Reconstruction Exam Review

What view does Lincoln express about future Reconstruction in his Second Inaugural Address?

• The damage done to the Union by the South can never be fully repaired.

• The South must be severely punished for having threatened the Union.

• The South should be welcomed back to the Union with justice and kindness.

• Confederates should be banned from public life for their role in causing the Civil War.

What name was given to Northerners who came South during the Reconstruction Era to help freedmen or find new opportunities?

• Imperialist

• Sectionalist

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawag

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

• To punish former Confederate officials for participating in the Civil War

• To train freedmen to take positions as workers in Northern Factories

• To help freed slaves by providing them with food, clothing, and education

• To provide jobs for Northern Carpetbaggers who hope to make their fortunes in the South

This cartoon represents which side of Reconstruction

• President Johnson became he wanted to punish the South

• President Johnson because he wanted to help African Americans

• Radical Republicans because they wanted to punish the South

• Radical Republicans because they wanted to help the South become self-sufficient

The quote above best represents which Reconstruction group?

• President Johnson because he used his presidency to help improve the conditions of the Freedmen

• Radical Republicans because they created the Freedmen's Bureau to help former slaves.

• Scalawags because they used their new found economic power to help rebuild the South.

• The White League because they were a fraternity that had the sole mission of reuniting America after the Civil War.

What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1860s and 1870s?

• to help freedmen to register to vote in state and federal elections

• to terrorize freedmen so that they would not exercise their new rights

• to collect contributions for white Southerners about to lose their farms

• to provide an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties in the South

Which group wanted to punish the South by placing Union military in each district to ensure voting rights for freedmen?

• Radical Republicans

• Southerners

• The KKK and White Leauge

• The Red Shirts

What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage?

• Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South because of how rich they were

• Freedmen played an important role in local and state government because of the money they earned

• Freedmen achieved economic independence and great wealth from their former masters

• Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.

Use the text of the 15th Amendment to answer the question.

• African-American freedmen increased their participation in government in the nation’s first experiment in biracial democracy

• Poll taxes, literacy tests, and residency requirements were passed, which affected African Americans more than other citizens

• White and black children in Southern states were required to attend separate, racially segregated public schools, and to use separate playgrounds.

• “Jim Crow” laws imposed racial segregation in public places, including trains, restaurants, and hotels.

Which amendment guaranteed the “equal protection” of all the laws to all American citizens?

• 1st Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment