Reconstruction

Period after the Civil War (1865-1877) in the US when southern states were reorganized and reintegrated back into the Union?

• Reconstruction

• Industrialization

• Demilitarization

• Imperialism

Before former Confederate states could rejoin the Union, the plan for Reconstruction required Confederate states to?

• ratify the 13th amendment

• grant 40 acres of land to all freedmen

• imprison former Confederate leaders

• help rebuild Northern industries

Both the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act were efforts by the federal government to?

• provide land to minority groups

• encourage settlement west of the Mississippi River

• resolve conflicts with Native American Indians

• support settlement of former planation lands

Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan included all of the following except?

• southern states must passed the 14th amendment

• 10% of voters in south must take an oath of loyalty

• south must accept the 13th amendment

• former Confederate officers will not be pardoned (forgiven)

Literacy tests and grandfather clauses were enacted in the South during Reconstruction in order to?

• increase the number of women voters

• guarantee that voters could read and write

• limit the number of African American voters

• check if former slaves met property requirements

The 15th amendment granted voting right to?

• African American women

• all women

• African American men

• Native Americans

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established the principle that in American society?

• separate but equal facilities was legal for blacks and whites

• states could establish separate schools for white students and black students

• segregation of races in public places was constitutional

• all of the above

After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used the sharecropping system to?

• set up schools to educate former enslaved persons

• maintain a cheap labor supply

• encourage freedmen to migrate north

• sell their plantations to former enslaved persons

The Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction included which of the following?

• Confederate states were divided into 5 military districts

• new southern state constitutions had to be approved by Congress

• all former Confederate states had to ratify the 14th amendment

• all of the answers are correct

These were laws passed in southern states which were designed to restrict the rights of newly freed slaves?

• 13th amendment

• Civil Rights At of 1866

• black codes

• Emancipation Proclamation