Civil War and Reconstruction

By the end of the Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States

• found themselves owners of the land their ancestors had worked on as slaves

• began to migrate in massive numbers to the rural South to pursue farming jobs.

• had made tremendous economic and social gains in the South as a result of constitutional amendments.

• found themselves increasingly left out of the political process because of poll taxes and literacy tests.

Which statement best describes the "Compromise of 1877" regarding the election dispute between Hayes and Tilden?

• Democrats accepted Hayes in exchange for being able to appoint the next Supreme Court Justice.

• compromise failed

• compromise allowed southern plantation owners to ignore the 13th Amendment in exchange for their support of Tilden.

• Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn from the South and voting rights of the freedmen decided by state governments.

What was the main purpose of General Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864?

• convince France and Britain to get out of the war.

• capture the important railroad depot at Charleston.

• permanently destroy Georgia's ability to produce cotton.

• destroy the South's strategic and economic capacity to fight.

Which of these battles was a major victory for the Union in the American Civil War? (Hint it was the turning point)

• Gettysburg

• First Bull Run

• Second Bull Run

• Chickamauga Creek

Which amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was important to the Union war effort because

• Union gained control of the Mississippi River

• convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy.

• important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces.

• Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his forces as a direct result of Sherman's victory.

Jefferson Davis played what role in the Civil War?

• Union general

• Confederate general

• President of the Confederate States

• Cabinet member of the U.S. government

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

• provide 40 acres and a mule to each former slave.

• gain the vote for millions of former slaves.

• provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

• investigate, arrest, and prosecute members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Which group was created in late 1865 to resist Reconstruction efforts in the South?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• Knights of Columbus

What were "Black Codes"?

• protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

• forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.

• were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.

• were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.