Friday, February 24, 2012

Can someone please help me with these US history questions? I cant find the answers in my txtbook.?

1. Draft exemptions for wealthy plantation owners who were slaveholders put the major burden for fighting the war for the Confederacy on

a. slaves.

b. poor farmers and working people.

c. German and Irish immigrants.

d. teenage boys.



2. The significance of the South鈥檚 loss at the Battle of Antietam was that

a. no soldiers died.

b. it was a resounding victory for the North.

c. it showed that General McClellan was a truly great leader.

d. it cost the South any hope for support from a European country.



3. The Civil Rights Act of 1875

a. required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people born or naturalized in the United States.

b. prohibited businesses that served the public from discriminating against African Americans.

c. extended the right to vote to African American men.

d. declared that everyone born in the United States was a citizen with full rights.



4. In July 1863, Union victories at Vicksburg and Port Hudson were significant because

a. Stonewall Jackson was killed during the Siege of Vicksburg.

b. they resulted in the freeing of slaves who went on to join the Union army.

c. Confederate troops, forced to eat their mules for food, were unable to transport their supplies.

d. they gave the Union total control of the Mississippi River, thereby cutting off Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas from the rest of the Confederacy



5. Which of the following statements about the Battle of Shiloh is NOT true?

a. The Union army won the battle.

b. Ulysses S. Grant led the Union forces.

c. Robert E. Lee led the Confederate army.

d. Both sides suffered great losses.



6. Which of the following was NOT one of the terms included in the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?

a. States were to submit new constitutions guaranteeing all people the vote.

b. States were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

c. African Americans were to be able to vote for and serve as delegates to state constitutional conventions.

d. The former Confederacy was divided into five military districts.



7. Which of the following statements concerning land reform during Reconstruction is NOT true?

a. Some people took advantage of African Americans鈥?desire for land after the war.

b. Some freedpeople believed they would receive forty acres and a mule.

c. Freedpeople received land from the federal government after the war.

d. Freedpeople did not receive land from the federal government.



8. Which of the following statements about African American involvement in state constitutional conventions is NOT true?

a. African American delegates outnumbered white delegates in Louisiana and South Carolina.

b. African American delegates composed from 10 to 40 percent of the delegates in other states.

c. African Americans had no interest in becoming delegates for state constitutional conventions.

d. Most of the African American delegates were southerners; however, northerners also participated.



9. Which of the following statements is NOT true concerning Andrew Johnson?

a. He held pro-Union sympathies.

b. He was a master at political compromise.

c. He was a Democrat.

d. He was once a slaveholder.



10. African Americans first won the right to vote in

a. the territories of the United States.

b. the District of Columbia.

c. Illinois.

d. Mississippi.



- Any help is highly appreciated. Please and thank you!Can someone please help me with these US history questions? I cant find the answers in my txtbook.?
1=b

2=b

3=c

4=c

5=d

6=d

7=c

8=a

9=a

10=bCan someone please help me with these US history questions? I cant find the answers in my txtbook.?
1=b

2=d

3=a

4=d

5=c

6=a

7=d

8=c

9=a

10=b
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