WorksheetsChapter 15 - Reconstruction (1865-1877) Study Guide
Total questions: 65
Worksheet time: 52mins
After the Civil War the southern economy was devestated.
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The Freedmen's Bureau was tremendously successful in protecting and assisting former slaves.
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False
President Johnson's plan to restore the Union closely resembled Lincoln's.
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The black churches were the first social institutions the former slaves could control, and they quickly became the crossroads for African American community life.
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The most popular religious denomination among blacks in the postwar South was Baptist.
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Critics of the gold standard tended to be farmers and other debtors.
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Democrats generally favored "hard money" currency.
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False
Rutherford B. Hayes was able to win the 1876 Presidential Election because of the Compromise of 1877.
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This was created to assist the newly freed slaves in acclimating to their new status.
Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the Golden Circle
Congressional Reconstruction
The Freedmen's Bureau
Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 in Ford's Theatre by?
Salmon P. Chase
Edwin Stanton
John Wilkes Booth
Edmund G. Ross
What was a major setback for freedmen trying to obtain their own land during Reconstruction?
There were very few banks in the South to give them loans.
Very little land was available to purchase.
They were allowed to purchase land only in designated areas.
State Law forbid them from owning land.
The Ku Klux Klan's creation was to protect the South from all but ex-confederates.
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The Panic of 1873 triggered a deep economic depression where three million people lost their jobs.
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Many southern state legislatures reacted to the new rights given to the freedmen by
accepting them.
establishing "black codes" to stifle them.
refusing to write new constitutions.
withdrawing their delegations from Washington, D.C. in protest
Due to Reconstruction in the South, this group would travel to the area to fill the vacancies in the state governments for which their own citizens were forbidden.
scalawags
yankees
carpetbaggers
union deserters
During Grant's presidency, Republicans
were hopeful and politically involved.
sought to separate the races.
were tired of corruption and incompetence.
wanted to expand the president's powers.
During Reconstruction, paper money
was favored by all Americans over hard currency.
was called greenbacks.
was the preferred method of repayment for creditors.
was also referred to as sound money.
_______________________ was secretary of war under Johnson until 1867.
Horace Greeley
Hiram Revels
Edwin M. Stanton
Alexander H. Stephens
Reconstruction was the most dramatic social change in this history of the nation.
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The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction was the name of Lincoln's 10 percent plan.
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In 1866, Mississippi spent 1/5 of its budget on what?
artificial limbs.
reconstructing the plantations.
using militia forces to protect white property from newly freed slaves.
political campaigns in an effort to get confederate sympathizers back into congress.
Andrew Johnson who ran along side of Lincoln during the war in a bipartisan effort to show a united front, was a politician from this confederate state?
Arkansas
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Several southerners during the time of Reconstruction attempted to contract their former slaves in an attempt to maintain control of them as a form of modified slavery.
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False
Due to Reconstruction in the South, Carpetbaggers would travel to the area to fill the vacancies in the state governments for which their own citizens were forbidden.
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False
As president, Andrew Johnson
Favored complete legal equality for freedmen and freedwomen.
Worked closely with the Radical Republican Congress.
Was prejudiced and combative.
Wished to elevate wealthy southerners to positions of power in his government.
Radical Republicans in the postwar period wished to punish the South and lift up newly freed men and women.
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Though Grant fought for the Union he did not believe in the equality of the races and he allowed his personal feelings to get in the way of his political obligations.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau sent agents down into the Confederate states to reunite former slaves with their owners in the hope that former owners would be willing to pay more of a salary to laborers whose work ethic they were familiar with.
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False
Black military veterans formed the core of the first generation of African American political leaders in the postwar South.
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False
With each passing year during Reconstruction, African Americans suffered increasing exploitation and abuse.
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False
The Ku Klux Klan’s official creation was to protect the South from all BUT?
Freedmen
Union Soliders
Carpetbaggers
Ex-Confederates
As former slaves were stripped of their own land by the federal government, they had little choice but to revert to being farmworkers under a new system called sharecropping.
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False
The Freedmen’s Bureau was tremendously successful in protecting and assisting former slaves.
True
False
Which answer best explains the fall of the plantation during Reconstruction as a viable economic entity of the South?
Union troops had destroyed many of them during the Civil War.
They were abolished as an institution when the Radicals took over Congress.
Once a state was emancipated, its ready pool of workers disappeared.
Due to the death toll during the war, there were not enough able-bodied men to work the fields once the war had ended.
Immediately after the end of the Civil War, many freedmen sought out lost family members.
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Congressional Reconstruction?
achieved all of its intended goals.
created true racial equality.
was neither truly radical nor truly reconstruction.
dramatically transformed the South.
At the end of Reconstruction?
African Americans and whites were economically equal.
African Americans were in a better position legally and slavery had ended.
There were no changes for African Americans as a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
African Americans and whites were socially equal.
In March of 1865, Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau. This department would assist in all of the following EXCEPT?
Agents being sent down into the Confederate states to reunite former enslaved people with their slave owners in the hope that former owners would be willing to pay more of a salary to laborers whose work ethic they were familiar with.
The Bureau helped former enslaved people reestablish connections with their family member.
The agents provided former enslaved people with medical care, food and clothing, and helped set up schools.
The Bureau sent agents to the South to negotiate labor contracts between blacks and whites.
During the election of 1876, Republicans and Democrats struck a private bargain known as the Compromise of 1877. In exchange for Hayes being elected president, Hayes would in return would remove the last federal troops from the South, letting the state Republican governments there collapse.
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Ulysses S. Grant withdrawing greenbacks from circulation unintentionally caused the Panic of 1873.
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False
Congress passed three crucial laws creating what came to be known as Congressional Reconstruction. All of these acts were a part of the Congressional Reconstruction EXCEPT?
The Command of the Army Act
The Military Reconstruction Act
The Tenure of Office Act
The Radical Ratification Act
The Fourteenth Amendment forbid states from denying any male citizen the right to vote on the grounds of “race, color or previous condition of servitude.”
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False
Redeemers were white republicans in the south who sought to reunify former enslaved individuals with their family members who were sold off during slave auctions.
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False
The Fifteenth Amendment freed the enslaved people.
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False
In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans promised to withdraw federal troops from Louisiana and South Carolina.
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False
Which of the following was a requirement the Confederacy had to meet complete to be readmitted to the Union?
10% of each states population had to take an oath to the Union and prohibit slavery in their new state constitutions.
10% of all former slaves had to agree to admit the southern state they were born in the right to rejoin the Union
10% of a each states population had to agree to amnesty & create a new state constitution that allowed for the adoption of slavery.
12% of each states population had to take an oath to the Confederacy and prohibit slavery in their new state constitutions.
Who was Abraham's Lincoln's vice president that took control of the White House AFTER Lincoln's assassination?
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
John Brown
The OVERALL PURPOSE of the Reconstruction ERA (1865-1877) was to....
Readmit the border states into the Confederate States of America
Prohibit discrimination among African Americans in the north and south
Rebuild a broken southern economy by abolishing slavery and transitioning African Americans into a free society
Readmit southern states without any punishments, conditions, or limitations on their state laws
A result of the Compromise of 1877 was:
Reconstruction came to end
southern states received federal aid
Southern states passed "Jim Crow" laws
all of these
As Reconstruction began, what problem did southerners face?
Homes, farms, and towns destroyed
Business failures and high unemployment
High inflation made currency worthless
all of these
