STAAR Review: Reconstruction

Was the South under military rule during the Reconstruction Era?

• True

• False

What Reconstruction Amendment abolished slavery?

• 11th Anmendment

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

What was the name of President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?

• 5% plan

• 10% plan

• 15% plan

• 20% plan

What land grant became law (Act) and established agriculturial universities like Texas A&M and Louisiana State University (LSU) ?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Dawes Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Morrill Act

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to?

• limit the impact of the 13th Amendment

• punish plantation owners for the use of slavery

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South

• promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

In 1866, a southern group of violent, radical, intimidating men formed to fight against the rising influence of African-Americans in the South. Who was this controversial group?

• Sons of Liberty

• Ku Klux Klan

• Neo-Nazis

• Black Seperatists

Both the Homestead Act and the Morrill Act (1862) were efforts by the federal government to?

• provide land to minority groups

• resolve conflicts with Native American Indians

• encourage settlement west of the Mississippi River

• support settlement of former plantation lands

What was the economic impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on the United States?

• It brought about the manufacture of safer products

• It promoted a decrease in European immigration

• It limited the abuses of the larger railroad companies

• It lead to an expansion of trade from the East to the West Coast

What impact did the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels have on American society during Reconstruction?

• It exposed the dangers of free elections in the South

• It confirmed that African Americans could participate in political life

• It convinced the US Congress to ban the importation of slaves

• It pressured Radical Republicans to support women's suffrage

What is the process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War called?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Reconstruction

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Coding