Study for 4th Post!!

Which of the following identifies another way that the Freedmen's Bureau supported opportunities for former slaves in the South?

• It offered assistance for those who wanted to resettle in Africa

• It helped provide education by opening and managing schools

• It organized political parties to elect African Americans to Congress

• It provided transportation for workers migrating North for factory jobs.

"...In North Carolina for example, the (black) code enacted in 1866 allowed a black person to testify in court if the case involved African Americans; if the case involved two white people, then both had to agree to allow a black person to testify..."

What best explains the reason why codes like this were enacted in Southern states?

• to maintain the control of whites over African Americans

• to guide newly freed slaves as they gained experience as citizens

• to ensure that African Americans had the same legal rights as whites

• to meet federal standards on civil rights required for rejoining the Union

What best explains the reason why the Freedmen's Bureau was established?

• to organize African Americans into a national political party

• to encourage African Americans from the South to get jobs in the North

• to segregate African Americans through separate but equal opportunities

• to help African Americans in the South in making the change from slavery

What was the primary goal of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• enforcing private property rights for landowners

• providing essential services to former slaves

• removing restrictions to suffrage for young adults

• ending the military occupation of the Southern states

"The presidential race of 1876 led to a contested election. After several months of disagreement, in 1877 Democratic and Republican leaders agreed to a compromise. The Democratic leaders would accept the Republican presidential candidate in exchange for Republican promises to withdraw federal troops from the South..."

Which statement is supported by this information?

• the parties remained in competition for political control

• the South began to be concerned with industrial expansion

• the national focus had shifted away from civil rights issues

• the North continued to be concerned with protecting states' rights

"Without land of their own, many blacks were drawn into schemes where they worked a portion of the land owned by whites for a share of the profit from the crops..."

Based on this excerpt, how did the economy of the South change in the 1870s?

• high prices increased the demand for agricultural crops

• sharecropping replaced slavery as the main labor system

• workforce reduction limited the ability of farmers to profit from crops

• limited work opportunities encouraged mass migration to other areas

"Reconstruction Act of 1877: new state constitutions had to provide for universal make suffrage, new state constitutions had to be approved by a majority of registered voters, states had to ratify the 14th Amendment"

What was the main purpose of these requirements?

• to gain political support from advocates of states' rights

• to specify how former states of the Confederacy could rejoin the Union

• to make it more difficult for newly freed slaves to enjoy the rights of citizenship

• to recognize the constitutions ratified by Southern states during the Confederacy

In 1820, the Missouri Compromise included provisions to ban slavery in some federal territories. The Supreme Court overturned those provisions in its Dred Scott v. Sanford ruling in 1857. How did Congress eventually invalidate the Supreme Court's decision?

• it asked state courts to uphold the provisions

• it impeached the justices who made the rulings

• it rejected the ruling with a two-thirds majority vote

• it passed the 13th Amendment to make slavery illegal

Which of the following best replaces the question mark in the diagram?

• supporting active public interest groups

• defending the actions of public officials

• learning about the positions of candidates

• helping organize political campaigns

Texas During Reconstruction: the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, Texas plantation owners had very little cash, a new system of labor was necessary for farming."

How did Texas address the labor problems described above?

• farmers began to recruit workers from northern cities

• freed slaves began sharecropping in Texas

• local leaders began hiring temporary workers from Europe

• Texas repealed child labor laws that were in effect during the war