Reconstruction - Practice Reading Quiz

Which of these was an important provision of the Radical Republicans’ Reconstruction Act of 1867?

• It ended Reconstruction

• It legalized black codes

• It offered pardons to Confederate Generals

• It returned the south to military rule

The Radical Republicans passed a series of laws designed to

• reestablish slavery in a different form

• unfairly tax the south

• protect the civil rights of African Americans

• prohibit free speech in the South

The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that

• changed the way the President could hire government officials

• protected the civil rights of African Americans

• restored the balance of power between the President and Congress

• expanded the power of the Supreme Court

In 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment, southern black men

• voted for the first time

• took charge of the Senate

• received free government land

• produced their own Reconstruction plan

Carpetbaggers were northern Republicans who

• moved to the postwar South

• voted with the Democrats

• had once supported secession

• hired freedmen to work on plantations

Which was a characteristic of agriculture in the South after the Civil War?

• Freedmen wanted to work for their former owners

• An emphasis on cash crops

• An even distribution of wealth

• A decline in cotton production