USHC RECONSTRUCTION - BOOT CAMP

What was the result of the disputed Presidential Election of 1876?

• Reconstruction ended as federal troops were removed from the South.

• Slavery was re-established in the South by state legislatures.

• New state laws were passed in the South to guarantee equal rights for African Americans.

• A constitutional amendment was adopted to correct problems with the electoral college system

What was the purpose of Black Codes during Reconstruction?

• The codes were laws meant to protect the constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

• The codes were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans subordinate to whites.

• The codes established educational standards for freedmen.

• The codes provided forty acres and a mule to freedmen.

Which of these directly impacted the voting of southern African Americans after the Civil War?

 (Choose 3 that apply)

• Violence and intimidation by angry whites

• Ratification of the 15th Amendment

• Poll taxes and literacy tests

• 13th and 14th Amendments

How did the southern states try to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction after 1877?

• By adopting federally-mandated segregation

• By enacting Jim Crow Laws

• By abolishing the southern sharecropping system

• By securing passage of new amendments to the Constitution

What was a significant reason why Radical Republicans opposed President Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?

• Lincoln's plan granted too many rights to formerly enslaved persons.

• Lincoln's plan demanded payments from the South that would have damaged the South's economy.

• Lincoln's plan postponed the readmission of southern states into the Union for many years.

• Lincoln's plan would have allowed white southerners to quickly return to power.

Which of the following was the primary reason for secession, the Civil War, and eventually the 13th Amendment?

• The annexation of Texas into the Union.

• The popularity of the abolitionist movement.

• The controversy over slavery as the nation moved west.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

What was the overall goal of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments?

• Granting universal manhood suffrage

• Upholding rights of free speech and religion

• Decreasing the power of the federal government

• Recognizing the basic civil liberties of African Americans

Southern states creating laws to restrict the rights of former slaves to vote violated which of the following amendments?

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Immediately after the Civil War and the granting of their freedom, most former slaves did whichof the following?

• Remained in the South to find employment
• Moved to the North to find jobs in factories
• Migrated to the West to acquire cheap land
• Moved to the West to work on the railroads

The “Black Codes” that emerged in the South following the Civil War were created primarily to do which of the following?

• Provide assistance to freed slaves and poor whites displaced after the war
• Allow the federal government to segregate the races in order to protect freed slaves
• Create a method by which Southern states could prevent freed blacks from using theirnew rights
• Generate a process by which Southern lands would be confiscated by the US and used toprovide freed slaves with “40 acres and a mule.