Reconstruction

Free people who had previously been enslaved were known as __________.

• freedmen

• unslaved

• new citizens

• righteous and harmonious fists

Which was a result of the Reconstruction Acts?

• All freedmen were provided land.

• Congress divided the South into military districts, and placed it under martial law.

• Plantation owners were forced to give their land to poor whites who did not own land.

• Congress decided to put Confederate leaders in charge of the executive branch.

When African-American men gained the right to vote, how did this affect political parties?

• Most African American men voted for white Democrats.

• Radical Democrats became powerful before reconstruction began.

• This increased the power of the Republican Party during Reconstruction.

• This did not change politics very much, because many African American men secretly voted before the Civil War anyway.

Black Codes were intended to...

• help African Americans gain land.
• limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves.
• to remove Federal troops from their region.
• to give African Americans a code to communicate.

Which of the following tried to limit the rights of African Americans in order to help the planter elite hold onto slavery-like conditions?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Abraham Lincoln

• Black Codes

• Radical Republicans

Radical Republicans thought President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was too easy on the South and did not protect freedmen. After Johnson decided to remove the Secretary of War, what did they do about this?

• They voted to re-elect President Lincoln.

• They tried to impeach President Johnson.

• They set their differences aside in hopes of uniting the nation.

• They vetoed his plan and wrote a new one.

Which policies increased as the South reacted to the 14th and 15th Amendments?

• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Fugitive Slave Laws
• Big Stick Diplomacy

Reconstruction ended in ____ with a compromise over the election of 1876.

• 1865
• 1900
• 1861
• 1877

How would the Southerners feel about Northern carpetbaggers?

• resented them

• welcomed them

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• equal treatment for all people
• laws that made segregation legal
• a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
• the period of time after the Civil War