AP classroom practice questions and answers 2026

AP classroom practice questions and answers

1. "After [the Confederate surrender at]Which of the following pieces of ev- idence could best be used to modify Foner's main argument in the second excerpt?: After 1877 Democrats in the South legislated restrictions on the ability of African Americans to vote. 2. "After [the Confederate surrender at] Based on their arguments in the excerpts, both Rable and Foner would most likely agree with which of the following claims?: Southern resistance hindered Reconstruction. 3. Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?: He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union. 4. During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the: spread of sharecropping 5. The Compromise of 1877 resulted in: the withdrawal of federal troops from the South 6. Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments sur- vived the "Redeemer" administrations?: Establishment of a public schoolsystem 7. All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction mea- sured EXCEPT the: massive exodus of former slaves from the South 8. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established: - that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude 9. Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction?: The for- mation of the Ku Klux Klan 10.In the late nineteenth century,state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting: African Americans' voting rights guaranteed by the Fif- teenth Amendment 11. Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?: A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers 12. After the CivilWar,women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over: legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males 13. "Americans faced an overwhelming task after the CivilWar and emanci- pation: how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas—healing and justice.... [T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. One might conclude that this imbalance between outcomes of sec- tional healing and racial justice was simply America's inevitable historical condition....But theories of inevitability...are rarely satisfying....The sectional reunion after so horrible a civil war was a political triumph by the late nineteenth century, but it could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of Ameri- can history from Appomattox to WorldWar I." DavidW.Blight, historian, Race and Reunion:The CivilWar in American Mem- ory, 2001 Which of the following best explains the reason for the reconciliation de- scribed by Blight?: Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ulti- mately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve.