Reconstruction

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.

As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to

• refuse to pay war debts.

• join the Republican Party.

• reverse Reconstruction era reforms.

• compensate former slaves.

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.

The goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to

• prevent African Americans from voting.

• force African Americans to move north.

• help former slaves adjust to freedom.

• abolish slavery.

A major failure of Reconstruction was that

• racist attitudes continued in the North and South.

• the South’s cotton production never recovered.

• war debts remained unpaid.

• no African Americans were voted into Congress.

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.

The Radical Republicans passed a series of laws designed to

• protect the civil rights of African Americans.

• reestablish slavery in a different form.

• unfairly tax the South.

• prohibit free speech in the South.

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.

The Civil War left the South

• competition from freedmen.

• in full control of its government.

• in ruins.

• largely unchanged from before the war.