Reconstruction

Reconstruction succeeded in its goals of restoring the Union and helping to

• regulate the railroads

• eliminate the Ku Klux Klan

• destroy the Freedmen’s Bureau

• repair the war-torn South

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

• prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.

• gain control of state legislatures.

• restore the Confederacy.

• improve conditions for poor whites.

The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that

• ensured the civil rights of African Americans.

• shifted the balance of power in favor of the Supreme Court.

• changed the way a President could hire government officials.

• restored the balance of power between the President and Congress.

As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to

• refuse to pay war debts.

• join the Republican Party.

• reverse Reconstruction era reforms.

• compensate former slaves.

Reconstruction came to end when

• President Johnson was impeached.

• federal troops were removed from the South.

• the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.

• the Freedmen’s Bureau was dismantled.

The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in

• electing African Americans to southern state governments.

• keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.

• redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners.

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

In his presidential Reconstruction plan, Andrew Johnson

• put the South under strict military control.

• was more generous than Lincoln.

• matched Lincoln’s plan exactly.

• allowed some slavery to continue.

The goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to

• prevent African Americans from voting.

• force African Americans to move north.

• help former slaves adjust to freedom.

• abolish slavery.

A major failure of Reconstruction was that

• racist attitudes continued in the North and South.

• the South’s cotton production never recovered.

• war debts remained unpaid.

• no African Americans were voted into Congress.

The Reconstruction Act of 1867

• gave voting rights to all Southerners.

• closed the South to scalawags.

• closed the South to Democrats.

• put the South under military rule.