Unit 9 Lesson 7 Impact of Reconstruction

Unit 9 Lesson 7 Impact of Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

During Reconstruction in the United States, the Freedmen’s Bureau

• administered poll taxes and literacy tests during elections.

• segregated white and African American students in schools.

• built schools and trained teachers for newly freed persons.

• helped African Americans relocate from the South to the North.

Multiple Choice

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was significant because it

• placed the South under military rule and created districts.

• granted all African American men the right to vote.

• prohibited states from denying the right to vote due to race.

• was the first in a series of laws that protected African Americans.

Multiple Choice

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was significant because it

• granted suffrage to all African American men.

• gave all adult African Americans the right to vote.

• made it illegal to deny the right to vote due to race.

• granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

Multiple Choice

Who was Hiram Revels?

• a leader of the Ku Klux Klan

• a Democratic presidential candidate

• the first African American in Congress

• a wealthy Mississippi landowner

Multiple Choice

Who was Blanche Bruce?

• a leader and founding member of the Ku Klux Klan

• a presidential candidate from the Republican Party

• the first African American politician to serve in Congress

• the founder of the first school for African American children

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the government participation of African Americans during Reconstruction?

• African Americans were excluded from participating in government at any level.

• African Americans participated widely in local government in the South.

• African Americans became the most powerful voice in Southern state governments.

• African Americans were elected to positions in local, state, and national government.

Multiple Choice

Which was founded by former Confederate Army officers in Tennessee in 1866?

• the Carpetbaggers

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Scalawags

• the Tennessee legislature

Multiple Choice

Fading support for Reconstruction was preceded by

• the Liberal Republicans joining the Republican Party.

• a Democratic candidate assuming the presidency in 1868.

• members of Grant’s administration being accused of bribery.

• violence breaking out against African Americans in Memphis.

Multiple Choice

Which event brought about the Panic of 1873?

• the end of the Civil War

• the start of Reconstruction

• several banks ran out of money

• several major stocks crashed

Multiple Choice

Who won the popular vote in the 1876 presidential election?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Horatio Seymour

• Samuel J. Tilden

Multiple Choice

What was problematic about the 1876 presidential election?

• One of Grant’s staff members ran for president, even though he’d been accused of taking bribes.

• Tilden won the popular vote, Hayes narrowly won the electoral vote, and votes in four states were disputed.

• The Republican Party was divided between Grant’s followers and the Liberal Republicans.

• Hayes won the popular vote, Tilden narrowly won the electoral vote, and Florida’s voting results were disputed.

Multiple Choice

How did the Compromise of 1877 mark the beginning of the end of Reconstruction?

• It removed federal troops from the South.

• It placed a Democrat in the White House.

• It ensured that Democrats would join the cabinet.

• It created a split within the Republican Party.

Multiple Choice

What deal did Democrats and Republicans make regarding the presidential election of 1876?

• The president would be a Democrat, and the vice president would be a Republican.

• The president would be a Republican, and the vice president would be a Democrat.

• The president would be a Democrat, and the cabinet would contain Republicans.

• The president would be a Republican, and the cabinet would contain Democrats.