MCAP Civil War & Reconstruction Review

What was one effect of the Civil War on the Northern economy?

• Agricultural production decreased.

• Factory production increased. 

• Inflation decreased.

• Unemployment Increased.

What is misleading about describing Jim Crow South as "separate but equal?"

• Everyone ended up sharing the same spaces.

• Divisions among groups were rarely enforced.

• African Americans' facilities were usually inferior (less than equal).

• These laws applies only to schools

How did Southerners attempt to resist Reconstruction efforts?

• They joined the Ku Klux Klan, a group that intimidated African Americans into not voting.

• They tried to convince African Americans to join the Democratic Party.

• They passed legislation preventing African Americans from running for office.

• All of the above

Why did many sharecroppers end up in poverty and debt?

• Sharecroppers were given a loan from the government, but rarely earned enough money to pay back what they owed.

• Sharecroppers had to borrow money from plantation owners to buy the supplies they needed. Few earned enough money to pay back what they owed.

Poll taxes effectively worked against:

• Black Codes

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• Literacy tests

• Jim Crow laws

The presidential election of 1876 was a disputed election over the…

• Enforcement Act

• popular vote

• electoral vote.

• Amnesty Act

Why did Congress pass the Fourteenth Amendment?

• to protect the rights of former enslaved people after the Civil War

• to increase the number of people who could vote

• to drive President Johnson out of office

• to abolish slavery in the United States

In which of the following ways did black codes affect freedmen?

• They gave freedmen the right to vote in the South.

• They kept freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South.

• They encouraged freedmen to attend school.

• They provided food and medical care to freedmen.

What was one result of the Bargain of 1877?

• The Radical Republicans impeached President Andrew Johnson.

• Ulysses S. Grant was promoted to General in the Union Army.

• Rutherford B. Hayes became President of the United States.

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Dred Scott

All of these were included in President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan EXCEPT:

• Cancellation of war debts

• new state constitutions for Confederate states

• ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

• Guarantee of voting rights for freedmen.