Reconstruction (USI)

The congressional leader of the Radical Republicans was

• Samuel J. Tilden

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Horace Greeley

• Hiram Revels

When Reconstruction began, which of the group living in the South support the Democratic party?

• Radicals

• African Americans

• Carpetbaggers

• Whites

After the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments, Af-Am continued to experience oppression because

• the amendments weren't supposed to solve their problems

• discriminatory laws were passed by Southern states

• Af-Am distrusted the federal government

• Af-Am never learned about their new rights

During Reconstruction, both President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson

• establish the Republicans as the only party in the South

• force Southern States to pay damages to the Federal Gov.

• punish the South for starting the Civil War

• allow the Southern States to reenter as quickly as possible

literacy tests and the actions of the KKK were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of

• civil rights laws passed in all states after the Civil War

• the 14th and 15th amendments

• the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

• immigration laws

Southern states attempted to limit constitutional amendments during the Reconstruction Era by

• ending racial discrimination

• seceding from the Union

• passing Jim Crow Laws

• fighting the Civil War

The Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson provided for

• voting rights for Af-Am males

• separate facilities based on race

• free land for former slaves

• racial integration of schools

Period in American history between 1865 and 1877.

• Compromise of 1877

• Wade-Davis era

• Reconstruction

• the Civil War

Who was sharecropping the least beneficial to?

• merchants

• sharecroppers

• banker

• landowner

prohibiting the right to vote based upon race was made illegal with the

• 12th Amendment

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment