RECONSTRUCTION ERA

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.

What is one political impact of the Reconstruction Era on the United States?

• Three new amendments to the Constitution were approved.

• Senators could be directly elected to the national legislature.

• Southern states rejoined the Union under their pre-war state constitutions.

• Western territories rushed to achieve statehood after slavery was outlawed.

Despite limited success, the Freedmen's Bureau greatly contributed to -

• raising income levels of newly-freed enslaved people

• expanding education opportunities for newly-freed enslaved people

• redistributing plantation lands to newly-freed enslaved people and land owners

• forcing southern state governments to recognize the votes of newly-freed enslaved people

According to the excerpt, what was required of former Confederate states for readmission to the Union?

• STATE CONSTITUTIONS HAD TO INCLUDE A BILL OF RIGHTS

• State legislatures had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

• State lawmakers had to live within the state for one year.

• State voters had to choose a new president for the United States

How did many southern state governments respond to the efforts of Reconstruction to recognize new freedoms for African Americans?

• Several state governments passed laws to limit the opportunities of African Americans.

• Several state governments recalled national legislators and again proposed secession.

One of the social problems that emerged during Reconstruction with a goal of limiting the new opportunities for formerly enslaved African Americans included —

• creation of the KKK

• Impeachment of Andrew Jackson

• Formation of Sharecropping

One major political focus of the Reconstruction Era concentrated on —

• repaying Civil War veterans for their services during the war

• rebuilding war-torn states as well as restoring southern state governments

• including former enslaved people as representatives in the national government

• rewriting the U.S. Constitution to create a new federalist system for the United States

Which agreement resulted from the informal Compromise of 1877 between southern Democrats and northern Republicans?

• Southern states accepted federal tariffs in exchange for new railroad construction and investments in southern industries.

• Due to a contested election, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes would be chosen president by Congress in exchange for federal troops being removed from southern states to end Reconstruction.

Which social change resulted from the 13th amendment?

• All enslaved people in the United States were freed.

• Former enslaved people were given the right to vote.

• Enslaved persons became citizens of the United States.

How did efforts of the Radical Republican Congress during Reconstruction have a lasting political impact on southern states?

• The Republican Party would win most elections in southern states until the 1960s.

• The Democratic Party would dominate the politics of southern states for a century following the Civil War.