Reconstruction Review

Southern state and local elections in 1876 differed from those in previous years in that

• women were allowed to vote for the first time.

• African-American candidates won numerous local and state offices.

• Republican party candidates were soundly defeated by the Democrats.

• citizens were finally able to vote in the U.S. Presidential election.

Which of these BEST describes the Compromise of 1877?

• Johnson is almost impeached and Jim Crow ends.

• Hayes becomes President and Reconstruction ends.

• Tilden sued Hayes for control of the presidency.

• Grant becomes President and Reconstruction begins.

Following the Civil War, the Radical Republicans in Congress

• allowed the South to pass the Black Codes.

• pardoned southern leaders for Civil War actions

• hoped to reunite the country as quickly as possible

• regarded the southern states as conquered territory

"Reconstruction" refers to

• problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy

• the admission of Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.

• federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to rebuild the Union and to monitor the treatment of former slaves.

• the establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on industrial machinery

Members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) MOST LIKELY intimidated Southern voters in order to

• continue the Civil War

• recruit new Klan members

• drive freedmen to the South

• achieve the Klan's political ideals

What Amendment abolished slavery in the US?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 12th

The Black Codes

• protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves

• forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians

• were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.

• were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery

What brought on the end of Reconstruction?

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Democrats’ rise to power in Congress in 1874

• Liberal Republicans' split the party in 1872

• President Hayes’s removal of federal troops from the South in 1877

What was the MAIN purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• help slaves adjust to their newfound freedom

• battle terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan

• serve as a voice for freed slaves in Congress

• establish Black Codes to limit freed slaves' rights

What was the main goal of the 15th Amendment?

• to punish southern states

• to avoid another Civil War

• to grant women the right to vote

• to grant former male slaves voting rights