Reconstruction Era

Before former Confederate states could rejoin the union, the plan for Reconstruction required

• Confederate states to ratify the 14th amendment

• Confederate states to grant 40 acres of land to all freedmen

• Confederate states to imprison former Confederate soldiers

• Confederate states to help rebuild Northern industries

Both the Homestead Act & 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 plantation lands

Literacy tests & grandfather clauses were enacted in the South after the Reconstruction Era to

• increase the number of women voters

• guarantee that voters could read and write

• limit the number of African American voters

• Check if formerly enslaved persons met property requirements

The 15th Amendment granted voting rights to...

• African American women

• All women

• African American men

• Native American Women

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established the principle that in American society...

• Separate but equal facilities was okay for blacks & whites

• States could establish different schools for different races

• Segregation of races in public spaces was legal

• All of the above

After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to...

• Set up schools to educate formerly enslaved persons

• Maintain a cheap labor supply

• Encourage freedmen to migrate north

• Sell their plantations to formerly enslaved persons

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

• Confederate states were divided into 5 military districts

• New state constitutions approved by congress

• All former Confederate states had to ratify 14th Amendment

• All of the above

The Dawes Act encouraged Native Americans to...

• Adopt western ways

• Give up their tribal lands in exchange for citizenship

• Consolidate Indian reservations

• All of the above

The Chinese Exclusion Act...

• Limited immigration from China to the United States

• Was supported by the Nativist movement

• Both 1 and 2

• Neither 1 or 2

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• punishing the South for seceding from the Union

• granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

• allowing the states to veto federal laws

• creating a “separate but equal” society