Module 1 Review Quiz

1.   Congressional members seeking to promote the interests of former slaves and punish white Southerners for the Civil War were called __________.            

1. Carpetbaggers
2. Radical Republicans
3. Scalawags
4. None of the above 

2.  The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution __________.            

1.  guaranteed black people’s citizenship rights
2. affirmed the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case
3. ended involuntary servitude
4. None of the above 

3.   The leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives was Thaddeus Stevens.      

1. True
2. False

4. Fearing that Andrew Johnson would fire the radical secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act.            

1. True
2. False

5.   The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited federal and state governments from __________.            

1. distributing free land to the freedmen
2. abridging the freedom of speech of any American
3. limiting the franchise because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
4. None of the above 

6.  A radical proponent of interracial labor unions in the South was __________.        

1. Hiram Revels
2. George Ruby
3. Lucy Parsons
4. None of the above 

7.  White supremacists throughout the South resorted to extrajudicial violence known as lynching.            

1. True
2. False

8.   To bolster federal commitment to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, Congress responded to white backlash by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866.      

1. True
2. False

9.   In 1865, to offer black people opportunities for leadership and a safe way to save money, Congress __________.      

1. passed the Amnesty Act 
2. chartered the Freedmen’s Savings Bank and Trust Company
3. launched a massive land reform project in the South
4. None of the above 

10.   In the years after the Civil War, the city of __________ became a center for the hopes and dreams of many black Americans.            

1.  New York City 
2. Boston
3. Washington, D.C.
4. None of the above