The End of Reconstruction

Which of the following best defines the term Reconstruction?

• The amendment that outlawed slavery

• The time period (1865-1877) when former confederate states were reintegrated into the country.

• The amendment that guaranteed citizenship to newly freed enslaved people and gave them equal protection.

• Strict states laws passed after the Civil War.

 Which of the following created five military districts, required Congressional approval for new state constitutions, required Confederate states give voting rights to all men, and required former Confederate states must approve the 14th amendment?

• Reconstruction Acts of 1867

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• 15th Amendment

This former clergyman became the first black senator in the history of the United States.

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Hiram Revels

• Sharecropping

After the election of 1876, a bargain was stuck that allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president if the federal government would removed troops from the southern states, thus ending Reconstruction.

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1877

These strict state laws were passed after the Civil War, restricting black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.

• Compromise of 1877

• Black Codes

• 15th Amendment

• Reconstruction Acts.

These Northerners saw the reconstruction South as a chance to get rich quickly by seizing political office now barred from the old order.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Confederates

• Colfax Massacre

These southern whites allied themselves with the northerners, and took advantage of the political openings to get rich quick.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Confederates

• Colfax Massare

These acts were passed by congress, despite President Johnson's Veto. They protected the citizenship and voting rights of black Americans in the south.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• Reconstruction Acts of 1867

This white supremacy, terrorist, organization was created by former confederates to prevent political participation by black Americans and republicans in the south.

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Confederates

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan

All of the following resulted from the end of Reconstruction EXCEPT:

• Ku Klux Klan is founded
• Jim Crow laws were passed to segregate blacks from whites and place other limits on their rights. 
• Sharecropping becomes the dominant economy in the South
• Blacks continued to enjoy increased freedoms and equality