Reconstruction EOC

1. Which statement best summarizes Radical Republicans' strategy for reforming the South?

• A) Give Southern leaders the freedom to implement the laws as they see fit.

• B) Compromise with Southern leaders, but be firm.

• C) Pass federal laws that force change on Southern society.

• D) Threaten the South with another war if it refuses to change.

2. Which point of view about Reconstruction is illustrated by this cartoon?

• A) Northern troops destroyed stability in the South.

• B) Northern industry supplied weapons to the South.

• C) Northern civilians exploited the economy in the South.

• D) Northern politicians provided goods to those in the South.

3. Which statement best explains why the Radical Republicans were opposed to President Johnson's plan?

• A) It created agencies that protected the rights of former slaves.

• B) It appointed temporary governors to head Confederate states.

• C) It allowed the election of former Confederate soldiers to public office.

• D) It permitted the presence of military forces in the former rebel states.

4. Which practices were introduced in Southern states after Reconstruction to circumvent the 15th Amendment?

• A) African-American freedman increased their participation in government in the nation's first experiment in biracial democracy.

• B) Poll taxes, literacy tests, and residency requirements were passed, which African Americans more than other citizens

• C) White and black children in Southern states were required to attend separate, racially segregated public schools, and to use separate playgrounds.

• D) "Jim Crow" laws imposed racial segregation in public places, including trains, restaurants, and hotels.

5. What was a positive long-term impact of Reconstruction on the South?

• A) Women were given the right to vote.

• B) Confederate leaders never again held elected office.

• C) Public education systems were established for students.

• D) The South remained divided into five districts governed by martial law.

6. What was an important effect of the "sharecropping system" and "debt peonage"?

• A) Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South.

• B) Freedmen played an important role in local and state government.

• C) Freedmen achieved economic independence from their former masters.

• D) Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.

7. Why did Congress propose the 14th Amendment? "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges . . . [of U.S. citizens]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person . . . [equal protection under the law]".

• A) The increase in lynchings of emancipated slaves.

• B) The passage of Black Codes throughout the South.

• C) The emergence of white resistance to the Civil Rights Movement.

• D) The attempts of Democrats to limit the voting rights of African Americans.

8. What impact did Radical Republicans in Congress have on Reconstruction?

• A) They opposed the passage of the 15th Amendment.

• B) They encouraged the freedmen to exercise their new political rights.

• C) They persuaded President Johnson to pardon former Confederate leaders.

• D) They prevented President Johnson from sending federal troops to the South.

9. What was the central theme of Thomas Nast's "Worse than slavery" political cartoon?

• A) Opponents of Reconstruction were using violence to intimidate the freedmen.

• B) Different groups of Southerners were cooperating to rebuild the South after the war.

• C) The Ku Klux Klan and other private associations in the South were assisting the freedmen.

• D) The 14th Amendment protected the rights of freedmen despite the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.

10. Which social practice was upheld by the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• A) Job training

• B) Free public schooling for all races

• C) Racial segregation in public places

• D) African-American participation in politics