Reconstruction Quiz Deep Reading 1 Exam

What was the main goal of Reconstruction (1865-1877)?

• To reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States

• To expand the territory of the United States

• To establish a new government in the Southern states

• To create a separate country for the newly-freed people

What were the 'Black Codes' passed by new southern state legislatures during Presidential Reconstruction?

• Laws providing financial aid to the newly-freed people

• Laws promoting equality and freedom for all citizens

• Laws designed to control the labor and behavior of former enslaved people and other African Americans

• Laws aimed at increasing the political power of African Americans

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Abolished the Union Army

• Granted more power to the Confederate states

• Enslaved more people in the Confederate states

• Freed more than 3 million enslaved people in the Confederate states by January 1, 1863

What did the 14th Amendment to the Constitution do?

• Broadened the definition of citizenship, granting 'equal protection' of the Constitution to formerly enslaved people

• Granted more power to the southern states

• Restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people

• Abolished citizenship for African Americans

What was the most radical development of Reconstruction?

• The expansion of the Ku Klux Klan

• The increase in power of the southern states

• The participation of African Americans in southern public life

• The rise of white supremacist organizations

What marked the end of Reconstruction as a distinct period?

• The Compromise of 1876

• The passing of the 14th Amendment

• The election of President Ulysses S. Grant

• The formation of the Ku Klux Klan

What did the Civil Rights Act become after President Johnson's veto?

• A bill that was later repealed

• A bill that was supported by President Johnson

• A bill that was never passed

• The first major bill to become law over presidential veto

What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?

• Granted more power to the southern states

• Abolished the southern state governments

• Temporarily divided the South into five military districts and outlined how governments based on universal (male) suffrage were to be organized

• Established the Ku Klux Klan

What did the 15th Amendment guarantee?

• That only wealthy citizens could vote

• That only white citizens could vote

• That a citizen's right to vote would not be denied 'on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude'

• That only men could vote

What did the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations target during Reconstruction?

• Local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority

• Southern state governments

• Northern voters

• The Union Army