Reconstructing the South

What was one major effect of poll tax laws that the South passed after the Civil War?

• Formerly enslaved people who were poor were usually unable to vote.

• Improved education for African Americans.
• Economic growth in the South.
• Increased voting rights for all citizens.

Southern states passed grandfather clauses along with poll taxes and literacy tests in order to:

• win political support from Southern Radical Republicans.

• raise money to fund the expansion of the Freedmen's Bureau.

• prevent African Americans from voting while still allowing poor white people to vote.

• protect formerly enslaved people's right to vote in state elections.

What was one of the most important parts of Abraham Lincoln's plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War?

• Making sure that slavery would not return in the South

• Allowing Southern states to control their own affairs

• Using federal power to help the South enforce new Black Codes

• Punishing Southern leaders for betraying the United States

During Reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln planned to use federal resources to:

• promote industrialization in the Northeast
• support the establishment of new territories in the West
• protect formerly enslaved people's civil rights in the South.

• fund the construction of railroads in the North

What was one of the most important parts of Andrew Johnson's plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War?

• Protecting former slaves from discrimination in the South

• Having the South return to the Union as quickly as possible

• A strict punishment for all former Confederates.
• Immediate economic sanctions against the South.

Cause & Effect

??? What caused Radical Republicans to take control of Reconstruction.

• Radical Republicans threaten to remove Andrew Johnson from office.

• Radical Republicans use poll taxes to interfere with Southern elections.

• Radical Republicans force Abraham Lincoln to fire his secretary of war.

• Radical Republicans win support from the South by passing the Black Codes.

Which statement best completes this diagram?

• Radical Republicans join together with proslavery Southerners.

• Radical Republicans override presidential vetoes of new laws.

• Radical Republicans refuse to support the Tenure of Office Act.

• Radical Republicans back Democratic candidates for president.

The Reconstruction Act because?

• It was designed to establish a new political party in the South.
• The Act aimed to limit the power of Southern states over their economies.
• The Reconstruction Act was necessary to rebuild the South and protect the rights of freed slaves.
• It was created to promote industrialization in the North.

Southern states made voters pass literacy tests after the Civil War because they:

• wanted to improve education for all voters.
• aimed to increase voter participation among minorities.
• sought to promote economic growth in the South.
• knew most formerly enslaved people could not pass the tests.

How did literacy test laws affect politics in the South after the Civil War?

• They prevented many formerly enslaved people from voting.

• Literacy tests increased voter participation among all races.
• Literacy tests were abolished immediately after the Civil War.
• Literacy tests had no impact on political power in the South.