Unit 2 Test: Reconstruction

Which of the following wanted to punish the Confederate states during Reconstruction?

• Radical Republicans
• Lincoln
• Johnson
• Jim Crow

Which of the following Amendments abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and

• accept that formerly enslaved people were now free.
• pay damages to the North.
• promise never to secede again.
• set up schools for freed people.

In the Compromise of 1877, Hayes was elected President agreeing to:

• support the 15th amendment
• outlaw the Ku Klux Klan
• end reconstruction
• allow Congress to impeach Johnson

Southern whites restricted the freedom of African Americans soon after the Civil War by using:

• the federal courts
• congressional aid
• Freedman’s Bureau
• Black Codes

The ____________ was a secret society, started in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 by former Confederate soldiers that rapidly spread throughout the South.

• Grand Army of the Republic
• Grange
• Ku Klux Klan
• D. Whiskey Ring

Hiram Revels was the first African-American -

• U.S. senator.
• army general.
• cabinet member.
• Supreme Court justice.

Which best describes the economic situation of many African Americans in the South after the Civil War?

• Slavery was replaced by the cycle of poverty through sharecropping
• Mining provided the best opportunities
• Advances in technology brought an end to agricultural work
• Opportunities in the South outnumbered those in the North

After gaining their freedom, many African Americans were elected to serve in state governments. Most aligned themselves with the

• African Independence Party.
• Democratic Party.
• Free-Soil Party.
• Republican Party

Formerly enslaved African Americans were providing with food, clothes and education during Reconstruction by the:

• Black Codes
• Jim Crow
• 15th Amendment
• Freedman’s Bureau