25/26Reconstruction Assessment

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 (Radical Reconstruction) dealt specifically with

• the establishment of military reconstruction in five districts under Union generals
• the social conditions of ex-slaves
• the economic reconstruction of southern agriculture
• the rebuilding of the rail system in the South

Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction included a requirement that

• 10 percent of the voting population must take a loyalty oath to the Union
• all wartime acts outlawing slavery must be obeyed
• high-ranking civil and military officials would not be granted amnesty
• the right to vote must be extended to freed slaves

By the Compromise of 1877 the Democrats agreed to allow the Republican candidate to become president in exchange for

• a promise that they would be allowed to win the next two presidential elections.
• an end to Reconstruction.
• large personal bribes to leading Democrats.
• retroactive compensation for freed slaves.

During Reconstruction, the South became a political battleground, with various factions fighting for economic and political control. At the forefront of this fight were the scalawags, who were

• Northerners who traveled South in search of economic and political gain
• Southern Unionists, merchants, and farmers who supported Republican policies
• newly freed African Americans who ran for political office
• U.S. government and military officials who were stationed in the South

The disputed election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877 that placed Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House resulted in which of the following changes?

• Congress passed significantly lower tariff rates.
• Federal government funds were used to build the Union Pacific Railroad.
• New Mexico was granted statehood and Texas received financial compensation for ceding lands.
• Republicans agreed to remove remaining federal troops from the South and end Reconstruction.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was important because it

• Prohibited any state from denying women the right to vote
• Guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen
• Prohibited any state from denying an American citizen the right to vote based on race
• Prohibited slavery within the U.S.

During Reconstruction, Southern blacks typically did which of the following?

• Tilled farms as tenant farmers and sharecroppers
• Migrated northward, exercising their new freedom
• Owned and worked small farms
• Worked in mines and factories

What government agency is described in the image?

• Tenure of Office Act
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Black Codes

The Ku Klux Klan

• met little, if any, opposition by the Southern black community.
• kept the old Southern aristocracy in power during Reconstruction.
• utilized terrorist methods to achieve its primary goal of influencing elections.
• was a short-lived organization that did not see a revival in American history.

The Fifteenth Amendment

• abolished slavery throughout the United States
• provided citizenship for black Americans and extended the protection of due process to them
• provided that the right to vote could not be taken away based on race, creed, or previous form of servitude throughout the United States of America
• made racial segregation in public accommodations illegal