Reconstruction Quiz (1.1/1.2)

"Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen.” Which evidence best supports this statement?

• passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century

• ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

• refusal of Southern States to allow sharecropping

• passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866

"[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it, he told me to give a reasonable interpretation and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out." Source: A History of the United States since 1861

The main intent of the literacy test described in the passage was to?

• encourage reform of the political system

• encourage Mississippi residents to learn about their state’s legal system

• prevent African Americans from exercising a basic right

• enforce the provisions of the United States Constitution

The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by,

• improve the status of African Americans

• state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African-Americans

• states to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan

• the Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans

Poll taxes and literacy tests were devices used to

• deny African Americans the right to vote

• extend suffrage to women and 18-year-old citizens

• raise money for political campaigns

• prevent immigrants from becoming citizens

After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because

• the amendments were not intended to solve their problems

• many African Americans distrusted the Federal Government

• Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws

• poor communications kept people from learning about their legal rights

How were many African Americans in the South affected after Reconstruction ended in 1877?

• A constitutional amendment guaranteed their social advancement

• Freedmen’s Bureau helped them become farmowners.

• Jim Crow laws placed major restrictions on their rights.

• Southern factories offered them job training and employment opportunities

“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges . . . of citizens . . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. . . .” The major purpose of these provisions of the 14th Amendment was to

• limit the power of the federal government

• expand the civil rights of women

• maintain competition in business

• protect the rights of African Americans

The Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), provided for

• free land for former slaves

• separate public facilities based on race

• racial integration of public schools

• voting rights for African-American males

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes passed by Southern states were attempts to

• provide land to former slaves

• punish former Confederate leaders

• repeal the Jim Crow laws

• deny equal rights to African Americans

The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the United States by the

• Emancipation Proclamation of 1863

• creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865

• ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865

• Compromise of 1850