Reconstruction Era Quiz Review

15th Amendment

• Southern whites who supported the Republican Reconstruction plan

• Time period between 1865-1877 where the South rejoined the Union

• Gave voting rights to all males regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late 19th century

• Abolished slavery in the United States

The information in the box above is an example of which of the following from the Reconstruction Era?

• carpetbaggers

• black codes

• impeachment

• amendments

In the Reconstruction South the Ku Klux Klan did which of the following?

• All of the choices are correct

• Was one of many secretive organizations dedicated to white supremacy.

• Used scare tactics that either bordered on violence or were violent.

• Operated as a paramilitary force serving the Democratic party.

What was the main accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• securing protections for Southerner's voting rights

• preventing violence against Confederates in the South

• providing aid and education to emancipated slaves

• helping Confederate states get readmitted to the Union

The literacy test, poll tax, and grandfather clause were devised mainly to --

• limit the number of African Americans qualified to vote

• raise money for political campaigns

• eliminate fraudulent voting practices

• establish consistent national voting requirements

A system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop is called --

• segregation

• sharecropping

• exoduster

• tenant farming

Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of --

• the 14th and 15th amendments

• tenant farming and sharecropping

• Black Codes

• the Freedmen’s Bureau

Which of the following was intended and included in the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

• to undermine the South's black codes by calling for equality for African Americans

• Both A & B

• to set curfews and restrict the right of assembly for black Americans.

• to give males and females the right to vote without restriction.

• to serve to limit Southern representation in Congress.

In their plans for Reconstruction, what did Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, the Wade-Davis (Radical Republican) Plan, and President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan seek to carry out?

• Force the Southern States to pay reparations to the Federal Government

• Establish the Republican Party as the only political party in the South

• Punish the South for starting the Civil War

• Allow the Southern States to reenter the nation as quickly as possible

What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?

• Federal aid to the South was controlled by Republicans.

• Radical Republicans retained control of Congress.

• Republicans received powerful cabinet positions.

• Rutherford B. Hayes became president.