QUIZ - RECONSTRUCTION ERA

Which era involved legislation enacted by the Radical Republicans?

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

• Early Republic

• Antebellum

Many historians argue that the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln changed the course of Reconstruction. Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change?

• Congress repealed legislation regulating railroad construction

• The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress

• Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts

• Radical Republicans took control of Congress

Neither slavery nor involuntary sevitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

-Thirteenth Amendment, U.S. constitution

• Many former slaves were awarded money by former Confederate leaders

• Many plantation owners were forced to give land to former slaves

• Many former slaves became sharecroppers to earn a living

• Many plantation owners attempted to recapture former slaves

All men are created equal, say the great Declaration and now a great act attests this verity. Today we make the Declaration a reality.... The Declaration was only half established by Independence. The greatest duty remained behind. In assuring the equal rights of all we complete the work.

-Senator Charles Sumner,1870

What is the "great act" referred to by Senator Sumner in this excerpt?

• The Senate's readmission of the last Confederate state

• The addition of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the U.S. Senate

• The Senate's acquittal of President Andrew Johnson

• The election of the first woman to the U.S. Senate

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

• The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

• The popular sovereignty provision i nthe Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform

• The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

Freedmen's Bureau provided food, shelter, and clothing, negotiated and enforced labor contracts and---

• Provided funds for farming supplies

• Granted small-business loans

• Established schools

• Certified applications for political office

Which of the following reversed the Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• The Dawes Act

• The Compromise of 1877

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which of these describes a result of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office.

• State governments were required to protect individual rights.

• African Americans in the North could vote

• African Americans in the South could move elsewhere

What was the main cause of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868?

• His opposition to Radical Reconstruction policies for former Confederate states

• His opposition to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

• His refusal to investigate reported criminal activity by the Union army during the Civil War

• His refusal to use the Homestead Act to redistribute land to former slaves

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By keeping renters in debt to landlords

• By expanding the region's dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government