AMSCO 298 - 303

Which of the following would NOT be associated with Reconstruction in the South?

• shift from agricultural to industrial economy

• African Americans elected to office

• sharecropping replacing slave labor

• new schools and churches for former slave

Eventually Congress removed the punishments on all but the top leaders of the Confederacy with the

• Amnesty Act
• Compromise of 1877
• Redeemers Act
• Freedman's Act

The Compromise of 1877 included all of the following EXCEPT

• ratification of the 13th Amendment
• election of Rutherford B Hayes as president
• removal of federal troops from the South
• support for a Southern transcontinental railroad

The Southern conservative politicians who took over the South at the end of Reconstruction were known as

• Redeemers
• Klansmen
• Radicals
• Liberal Republicans

During Reconstruction, all of the following were true EXCEPT:

• the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were intended to help them

• the Freedmen's Bureau was set up to help provide education

• many Freedmen's lives were similar to the time of slavey

• many Freedmen were give large sections of land to start their own farms

Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as president in 1876 in part if he agreed to which of the following?

• to support a nationwide Black Code

• to remove federal troops from the South

• to promote Southern industrial development

• to support civil service reform

Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels were significant for which of the following reasons:

• They were the first two African Americans elected to the House of Representatives

• They were the first two African Americans elected to the U. S. Senate

• They were the first two African Americans to serve as cabinet level positions in the Executive Branch of the U. S. Government

• They were the first two African Americans to play in Major League Baseball

Many former slaves who had previously been a slave on a plantation in the South found themselves in a similar situation following the Civil War. What was the system called where Freedmen would end up staying on the same plantation they had lived on for years:

• sharecropping

• forced servitude

• tenant farming

• contract farming

The founding of the Ku Klux Klan will occur during the early years of Reconstruction. What was the basis of the origins of the KKK during Reconstruction:

• to intimidate African American men who were voting and serving in political office

• to seek revenge against the Union army and use surprise attacks on the troops which remained in the South

• to intimidate people who practiced the Catholic and Jewish faiths

• to crusade against the Women's Rights Movement to prevent women from gaining the right to vote

The Presidential Election of 1876 is significant for multiple reasons. In the end, the results of the election will signal the end of Reconstruction. What will occur following the Election of 1876 that ends Reconstruction:

• the withdrawal of all Union troops in 1877

• the takeover of Southern State governments by a majority Democratic legislature

• the Election of Jefferson Davis as the Governor of Mississippi

• the banning of dancing in High Schools throughout the South