Reconstruction Quiz, DC USH

Congress responded to oppressive Southern groups like the Ku Klux Klan by:

• Implementing high profile trial & executions.

• Creating aggressive legislation that punished those depriving african Americans of rights.

• Cooperating with their policies as an efficient way to reestablish social order.

• Offering to relocate tens of thousands of African American sto Northern states.

Which of the following is true about Freedmen's Bureau schools?

• They were primarily paid for by donations from missionary groups.

• They were initially populated by both while & African American children.

• They were often placed in the rooms of abandoned plantation houses.

• The bureau used tax payer money first to build grammar schools & then universities.

All of the following could be considered successes of Radical Reconstruction EXCEPT:

• New educational opportunities

• Improved attitudes toward African Americans by whites

• Increased access to voting

• Economic relief & societal integration

By 1877, federal reconstruction of the South came to a close as a result of:

• Adequate expansion of African American voting rights in the South

• A sufficient social acceptance of African Americans in daily Southern life

• Economic recovery in the South that rendered federal aid unnecessary

• A compromise over the presidential election of 1877

According the Black Codes of Mississippi from 1865, the punishment for a white person who marries a person of African American descent was?

• A small fine

• Exile outside the state of Mississippi

• Life in prison

• Loss of civic rights normally offered to white citizens

Once a year, each African American in MIssissippi was required to, (according to the Black Codes of 1865):

• Show proof of legal residence & employment in writing

• Pay an annual freedman's tax

• Provide one day of unpaid labor to the community

• Renew an oath of allegiance to the state

Which of the following is most accurate regarding African Americans & lawsuits in MIssissippi according to the Black Codes of 1865?

• African Americans were allowed to bring lawsuits against white people

• No African American was allowed to charge a white person with a crime

• African Americans could bring lawsuits but were not eligible to receive financial restitution

• African Americans were only free to bring lawsuits against other African Americans

Responding to Republican efforts, Southerners passed the Black Codes, which allowed:

• The forcing of African Americans into labor contracts.

• The beating of African American workers.

• The selling of African Americans into private service.

• All of the above.