Reconstruction/Western - Quiz 3

Which Amendment provided equal protection for civil rights under the law for all citizens and was made by Congress to specifically react to discriminatory laws in the south called "black codes."

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 17th Amendment

Which Amendment was attacked by southern laws that attempted to undermine it by creating poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and literacy tests? It's achievement was that it gave black men the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 17th Amendment

Which group tried to help blacks adjust to life after slavery by helping them gain land, understand contracts, and provide education for former slaves who had not been allowed to be educated when they were slaves?

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Democrats

What was the name of the occupation that most slaves ended up having to work in, where they had to rent part of their former master's land, and give back a portion of what they produced to their master? It often led them to continuously remain in debt to their former master and was almost a form of economic slavery - even after blacks had received freedom.

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Blacksmithing
• Serfdom
• Sharecropping

Whose reconstruction plan was lenient toward the south, not seeking to punish the south, and was also NOT looking to guarantee any more rights to blacks besides their freedom from slavery.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson
• Radical Republicans
• Thaddeus Stevens

What WAS NOT A GOAL of the Radical Republicans' (Congressional) reconstruction plan?

• Giving Blacks the right to vote
• Creating and maintaining a freedmen's bureau to help former blacks adjust to slavery
• Creating 5 military districts to ensure southern states accepted reconstruction amendments and not allow the south to break away again
• Reestablish a power structure of white supremacy within the south similar to what existed before the Civil War

What was the name given by southerners to the northern Republicans that traveled to the south to do things like govern, educate blacks, buy southern land, or work in the Freedmen's bureau? They were often disliked by southerners and seen by southerners as occupiers and opportunists who were there to profit off of the south's misery after the Civil War.

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• Radical Republicans
• Turncoats

Which event led to the end of the military occupation in the south, also ended Radical Reconstruction, and left blacks to fend for themselves against the reestablishment of white supremacy in the south?

• The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
• Congressional Reconstruction
• The 15th Amendment
• The Compromise of 1877

What is the name for southern voting laws that created an exception for white voters so that they did not have to prove they could read in order to vote and kept whites from having to pay a poll tax like black voters did? These laws basically said if whites were related to people who voted before reconstruction, they wouldn't have to follow the same voter requirements as blacks did.

• Literacy Test
• Grandfather Clause
• Poll Tax
• Voter's Competency Clause

Whose presidency took place during reconstruction and was characterized by great achievements in supporting blacks like cracking down on the KKK and passing our nation's first hate crime legislation, but was also undermined by scandals within the president's own administration?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Andrew Johnson
• Samuel Tilden