Reconstruction (1865-1877) U.S. History Test Study Guide

After the war, Robert E. Lee . . .

• ran for president of the United States

• became president of Washington College

• campaigned for Ulysses S. Grant for president

• volunteered to run the Freedmen's Bureau

Which president generally supported Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Andrew Johnson

• Samuel Tilden

For what alleged reason was Andrew Johnson impeached?

• His personal secretary was involved in fraud

• He was involved in the Credit Mobilier Scandal

• He vetoed the Military Reconstruction Act

• He dismissed a Radical secretary of War

What was not one of the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Granted full citizenship for all races

• Prevented states from depriving any person of his rights "without due process of law"

• Granted suffrage to all races

• Prevented former Confederate leaders from holding office except with congressional approval

What was not one of the provisions of the Military Reconstruction Act?

• The South was divided into five military districts

• Congress selected a military governor for each district

• Each state had to pass the Fourteenth Amendment

• Each state had to write a new constitution granting universal male suffrage regardless of race

What was not one of the functions of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• distributing food and clothes to African Americans

• building schools for African American children

• Organizing Radical state governments

• providing an alternative court for freedmen

Who was Hiram Revels?

• the South's most famous carpetbagger

• the first black to serve in the U.S. Congress

• a senator involved in the Credit Mobilier Scandal

• the leading Radical in the U.S. Senate

What was the most extreme response to Reconstruction in the South?

• the Black Codes

• the Ku Klux Klan

• Redeemers

• Scalawags

Which of the following was not a positive contribution of Radical governments in the South?

• public school systems

• universal manhood suffrage

• disfranchisement of Southern whites

• rebuilding of transportation systems

Why did sharecropping become common in the South during Reconstruction?

• The Radicals imposed sharecropping on the South

• Southerners wanted to restore a plantation economy

• The South lacked sufficient money to pay wages

• The South wanted the freed slaves to buy their own land