Reconstruction Review

This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the---

• Age of Jackson

• Second Great Awakening

• War of 1812

• Reconstruction Era

Which era in U.S. history is the focus of this article?

• The Jacksonian Era

• The antebellum era

• The Federalist Era

• The Reconstruction Era

Many historians argue that the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln change the coure of reconstruction. Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change.

• Radical Republicans took control of Congress

• Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts

• The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress

• Congress repealed legislation regulating railroad construction

Which of the following competes this diagram?

• President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Thirteenth Amendment

After General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appommattox Court House, the main priority of the United States was to---

• elect a new president and vice president

• complete construction of the Capitol

• establish Union forts in the former Confederate states

• implement a plan to bring Confederate states back in the Union

How did the Freedmen's Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?

• By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

Establishment of the South's first state-funded public school system Implementation of a more equitable taxation system Prohibition of racial discrimination in public transportation and accommodations These reforms were instituted by---

• governors during the colonial era

• Reconstruction governments after the Civil War

• Patriots during the American Revolution

• revivalists after the Second Great Awakening

Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1866

*Designated all people born in the United States (except American Indians) as citizens

*Granted all citizens certain rights under the law

What is the historical significance of this act

• It was the first time Congress voted to overrule a presidential veto.

• It represented a shift in federal power after the impeachment of President Johnson.

• It was the first time Congress passed a law that protected racial minorities.

• It represented the failure of northern abolitionists to influence Reconstruction policies.

Northerners who came to the South after the war were  and were called ___ because they carried what they had in bags that looked like carpets.

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan

A secret society whose members threatened and murdered African Americans were called ___.

• scalawags

• carpetbaggers

• Ku Klux Klan