Chapter 2 Reconstruction Test Review

Agricultural workers gave most of the harvest to the landowner and only got to keep what was left.

• sharecropping

• impeachment

• segregation

• poll tax

This process is used by a legislative body to charge a public official with wrongdoing

• impeachment

• segregation

• sharecropping

• poll tax

Special tax that people had to pay to vote

• poll tax

• impeachment

• segregation

• Jim Crow laws

The forced separation of whites and blacks in public places

• segregation

• impeachment

• poll tax

• sharecropping

A secret organization that used violence and terror against African Americans

• Ku Klux Klan

• Copperheads

• Radical Republicans

Congress refused to readmit southern states into the Union in 1865 because

• the representatives of the new governments failed to declare secession illegal

• the new governments failed to revise their constitutions by that year

• the representatives of the new governments had been leaders of the Confederacy

White southerners called these people "carpetbaggers"

• northern-born Republican office-holders who had moved to the South

• African American Republicans who took over Confederate seats

• former slaves living in the north who voted with the Republicans

The agency called The Freedmen's Bureau

• infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in southern states

• worked to enforce the Black Codes

• gave relief for freed people and some poor southerners

What was Lincoln's main vision for Reconstruction?

• To quickly return the South to its previous way of life

• To see freed slaves living as equals with their white counterparts

• To reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible

The Ku Klux Klan was able to obtain a great amount of power in the South before 1870 because

• the Klan received public support from Congress to continue its work

• the Klan provided jobs for people who supported the group's beliefs

• local governments did little to stop the group's violence