Regents Review #5 (Reconstruction)

After the Civil War, the most common occupations

for freedmen were

• (1) sharecroppers and tenant farmers

• (2) factory owners and teachers

• (3) skilled artisans and mechanics

• (4) miners and soldiers

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

• (1) Development of States Rights

• (2) Results of Manifest Destiny

• (3) Elements of Reconstruction

• (4) Limits on Civil Rights

The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Radical Reconstruction by providing for the

• (1) resignation of President Rutherford B. Hayes

• (2) removal of federal troops from Southern states

• (3) establishment of a system of sharecropping

• (4) strict enforcement of the 14th amendment

Which statement is a valid generalization about the experience of African Americans during the early Reconstruction period (1865–1870)?

• (1) They gained economic equality.

• (2) Their participation in government decreased.

• (3) They achieved legal rights through constitutional amendments.

• (4) Their political equality was opposed by most Radical Republicans.

What was one result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

• (1) Public schools were integrated nationwide.

• (2) The “separate but equal” doctrine was established.

• (3) Civil rights for African Americans were strengthened.

• (4) Northern states were forced to segregate public facilities.

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• (1) punishing the South for seceding from the Union

• (2) granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

• (3) allowing the states to veto federal laws

• (4) creating a “separate but equal” society

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

• (1) support the goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• (2) deny suffrage rights to African Americans

• (3) undermine the “separate but equal” ruling of the Supreme Court

• (4) enforce the amendments enacted during the Civil War and Reconstruction

W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington strongly disagreed over the

• (1) need for passage of the 14th amendment to acquire civil rights

• (2) benefits of the Harlem Renaissance

• (3) method and speed for attaining equal rights for African Americans

• (4) use of the federal policy of affirmative action to aid African Americans

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

• (1) integrate freedmen into American society

• (2) enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• (3) expand educational opportunities

• (4) limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

After 1877, racial segregation became widespread in the South primarily as a result of the

• (1) decline of the Ku Klux Klan

• (2) activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• (3) stationing of federal troops in the South

• (4) passage of Jim Crow laws