Reconstruction Quiz

The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction was to

• prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.

• gain control of state legislatures.

• restore the Confederacy.

• improve conditions for poor whites.

The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that

• ensured the civil rights of African Americans.

• shifted the balance of power in favor of the Supreme Court.

• changed the way a President could hire government officials.

• restored the balance of power between the President and Congress.

As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to

• refuse to pay war debts.

• join the Republican Party.

• reverse Reconstruction era reforms.

• compensate former slaves.

Reconstruction came to end when

• President Johnson was impeached.

• federal troops were removed from the South.

• the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.

• the Freedmen’s Bureau was dismantled.

The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in

• electing African Americans to southern state governments.

• keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.

• redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners.

• providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.

This abolished slavery in the U.S. and states had to ratify this before they could rejoin the Union.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Bill of Rights

This guaranteed the right to vote for all male citizens. You couldn't be denied to the right to vote based on race, color or previous servitude.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Bill of Rights

These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites in public places like schools, transportation, restaurants and restrooms.

• Poll Taxes

• Compromise of 1877

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

This agreement ended Reconstruction with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the removal of federal troops from the South.

• Enforcement Acts

• Jim Crow Laws

• Compromise of 1877

• Military Reconstruction Act

This ruling decided that segregation was legal as long facilities were "separate but equal."

• Poll taxes

• Enforcement Acts

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• New state constitutions