Reconstruction Era Questions

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford was nullified by the passage of the

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 13th and 14th amendments

• Compromise of 1850

• Reconstruction Act

The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to Radical Reconstruction by providing for the

• resignation of President Rutherford B. Hayes

• removal of federal troops from Southern states

• establishment of a system of sharecropping

• strict enforcement of the 14th amendment

After 1877, racial segregation became widespread in the South primarily as a result of the

• decline of the Ku Klux Klan

• activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• stationing of federal troops in the South

• passage of Jim Crow laws

After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over

• the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union

• a proposal to repeal the Emancipation Proclamation

• reduction of the army and the navy to prewar levels

• congressional efforts to pay the Confederate war debt

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

• support the goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• deny suffrage rights to African Americans

• undermine the “separate but equal” ruling of the Supreme Court

• enforce the amendments enacted during the Civil War and Reconstruction

What was a result of the disputed presidential election of 1876?

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

• Slavery was reestablished 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.

A primary reason for the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1868 was to:

• prohibit the secession of states

• uphold the legality of the Black Codes

• continue the presidential plan for Reconstruction

• guarantee citizenship rights to the newly freed slaves

In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to:

• withdraw federal troops from the South

• support the Black Codes

• award the presidency to Democrat Samuel Tilden

• accept the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford

Which of the following groups was created by Congress to protect the rights of Southern African Americans during Reconstruction?

• the Black Codes

• the Jim Crow Society

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Freedmen’s Bureau

Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of:

• the 14th and 15th amendments

• the Freedmen’s Bureau

• Black Codes

• tenant farming and sharecropping