FAC Reconstruction

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• an organization established by Congress to aid freedmen and poor southerners
• an organization made up of a group of newly freed African Americans
• a group created to establish rules and regulations for freedmen in the U.S.
• a group designed to aid Reconstruction by building the economy of the South

Why was the verdict in the Plessy v. Ferguson case significant?

• It legalized segregation in the U.S. as long as “separate-but-equal” facilities were provided.
• It gave African Americans hope for obtaining equal rights in the United States.
• It showed that the federal government was beginning to shift its focus from civil rights.
• It ended the reign of the oppressive Jim Crow laws in the United States.

After General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, the main priority of the United States was to-

• Elect a new president and vice president
• Complete construction of the Capitol
• Establish Union forts in the former Confederate states
• Implement a plan to bring Confederate states back into the Union

How did the sharecropping system limit the opportunities for African Americans to own farms and property?

• Most sharecroppers lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then failing to make much money selling their crops.
• Most sharecroppers were not paid their fair share of the profit from the landowners for the selling of the crops they grew.
• Most sharecroppers were forced to grow crops like corn and wheat, which were never in high demand by the American public.
• Most sharecroppers had to live off of the crops they grew for food and as a result never had any goods left to sell.

The Homestead Act required people to farm on land for _____years to get ____ acres of land for free.

• 10 years, 50 acres
• 7 years, 180 acres
• 1 year, 80 acres
• 5 years, 160 acres

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To make China more powerful.
• To make Native Americans move off of their land.
• To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.
• To give immigrants a job, to feel important, and needed in America.

Who did the federal government say should be in charge of rebuilding Southern economies and towns after the Civil War?

• South Carolina
• The States
• The Confederacy
• The U.S. government

Following the Civil War, many Southern states enacted Black Codes to

• provide free farmland for African Americans
• guarantee equal civil rights for African Americans
• restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons
• support the creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau

In their plans for Reconstruction, what did both President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson seek to carry out?

• punish the South for starting the Civil War
• force the Southern States to pay reparations to the Federal Government
• allow the Southern States to reenter the nation as quickly as possible
• establish the Republican Party as the only political party in the South

Which action marked the end of Reconstruction in the United States?

• the ratification of the 14th amendment
• the withdrawal of federal troops from the South with the signing of The Compromise of 1877
• the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau by Abraham Lincoln
• the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson and the withdrawal of federal troops