Unit 2 - Reconstruction

Northern politicians who strongly opposed Presidential Reconstruction and felt the South should be punished for their role in the Civil War were called _____________________.

• Radical Republicans

• Carpet Baggers

• Yankees

• Sympathizers

Which amendment gave all men the right to vote? 

• 15th Amendment
• 1st Amendment
• 22nd Amendment
• 4th Amendment

What aspect helped Radical Reconstruction change the South?

• Strong government leadership
• Military control
• White Southern support
• Lincoln's leadership

Congressional Reconstruction under the Radical Republicans meant that

• white Southerners could not vote

• Democrats would be forbidden to hold office

• Congress would be taking over the south

• the terms for rejoining the Union were made more difficult

The Freedmen's Bureau succeeded in-

• Redistributing formally white-owned land to black southerners.

• Keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of political office.

• Providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.

• Electing African Americans to southern state government legislatures.

Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by-

• Passing black codes.

• Holding separate constitutional conventions.

• Refusing to pay war debts.

• Refusing to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to-

• Prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.

• Gain control of state legislatures.

• Restore the Confederacy.

• Improve conditions for poor whites.

Following the Civil War, many poor white southern laborers could no longer find work because of-

• competition from freedmen.

• new government work regulation.

• their illiteracy.

• their involvement in anti-freedmen groups.

The most visible new black organizations that developed in the South following the Civil War were-

• military clubs

• churches

• colleges

• political parties

In 1870, as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment, southern black men-

• voted for the first time.

• took control of the U.S. Senate.

• received free government land.

• produced their own Reconstruction plan.