AAH Unit 4 Review

During the era of Reconstruction, sharecroppers were exploited in all the following ways, EXCEPT?

• They were charged high prices for food

• Planters controlled all the records

• They were subjected to rape

• White planters weighed the cotton

Who believed the former Confederacy should be treated as 'conquered area'.

• Whigs

• Radical Republicans

• Free Soilers

• Democrats

What was the period of Reconstruction under Lincoln and Johnson known as?

• Radical Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Northern Reconstruction

• Southern Reconstruction

What was the name of the period of Reconstruction when Radical Republicans controlled Congress?

• Radical Reconstruction

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Northern Reconstruction

• Southern Reconstruction

What caused the Radical Republicans to feel the need to seize control of Reconstruction?

• Southern governments refused to surrender to federal troops

• Invasion of Scalawags

• African Americans were killed, injured and intimidated

• Carpetbaggers in the South

Which of the following describes someone from the North who migrated South to make a fortune off of the war destruction?

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Democratic Redeemers

• Radical Republicans

What law established how former Confederate states would be readmitted into the Union?

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Reunification Act of 1848

• Reconstitution Act of 1900

• Reestablishment Act of 1850

What agreement resulted in Rutherford B. Hayes becoming President of the United States and the remaining federal troops being withdrawn from the South during Reconstruction?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1865

• Compromise of 1877

What happened if a sharecropper could not pay his debts?

• Hanged

• Sold into slavery

• Required to work indefinitely for the planter

• Sent to jail

What college for vocational studies was founded by Booker T. Washington?

• Benedict College

• Tuskegee Institute

• Fisk University

• Howard University