Unit 4 Bellringers

The era of Congressional ("Radical") Reconstruction can be seen as a failure because...

• it prevented Southern states from holding elections.

• it punished all people in the Southern states equally.

• it resulted in the severing of ties with former European allies.

• it continued to allow former Confederates to hold most of the power.

• it did not adequately protect former slaves from having their rights violated.

Which statement regarding the era of Reconstruction is FALSE?

• the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery in all American states

• state laws and customs upheld the constitutional amendments

• the 14th Amendment made African-Americans citizens of the U.S.

• federal law was changed to abolish slavery in states where it still existed

What was the effect of the use of literacy tests throughout the South after the U.S. Civil War?

• women were denied the right to vote

• an increase in voter turnout by African Americans

• the poor and African Americans not being allowed to vote

• an increase in the power of the Republican Party in the South

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to...

• provide 40 acres and a mule to each former slave.

• gain the vote for millions of former slaves.

• provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

• investigate, arrest, and prosecute members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Which group was created in late 1865 to resist Reconstruction efforts in the South?

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Scalawags

• the Radical Republicans

• the Knights of Columbus

The "Compromise of 1877" regarding the election dispute between Hayes and Tilden is BEST characterized by which of these facts?

• The Democrats accepted Hayes in exchange for being able to appoint the next Supreme Court Justice.

• The compromise failed and in a bitterly fought battle the House of Representatives elected Hayes as President.

• The compromise allowed southern plantation owners to ignore the 13th Amendment in exchange for their support of Tilden.

• Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn from the South and voting rights of the freedmen decided by state governments.

Sullivan is suggesting that the United States...

• will not be truly free without abolition.

• must have a social revolution to become great.

• is meant to expand across the continent and become extraordinary.

• is a nation built on historically successful political practices, guaranteed to succeed.

Which of these BEST describes the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It allowed slavery to remain unaltered in states who already used slave labor.

• The President publicly endorsed the abolition of slavery in southern states.

• Former slaves were afforded the right to join the war effort.

• It immediately freed the slaves throughout the country.

Which BEST describes a result of the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• A slave had the right to sue for freedom in a federal court.

• A slave was only a citizen after he or she purchased freedom.

• A slave was not a citizen but rather the property of an owner.

• A slave who lived on free soil for any length of time was free.

The issues behind the Compromise of 1850 included all of the following EXCEPT...

• enforcing of the fugitive Slave Act.

• the ruling in the "Dred Scott" case.

• the policy regarding slavery in the territories.

• the balance between slave states and free states.