Final Spring 2024 Review

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.

Reconstruction succeeded in its goals of restoring the Union and helping to

• regulate the railroads

• eliminate the Ku Klux Klan

• destroy the Freedmen’s Bureau

• repair the war-torn South

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.

In his presidential Reconstruction plan, Andrew Johnson

• put the South under strict military control.

• was more generous than Lincoln.

• matched Lincoln’s plan exactly.

• allowed some slavery to continue.

The Reconstruction Act of 1867

• gave voting rights to all Southerners.

• closed the South to scalawags.

• closed the South to Democrats.

• put the South under military rule.

What was the verdict in President Johnson’s impeachment trial?

• He escaped conviction by one vote.

• He was forced to confess his guilt.

• He was removed from office.

• He was found guilty.

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms