Reconstruction Era

The purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau was to

• Provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
• Gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
• Provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.
• Get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.

In American history, the term “Reconstruction” refers to

• Problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy.
• The admission to Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.
• Federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves.
• The establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on industrial machinery.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified following which war?

• Civil War
• Vietnam War
• World War II
• American Revolution.

Which of these is the BEST example of Federal assistance to freed slaves following the Civil War?

• Wade-Davis Bill
• The White League
• Freedman’s Bureau
• Thirteenth Amendment.

In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew the last federal troops form the capitals of the Reconstruction states. Which of these was an effect of this decision?

• President Hayes was impeached by Congress and removed from office.
• Support from the southern states help him win the re-election in 1881.
• More African-American politicians were elected to seats in the U.S. Congress.
• Subversive groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Redeemers regained control of politics in the southern states.

Which President saw the end of the Reconstruction Era?

• Andrew Johnson
• John Tilden
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Rutherford B. Hayes

The “Compromise of 1877” regarding the election dispute between Hayes and Tilden is BEST characterized by which of these facts?

• Hayes was accepted as President and he appointed a Democrat to be his Vice President.
• The Democrats accepted Hayes in exchange for getting able to appoint the next Supreme Court Justice.
• The compromise failed and in a bitterly fought battle the House of Representatives elected Hayes as President.
• Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn from the South and voting rights for the freedmen decided by state governments.

Andrew Johnson was impeached because

• Southern States did not trust him.
• He removed a member of his cabinet.
• Democrats considered him a traitor.
• He violated the Civil Rights Act of 1865.

With which era of American history is this image MOST closely associated?

• Prohibition era
• The Civil War era
• Abolition era
• Reconstruction era

Which act denied the President the power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by a past President without the advice and consent of the Senate?

• The Hatch Act
• The War Powers Act
• The Glass-Segall Act
• The Tenure of Office Act