US Final Exam

As the Civil War came to a close, southern states began to pass a series of discriminatory state laws collectively known as

• Black Codes

• People of Color Codes

Draconian state laws helped spur the congressional Joint Committee on Reconstruction into action. Its members felt that ending slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment did not go far enough.

• True

• False

Congress extended the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau to combat the growing prevalence of black codes and passed the first Civil Rights Act in

• 1866

• 1776

Support for Reconstruction policies waned after the early 1870s, undermined by the violence of white supremacist organizations such as

• The Klu Klux Klan

• The Tea Party

• Radical Republicans

• Hyper Democrats

Draconian state laws helped spur the congressional Joint Committee on Reconstruction into action. Its members felt that ending slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment did not go far enough.

• True

• False

Congress extended the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau to combat the growing prevalence of black codes and passed the first Civil Rights Act in

• 1866

• 1776

• 1860

• 1964

 The Compromise of 1877 resolved the tumult that had arisen following the 1876 presidential election and resulted in the election of this President

• Rutherford B Hayes

• Samuel Tilden

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

The Compromise of 1877 gave white Southerners their chance to

• bring back slavery

• end the military occupation of the South

• gave them a chance to have a re-election

• gave white southerners their land back

The removal of the federal soldiers from the southern streets and from statehouse offices signaled

• The end of the Civil War

• The end of the Republican Party's commitment to protecting the civil rights of African Americans and marked the end of Reconstruction.

• The begining of a new more Progressive South

• The end of racism in the South

Southern Democrats, for their part, pledged that they would “recognize the civil and political equality of blacks.” They did not subsequently carry through on this promise but instead disfranchised black men from voting and imposed...

• Jim Crow Segregation accross the South

• Laws protecting African Americans

• Desegregation Laws accross the South

• Another Civil Rights Act