Unit 11 Review

Which breakthrough did Hiram Rhodes Revels accomplish during Reconstruction?

• He became the first African American soldier to serve in an integrated Union Army unit.

• He became the first African American to win a seat in the U.S. Congress.

• He became the first African American to publish literature.

• He became the first African American to build wealth as a carpetbagger.

What was the purpose and effect of grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and literacy tests imposed

in the South after Reconstruction?

• to keep public facilities segregated

• to limit African American voting rights

• to shut down the sharecropping system

• to support American Indian reservations

How did delegates from Southern states evade federal laws established during

Reconstruction?

Select TWO correct answers.

• Becoming Scalawags

• Overturning the 13th amendment

• Enacting Black Codes

• Relocating to Northern states

• Forming the Ku Klux Klan

How did the 13th Amendment to the Constitution affect the population of the South?

• It set up Carpetbaggers who came South to administer justice.

• It provided citizenship with all of its protections for freed slaves.

• It allowed slaves the right to vote although they had little opportunity to do so.

• It freed slaves to search for employment as sharecroppers.

This political cartoon comments on events that occurred during the —

• Reconstruction era

• Age of Jackson

• Second Great Awakening

• War of 1812

Which of the following topics describes the Reconstruction era?

Select TWO correct answers.

• annexation of Texas to the United States

• Creation of the Northwest Ordinace

• ratification of the 14th and 15th amendments

• conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. Government

• division of the south into distinct military districts

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

In 1867 Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts of 1867. These

acts temporarily divided the South into five military districts,

outlined how governments based on universal male suffrage

would be organized, and required southern states to ratify the

Fourteenth Amendment.

Which of the following expresses a goal of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?

• To rebuild the plantation economy of the South

• To protect the rights of African Americans in the South

• To encourage former slaves to leave the South

• To restore the Democratic Party to power in the South

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?

• By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

• governors during the colonial era

• Reconstruction governments after the Civil War

• Patriots during the American Revolution

• revivalists after the Second Great Awakening

What is the historical significance of the Mississippi legislature choosing Hiram Rhodes Revels to serve as one of the state’s U.S. senators in 1870?

• He was the first African American man seated in the Senate.

• He was the first African American senator to oppose Reconstruction.

• He was the first African American senator to resign from office in protest.

• He was the first formerly-enslaved African American man to serve as a senator.