HIS105 Week 1 Quiz
Question
Question 1
Passed by most of the new southern state governments during Reconstruction, the Black
Codes did all of the following except
A) allow African Americans to buy and sell land.
B) legalize black marriages while banning interracial marriage.
C) permit African Americans to sit on juries.
D) make it illegal for police to round up black vagrants and hire them out to white
landowners.
E) increase the physical separation of black Americans from white Americans.
Question 2
How did President Grant's administration respond to increased southern violence against
free men and women?
A) sending troops to retain order in the South and arrest perpetrators.
B) diverting his attention to tackling the problems of the Whiskey Ring.
C) sending a stern warning, including threats of censuring southern Congressmen, until the
violence ceased.
D) pushing two important measures through Congress and making it a felony to interfere
with the right to vote.
E) passing a law to make the Ku Klux Klan legal in the South.
Question 3
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 did not include restrictions on racial discrimination in
Question
Question 1
Passed by most of the new southern state governments during Reconstruction, the Black
Codes did all of the following except
A) allow African Americans to buy and sell land.
B) legalize black marriages while banning interracial marriage.
C) permit African Americans to sit on juries.
D) make it illegal for police to round up black vagrants and hire them out to white
landowners.
E) increase the physical separation of black Americans from white Americans.
Question 2
How did President Grant's administration respond to increased southern violence against
free men and women?
A) sending troops to retain order in the South and arrest perpetrators.
B) diverting his attention to tackling the problems of the Whiskey Ring.
C) sending a stern warning, including threats of censuring southern Congressmen, until the
violence ceased.
D) pushing two important measures through Congress and making it a felony to interfere
with the right to vote.
E) passing a law to make the Ku Klux Klan legal in the South.
Question 3
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 did not include restrictions on racial discrimination in
