Reconstruction

Which 19th-century event supported the movement for women’s rights?

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Dred Scott decision

• formation of the Republican Party

• Lincoln-Douglas debates

Before the former Confederate states could be readmitted to the Union, the congressional plan for Reconstruction required them to?

• ratify the 14th amendment

• imprison all former Confederate soldiers

• provide 40 acres of land to all freedmen

• help rebuild Northern industries

After the Civil War, Southern state legislatures attempted to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons by ?

• passing Black Codes

• ratifying the 15th amendment

• supporting the goals of the Radical Republicans

• enacting legislation to strengthen the Freedmen’s Bureau

A goal set at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) was achieved during the Progressive Era by the ?

• formation of the federal Food and Drug Administration

• creation of the League of Nations

• adoption of a national income tax

• ratification of the woman’s suffrage amendment

Most nativists of the late 1800s would most likely have supported the?

• creation of settlement houses to aid new immigrants

• passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

• continuation of the contract labor system

• assimilation of Native American Indians into mainstream culture

Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era primarily to?

• increase the number of women voters

• limit the number of African American voters

• guarantee that voters could read and write

• ensure that formerly enslaved persons met property requirements

In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to ?

• withdraw federal troops from the South

• support the Black Codes

• award the presidency to Democrat Samuel Tilden

• accept the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford

Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Southern states as a means to?

• provide an education for formerly enslaved persons

• protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved persons

• enforce racial segregation

• ensure equal protection under the law

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) affected African Americans by ?

• granting voting rights

• expanding civil rights

• upholding racial segregation

• guaranteeing equal wages

A primary reason for the passage of the 14th amendment in 1868 was to ?

• prohibit the secession of states

• uphold the legality of the Black Codes

• continue the presidential plan for Reconstruction

• guarantee citizenship rights to the newly freed slaves