APUSH Chapter 15 Quiz

The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871, were designed to:

• end Reconstruction by allowing state governments to oversee citizenship rights.

• stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

• increase the authority of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

• eliminate racial discrimination in public spaces such as hotels and theaters.

Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of southern governments run by Republicans during Reconstruction?

• state-supported public schools

• widespread transformation of plantations into black-owned farms

• pioneering civil rights legislation

• tax incentives to attract northern manufacturers to invest in the region

Most of those termed “scalawags” during Reconstruction had been:

• owners of large southern plantations before the Civil War.

• enslaved African-Americans before emancipation.

• Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the South.

• non-slaveholding white farmers who supported the Union.

All of the following are true of passage of the Fifteenth Amendment EXCEPT:

• it split the feminist movement into two major organizations.

• the Democratic Party bitterly opposed it.

• it opened the door to voting restrictions not based on race.

• it guaranteed suffrage to all African Americans

In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the __________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Sumner-Stevens Act

• Reconstruction Act

When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he:

• argued that it discriminated against whites.

• contended that it gave too much authority to the states.

• contended that it gave too much authority to the states.

• signed it, therefore alienating himself from Democrats

The southern Black Codes:

• allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.

• allowed former slaves to testify in court against whites and to serve on juries.

• were some of the first laws adopted as part of Radical Reconstruction in 1867.

• were denounced by President Johnson and declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant:

• jobs

• land ownership

• voting

• jury duty

The Bargain of 1877:

• allowed Samuel Tilden to become president.

• was made by Grant to prevent his impeachment over the Whiskey Ring.

• brought a major political realignment of Southerners into the Republican Party.

• ended Reconstruction and military occupation of the South.

Presidential Reconstruction refers to the plan administered by President:

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Ulysses S. Grant