Reconstruction Quiz

Which group in Congress took control of Reconstruction and worked to expand civil rights?

• Democrats

• Redeemers

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

Which laws passed in the South placed limits on the rights of Black people and helped bring about the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Enforcement Acts

• Freedman’s Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Black codes

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau assist freedpeople and poor southerners after the Civil War?

• by offering 40-acre plots of land

• by building schools and colleges

• by organizing mutual-aid societies

• by setting up the sharecropping system

What agricultural system kept many freedpeople trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty after the Civil War?

• sharecropping

• the plantation system

• tenant farming

• the apprentice system

Write one letter in each blank to complete the sentence correctly. As part of the effort to reverse the accomplishments of Reconstruction, southern governments used ______ and ______ to prevent Black Americans from voting.

• Poll taxes

• Property taxes

• Work contracts

• Union dues

• Literacy tests

Which of the following helped weaken northern support for Reconstruction? Choose the two correct answers.

• Panic of 1873

• Ku Klux Klan violence

• Whiskey Ring scandal

• Black codes

• Enforcement Acts

What was one direct result of the Compromise of 1877?

• Samuel Tilden became president of the United States.

• The Republican Party lost control of the federal government.

• All federal troops were removed from the South.

• The Black codes became part of federal law.

Which Statement aligns to Liconln's Plan for Reconstruction.

• A. granted amnesty
  

• B. required loyalty oath from 10% of state’s voters

• C. states had to recognize that slavery was illegal

• D. required declaration that secession was illegal

Which Statement aligns to Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction.

• A. granted amnesty
  

• B. required loyalty oath from 10% of state’s voters

• C. states had to recognize that slavery was illegal

• D. required declaration that secession was illegal

Which Statements align with BOTH Lincoln and Johnson's Plans for Reconstruction?

Select 2

• A. granted amnesty
  

• B. required loyalty oath from 10% of state’s voters

• C. states had to recognize that slavery was illegal

• D. required declaration that secession was illegal