CLEP Exam - US History 1865 to Present EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

CLEP Exam - US History 1865 to Present EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

1. Which of the following best describes the experiences of most recently freed people following
Reconstruction?
(A) They obtained land from the Freedmen's Bureau.
(B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers.
(C) They established large cooperative farms.
(D) They mig to Northern urban areas and worked as unskilled laborers.
(E) They were forced to migrate to marginally fertile lands in the western territories - ANSWER>> B
2. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for
(A) temporary Union military government in the former Confederacy
(B) federal monetary support for the resettlement of African Americans in Africa
(C) property-holding and voting rights for African Americans
(D) implementation of anti-African American vagrancy laws in the South (E) lenient readmission of the
formerly Confederate states to the Union - ANSWER>> A
3. The second Sioux war (1876-1877), in which Custer was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn, was
caused by all of the following EXCEPT (A) the extension of the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad
(B) a concent effort on the part of the major Protestant denominations to convert the Sioux to
Christianity
(C) the gold rush in the Black Hills
(D) corruption within the Department of the Interior
(E) overland migration of settlers to the Pacific Northwest - ANSWER>> B