500 Questions: Reconstruction

Most Northerner supported the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era because they...

• supported a return to the social and political system of the prewar years

• believed that President Abraham Lincoln was best fit to lead the nation

• believed in full, immediate racial integration of American society

• did not care about the economic recovery of the South

• did not want to see the South undo the terms of the Union victory

The Freedmen's Bureau accomplished all of the following EXCEPT...

• founded African-American schools throughout the South

• supervised polling places to ensure African Americans could vote

• helped to establish African-American colleges

• built hospitals to provide medical care throughout the South

• provided food and clothing to southerns made destitute by the Civil War

What was the true reason Congress impeached President Andrew Johnson?

• He violated the Tenure of Office Act

• He fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

• He opposed the Reconstruction Acts

• He represented the opposition party, the Democrats.

• His program for Reconstruction was too harsh.

The Civil Rights amendments to the Constitution granted all of the following EXCEPT...

• equal protection of the laws to all US citizens

• US citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States

• voting rights for male citizens regardless of race

• an end to chattel slavery throughout the United States

• financial compensation to former slaves for their years of servitude

The term carpetbaggers refers to...

• northerners who traveled south after the Civil War for political or economic reasons

• white southerners who migrated north and west in search of jobs

• white southerners who who attempted to pass laws barring civil rights legislation

• African Americans who migrated north and west in search of civil rights and economic opportunity

• African Americans who ran for office under the new Reconstruction laws

Which best describes the goal of the Old Guard of the former Confederacy in the decades that followed the Civil War?

• to take revenge on the victorious North

• to rebuild the southern economy along modern industrial lines

• to work with African American southerners to achieve social and political reform

• to restore the system of race-based oppression that had existed before the war

• to elect a southerner as President of the United States

What was the main provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

• to grant voting rights to all citizens, regardless of race

• to ensure equal accommodations and services to all citizens in public places and businesses

• to grant full citizenship to all former slaves and Native Americans

• to establish armies of occupation throughout the former Confederacy

• to outlaw white terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan

Which does NOT help to explain President Johnson's Reconstruction policies?

• Johnson strongly opposed secession and the creation of the Confederacy

• Johnson grew up in the slave-holding state of Tennessee

• Johnson believed that the executive, not the legislature, should control Reconstruction.

• Johnson despised African Americans and opposed the integration of society

• Johnson supported the emancipation of the slaves only as a wartime measure

What was the purpose of the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction of 1863?

• to ease the reunion of the North and the South after a projected Union victory

• to address necessary changes to government, law, education, and society in the South after a projected Union victory

• to set forth the punishments for those who had committed treason against the United States

• to describe the duties of the federal troops who would occupy the South after the projected Union victory

• to establish diplomatic relations between the Union and the Confederacy in case of a Confederate victory in the war

Which explains why Union General William Tecumseh Sherman issued orders granting farmland to freed slaves?

• Freedmen were turning to the Union Army for support

• Only the army could settle issues related to freedmen as long as the war went on.

• White southerners who fought for the Confederacy had forfeited their property.

• The Union Army needed the freedmen to farm the land and use the crops to feed and supply the troops

• The Union Army was physically on the spot and thus able to manage the land-grant program.