End of Reconstruction and New South

Why did African Americans lose their land that was given to them by the Freedmen's Bureau?

• President Johnson pardoned white landowners and returned their land.

• President Lincoln did not want land included in agreements to end the war.

• President Grant returned the land as part of the compromise with insurgents.

• President Jefferson Davis negotiated the return of the land before his surrender at the end of the war.

Which of the following was South Carolina required to do by Radical Republicans and the military governor?

• End the KKK immediately

• Ratify the 14th and 15th Amendments

• Allow women to vote

• End Sharecropping agreements

Who did the federal government believe was responsible for rebuilding the economies in the southern states after the war?

• Individual states and local governments

• Northern philanthropists

• Federal government

• Churches and charities

Which of the following describes a "scalawag" during Reconstruction?

• Newly freed slaves who were competing with the poor white population.

• Veterans of the Civil War who refused to return to civilian life in the South.

• Northern citizens who moved South to take advantage of the disorder and destruction.

• Southerners who supported the Republicans who would benefit from the education and eonomic opportunities.

What was the name given to northern immigrants who came to South Carolina during Reconstruction as teachers and businessmen?

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen

• Democratic Republican

The main occupation for African Americans during Reconstruction was ________________________.

• Carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• Slaves

• Sharecroppers

Which provision was found in Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?

• Southern elite must request a pardon and ratify the 13th amendment

• South Carolina had to recognize the end of slavery and write a new constitution

• Military districts were created to punish the South

• Fifteen percent of the Southern elite were required to pledge allegiance to the Confederacy

How did the southern states try to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction after 1877?

• By adopting federally-mandated segregation

• By enacting Jim Crow Laws

• By abolishing the southern sharecropping system

• By securing passage of new amendments to the Constitution

What was the result of the disputed Presidential Election of 1876?

• Reconstruction ended as federal troops were removed from the South.

• Slavery was re-established in the South by state legislatures.

• New state laws were passed in the South to guarantee equal rights for African Americans.

• A constitutional amendment was adopted to correct problems with the electoral college system

What was the purpose of Black Codes during Reconstruction?

• The codes were laws meant to protect the constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

• The codes were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans subordinate to whites.

• The codes established educational standards for freedmen.

• The codes provided forty acres and a mule to freedmen.