Failures of Reconstruction Quiz

What was the purpose of Special Field Order No. 15?

• To provide food and clothing to freed slaves

• To end the program of the Freedmen's Bureau

• To establish Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• To give Black families 40-acre parcels of land

What was the role of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To provide job training to freed slaves

• To help African Americans become senators and representatives

• To pass Jim Crow laws

• To implement Black Codes in the South

Who became the first African American senator?

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Hiram R. Revels

• General Sherman

• Joseph H. Rainey

What were Black Codes?

• Laws to provide education to former slaves

• Laws to keep freed slaves in positions of servitude

• Laws to end sharecropping

• Laws to combat the Ku Klux Klan

What economic system emerged after the Civil War?

• Segregation

• Jim Crow laws

• Sharecropping

• Redeemer governments

What was the purpose of the Force Acts?

• To provide job training to freed slaves

• To establish Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• To pass Jim Crow laws

• To combat the Ku Klux Klan

Who became president after the Compromise of 1877?

• General Sherman

• Hiram R. Revels

• Joseph H. Rainey

• Rutherford B. Hayes

What marked the end of Reconstruction?

• The passing of the 14th and 15th Amendments

• The Compromise of 1877

• The end of the Civil War

• The establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau

What did Southern whites regain control of?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• State and local governments

• The Ku Klux Klan

What did Southern plantation owners still own after Reconstruction?

• Most of the land

• The 40-acre parcels given to Black families

• The rights of African Americans

• The power in Congress