Reconstruction Review

Literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes were enacted by Southern States to

• limit the movement of African Americans

• make it more difficult for African Americans to vote

• improve the lives of African Americans

• give more educational opportunities to African Americans.

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• To punish the South for seceding from the Union.

• To grant basic rights to formerly enslaved persons.

• To allow the states to veto federal laws.

• To create a segregated society.

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

• welcome newly freed slaves into American society

• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• expand educational opportunities to newly freed slaves

• limit the rights of newly freed slaves

Slavery throughout the United States was permanently abolished by the

• Bill of Rights

• 13th amendment to the Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• Black Codes

Which statement best describes how the status of African Americans in the South changed after the end of Reconstruction in 1877?

• The Supreme Court always supported civil rights for African Americans.

• Poll taxes and literacy tests were eliminated for African Americans.

• The sharecropping system was eliminated for African Americans.

• African Americans faced increasing discrimination and segregation.

After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to

• set up schools to educate formerly enslaved persons

• encourage freedmen to migrate north

• maintain a cheap labor supply

• sell their plantation to formerly enslaved persons

The the end of Reconstruction in 1877 led to widespread racial segregation in the South primarily because

• of the decline of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• of activities of the Freedmen's Bureau

• of the creation of 5 military districts in the South

• of the passage of Jim Crow laws

Which Reconstruction Plan was lenient towards the South and allowed for the creation of black codes?

• The Radical Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

Which Reconstruction Plan dived the South into 5 military districts?

• The Radical Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

What famous Supreme Court Case ruled that "separate but equal" was legal?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. The Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

• Mrs Moore v. Mrs. O'Connor