Ch 16.3-4 PRACTICE QUIZ

Most newly freed African American voters supported the Republican Party

• True

• False

Hiram Revels was the first African American to serve as a presidential adviser.

• True

• False

A scalawag who moved to the North was considered a carpetbagger.

• True

• False

Many Reconstruction-era Democrats supported the Ku Klux Klan.

• True

• False

Some freed African Americans borrowed money from the Freedmen’s Bank to buy land.

• True

• False

Southern whites who supported Republican policy throughout Reconstruction were sometimes called

• carpetbaggers

• freedmen

• Republican hostages

• scalawags

Northerners who moved to the South and supported the Republicans were called

• carpetbaggers

• freedmen

• Republican scalawags

• sharecroppers

For a brief time during Reconstruction, African Americans had a majority of seats in the lower house of which state’s legislature?

• Alabama

• Ohio

• South Carolina

• Tennessee

Which method did some white Southerners use to try to overcome Republican rule?

• civil rights legislation

• cooperation

• violence

• voting reform

Which of the following did many African American workers find to be little better than slavery?

• integration

• land ownership

• moving north

• sharecropping