the re-emergence of a powerful Democratic Party in the North. c. brought about the “end of Reconstruction.” d. witnessed the election of southerners to important congressional positions. e. proved that black suffrage made no difference in the outcome of elections.
I feel as though a few of these answers could be correct.
Its certainly not e. because the new black vote certainly made a difference, its not c. because that didnt come until next election, its also not b because the democrats did not have a strong presence in the north. I dont know the actual answer though
