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What did the policy of dividing the South into these military districts achieve?

• It helped the South’s manufacturing industry recover from the Civil War, but the region’s agricultural industry collapsed.

• It helped the South’s manufacturing industry recover from the Civil War, and the region became the industrial center of the country.

• It helped protect and provide opportunities for African Americans, but these successes were reversed when the policy ended.

• It helped protect and provide opportunities for African Americans, and these successes led to permanent societal changes.

How did the US government dispose of the land that it seized from private property owners during the Civil War?

• The government auctioned off the land to raise funds to pay for rebuilding infrastructure.

• The Freedmen's Bureau was created to distribute the seized land among former slaves.

• The land was given to the governments of the states in which the properties were located.

• The land was returned to the property owners from whom it was seized by the government.

The land grant given to the Morehouse College by John Rockefeller was originally the site where

• the Army of Northern Virginia offered their surrender to the Union Army.

• the Confederate Army hastily buried many of their dead while in retreat.

• the Confederacy made its stand against the advance of Sherman's March.

• the Emancipation Proclamation was first publicly read out as law in Georgia.

What were THREE goals of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• to settle labor disputes and give legal advice to former slaves

• to punish the former Confederate states for their role in the Civil War

• to provide food and medical care to those in need in the South

• to recruit individuals throughout the South to serve in the armed forces

• to establish schools to educate former slaves and help them find work

What was the longest lasting victory for civil rights achieved during Reconstruction?

• passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws in the South

• establishment of a strong two-party political system in the South

• ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

• increased prominence given to the office of the president of the United States

Which of the following BEST describes the men who founded the Ku Klux Klan in 1865?

• mercenaries hired by aristocrats in the South to terrorize African Americans

• Confederate veterans of the Civil War who resented Reconstruction policies

• carpetbaggers who came from the North to impose their lifestyle and cultural beliefs on the South

• white men who left the North because they believed African Americans were treated too well there

Which of the following statements BEST explains the nature of the compromises that led to the election outcome of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction?

• The northerners grew tired of the costs of Reconstruction and promised to withdraw their enforcement troops if the south would accept the gold standard initially proposed by President Grant.

• Southern Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford Hayes as President in a tightly contested race if the Republicans would agree to give southern states sovereignty and withdraw federal troops

• Southern Democrats agreed to accept the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution as long as the new president would agree to withdraw federal troops from the south.

• The northern Republicans offered to rebuild southern railroads if the Democrats would take larger steps in the implementation of the terms of Reconstruction.

How did this downturn MOST affect the Presidential Election of 1876?

• It caused Democrats to lose control of the border states between North and South.

• It made Northern Republicans become more willing to make concessions.

• It forced both parties to nominate politically extreme candidates for president.

• It caused many people to vote against the incumbent Republican party.

The federal government divided the South into military districts during the Reconstruction Era in response to

• the struggles of Southern states to industrialize at the pace necessary for their economies to recover.

• the redistribution of land by Southern states to punish former slaveholders and Confederate supporters.

• the inability of Southern states to adequately defend themselves against attacks by foreign aggressors.

• the passage of legislation by Southern states aimed at restricting the rights of formerly enslaved persons.