Texas Reconstruction Unit Test review 7th grade

Which political party wanted a return to the antebellum South following the Civil War?

• Know-Nothing Party

• Democratic Party

• Nativist Party

• Republican Party

Which of these prompted congress to propose the 14th amendment?

• the popular sovereignty provision on the kansas-nebraska act

• the positions taken in the know-nothing party

• the black codes enacted by southern states after the civil war

• the opposition by southern states to the battle of vicksburg

What does reconstruction mean?

• to tear apart

• to leave

• to rebuild

• to organize

what did President Lincoln plan to do after the Civil War?

• To punish the South

• To reunite the nation

• To declare martial law

• To resign from the presidency

Who was granted suffrage under the 15th amendment?

• Native Americans

• women

• freed slaves

• carpetbaggers

what is somehting the freedmans bureau helped with?

• Expanded tenant farming to former slaves and poor whites

• Granted citizenship to former slaves

• Permitted former slaves to vote in elections

• Established schools for former slaves to attend.

What group tried to limit African Americans' rights through violence and intimidation?

• the kkk

• the nazi party

• the republican party

• the conquistadors

Who were sharecroppers?

• factory workers

• plantation owners who rented land to people

• farmers who rented land or paid land owners to use then land by sharing crops they grew

• vampires

What president was elected as president based on the promise to end reconstruction?

• abraham lincoln

• james k polk

• andrew johnson

• rutherford b. hayes

Which statement explains the purpose of the military government in the south during reconstruction?

• it prevented carpetbaggers from operating former confederate businesses

• it protected and ensured the rights of newly freed enslaved people

• it provided money and weapons to newly freed enslaved people

• it prohibited african americans from running for public office