Chapter Six Self-test
Take the following self-test as many times as needed to master chapter content. Included page numbers will enable you to check your responses.
1) Which of these organizations prepared the freedmen for citizenship and political participation?
a) Freedmen’s Bureau
b) Grange
c) Union (or Loyal) League
d) League of Black Voters of America
Hint: pages 153–154
2) The issue of ab initio was resolved when the Supreme Court ruled that secession from the Union was unconstitutional in
a) ex parte Rodriguez
b) Texas v. Hamilton
c) Reynolds v. Sims
d) Texas v. White
Hint: page 155
3) The Freedmen’s Bureau encountered many problems, among them were all of the following EXCEPT:
a) the inability to recruit sufficient teachers and fill bureaucratic offices.
b) the inability to make a substantial difference in educating freedpersons of all ages.
c) the inability to rectify all injustices that had affected freedpersons’ lives.
d) the inability to surmount the violence that was directed toward agents and teachers.
Hint: pages 149–150
4) The work of the Freedmen’s Bureau included helping newly freed blacks find jobs, find lost family members, and legalize marriages, but its most far-reaching work was in the field of:
a) health and medical care
b) education
c) legal reform
d) political reform
Hint: pages 149–150
5) All of the following had a positive impact (even if short-lived) on public education in Texas in the post-Civil War era EXCEPT:
a) the Freedmen’s Bureau
b) the Constitution of 1876
c) Edmund J. Davis
d) Richard Coke
Hint: pages 149–150, 154 (freedmen and Freedmen’s Bureau); pages 175–178 (Constitution of 1876); pages 154–160 (Edmund J. Davis); pages 173–174 (Richard Coke)
6) The Grangers exercised significant influence over
a) the constitutional convention of 1876.
b) the constitutional convention of 1869.
c) the executive branch of state government.
d) the progress of Texas public education in the late 1800s.
Hint: pages 175–178
7) Which statement about Edmund J. Davis is INCORRECT?
a) Edmund J. Davis supported the principle of ab initio and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.
b) Governor Edmund J. Davis initiated what historians refer to as Radical Reconstruction in Texas.
c) In executing provisions of the new state constitution, Governor Davis was supported mainly by carpetbaggers.
d) Governor Edmund J. Davis can be seen as a reformer, signing a bill financing a public school system with such progressive features as a state superintendent of education and compulsory attendance.
Hint: pages 156–160
8) The “Semicolon Court” was a derisive term used for the court by enraged Democrats following the arrest of ______who was accused of voting twice (on two separate days).
a) George T. Ruby
b) George Glenn
c) Joseph Rodríguez
d) Matt Gaines
Hint: pages 173–174
9) Radical Republicans endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
a) education for freedpersons and suffrage for freedmen.
b) extension of full civil rights to former slaves.
c) expansion of black codes.
d) compulsory school attendance and subsidization of internal improvements.
Hint: pages 149–160
10) Which of the following was NOT an impact of the Civil War in Texas?
a) The accrued expenses of the war effort produced financial distress.
b) Confederate forces leveled Texas towns and demolished roads and bridges.
c) Property values and the worth of farms and ranches depreciated.
d) Trade with Mexico increased since commerce in the international market demanded specie and gold currency was more common in Texas than in any other regions of the Confederacy.
Hint: pages 142–143