Reconstruction Test

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction period after the Civil War?

What was the significance of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• It allowed women to vote

• It banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote

• It established the prohibition of alcohol

• It created the Supreme Court

What was Lincoln's plan for readmitting Confederate states to the Union?

• Required 50% of voters to swear allegiance

• Pardoned most Confederates who swore allegiance

• Required states to pay war debts

• Demanded immediate abolition of slavery

What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?

• Required states to abolish slavery

• Required states to swear allegiance and forgive war debts

• Required 50% of voters to swear allegiance

• Required states to provide land to freed slaves

What was the congressional plan for Reconstruction?

• To support Johnson's vetoes

• To pass the Fourteenth Amendment

• To oppose the Civil Rights Act

• To maintain the status quo

Who were "carpetbaggers" during the Reconstruction era?

• Southern plantation owners who lost their land

• Northerners who moved to the South after the war

• Southern soldiers who fought in the Civil War

• African American leaders in the South

What was the impact of the Civil War on the South's economy?

• The economy flourished with new industries

• The economy was largely unaffected

• The economy was in ruins with destroyed infrastructure

• The economy shifted to a focus on technology

Which political party began to take over southern politics during Reconstruction?

• Democratic Party

• Whig Party

• Republican Party

• Federalist Party

Who was the first African American senator?

• Frederick Douglass

• Hiram Revels

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

What is sharecropping?

• Renting land for cash

• System where landowners leased land for a portion of crops

• Buying land from landowners

• Working on land for free