Reconstruction

Which action was an attempt by southern state governments after the Civil War to limit the rights of African Americans?

• 1. ratification of the 13th amendment

• 1. implementation of the Black Codes

• establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• 1. impeachment of President Andrew Johnson

In the South, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the 1870s and 1880s led directly to the

• 1. racial integration of public schools

• 1. decline of the Democratic party

• 1. organization of the Ku Klux Klan

• 1. segregation of public facilities

What was one result of the election of 1876?

• Fighting in the Civil War continued.

• Reconstruction officially ended.

• Federal troops remained in the South.

• Discrimination ended in the South.

  
  

The system of sharecropping developed in the South after the Civil War because

• most formerly enslaved persons had no farming skills

• 1. owners of large tracts of land faced labor shortages

• 1. much farmland was ruined by the war

• 1. plantation owners wanted to diversify crops

Which actions did Southern States take to keep African Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed in this amendment?

• 1. suspending habeas corpus and denying women the right to vote

• 1. collecting poll taxes and requiring literacy tests

• establishing religious and property-holding requirements for voting

• 1. passing Black Codes and establishing segregated schools

What was one reason the 14th and 15th amendments failed to prevent future racial segregation?

• 1. Most Northern abolitionists opposed the extension of these rights. 

• The Supreme Court refused to accept cases to interpret these amendments

• Radical Republicans in Congress stopped African Americans from voting

• The South was allowed to pass Jim Crow laws and restrict voting rights.

After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over

• the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union

• 1. a proposal to repeal the Emancipation Proclamation

• reduction of the army and the navy to prewar levels

• 1. congressional efforts to pay the Confederate war debt

The Radical Republicans in Congress opposed President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction because Lincoln

• 1. called for the imprisonment of most Confederate leaders

• 1. rejected the idea of harsh punishments for the South

• 1. planned to keep Northern troops in the South after the war

• demanded immediate civil and political rights for formerly enslaved persons

Which conclusion about presidential elections is supported by the information on this map?

• 1. Territories receive a minimum of three electoral votes.

• The geographically larger states receive more electoral votes.

• 1. Most northern states voted for the Democratic candidate.

• The popular vote does not solely determine the outcome of elections.

The “separate but equal” doctrine established by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld the legality of

• 1. women's suffrage in state elections

• 1. the activities of the Ku Klux Klan

• 1. racial segregation in public facilities 

• 1. restrictions on voting rights of African Americans