Ch.10 Assessment

The actions of the Freedmen's Bureau helped to prevent

• economic recovery

• mass starvation

• plantation labor

• special courts

President Johnson proclaimed that each former Confederate state had to call a Constitutional Convention to revoke its ordinance of secession and ratify the

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

How did President Grant react to the rise of the KKK after the Civil War?

• He chose to ignore it

• He ordered Union Troops to invade and impose martial law

• He wanted to intervene, but feared it would only result in more violence against African Americans

• He was outraged and backed legislation outlawing the Klan's activities

What housed schools, hosted social events and political gatherings, and were the center of many African American communities?

• churches

• government buildings

• plantations

• town halls

In order to be readmitted into the Union, each former Confederate state had to hold a new constitutional

• Convention

• office

• rally

• strike

After gaining their freedom, many African Americans were elected to serve in state governments. Most aligned themselves with the

• African Independence Party

• Democratic Party

• Free-soil party

• Republican Party

The outcome of the election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president is known as

• carpetbagging

• debt peonage

• the Compromise of 1877

• the Panic of 1873

When the powerful banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company was forced to declare bankruptcy, the nation's financial community felt a wave of fear called

• Compromise of 1877

• Panic of 1873

• Scandal of 1873

• Scandal of 1877

To receive a pardon under Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and

• accept that formerly enslaved people were now free

• pay damages to the North

• promise never to secede again

• set up schools for freed people

President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act

• firing General Grant

• firing Secretary of War Stanton

• not replacing cabinet members

• running for a third term as president.