African Americans and Reconstruction

During Reconstruction in the South, African Americans

• became members of the Democratic Party

• served in state legislatures and the US Congress

• were unable to found or build their own schools

• could vote in state elections but not federal ones

The National Equal Rights League was founded by

• the Republican Congress

• African Americans

• Northern carpetbaggers

• Southern Democrats

One way the National Equal Rights League fought for equality was to

• reject Reconstruction

• lobby Congress

• stop scalawags

• create Black Codes

How many African Americans politicians served in the US Congress during Reconstruction?

• 60

• 160

• 16

• 600

The term carpetbagger was a nickname for

• Southerners who worked to repeal African American voting rights laws

• Northerners who came to the South and supported African American equality

• Southerners who supported Reconstruction and African American equality

• Northerners who worked to repeal African American voting rights laws

The term scalawag was a nickname for

• Southerners who supported Reconstruction and African American equality

• Southerners who worked to repeal African American voting rights laws

• Northerners who worked to repeal African American voting rights laws

• Northerners who came to the South and supported African American equality

In the years after the Civil War, African Americans in the South

• tended to join and vote for the Democratic Party

• usually voted the same as white Southerners

• often had larger voting populations than whites

• did not have enough votes to enact change

During Reconstruction, more than six hundred African American men

• served as members of Southern state legislatures

• attended Virginia's Constitutional Convention

• were elected to Congress from Southern states

• were delegates to state constitutional conventions

Which best explains why there were no African Americans serving in the US House of Representatives by 1887?

• Many African American politicians had left office to work for the Freedmen's Bureau

• Southern whites had worked to repeal laws that allowed African Americans to hold office

• African Americans were focusing on politics on the state level rather than the national level

• African American politicians mainly chose to run for the US Senate instead of the House

Why did the Freedmen's Bureau operate longer than the year that was originally planned?

• The agency was becoming too big and unwieldy to manage

• Congress found additional funds to keep the agency open

• The agency had made no progress helping freed people

• The issues it addressed were more complicated than expected