WorksheetsCh 17 RMQ - Reconstructing the Union
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Abraham Lincoln believed that a generous peace settlement would
ensure that Great Britain did not recognize the Confederacy.
eliminate northern Democrats’ opposition to Republican policies.
finally destroy the Whig party and guarantee Republican power.
help the development of the Republican party in the South.
to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America
Radical Republicans believed that
Congress should set the conditions for restoring the Confederate states to the Union.
the president had the authority to determine when the rebellious states could rejoin the Union.
the best way to restore the South was to allow the planter elite to remain in power.
Reconstruction was a political issue and the southern states need not be concerned with social matters.
The central difference between Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans concerned
how to get the southerners to admit that they had lost the war.
the nature of the loyalty oath administered to former Confederates.
whether Johnson was really a Republican or a Democrat.
the place of African-Americans in American society.
Regarding education
white southerners recognized the importance of education and encouraged the growth of black schools.
former slaves did not realize the value of education and did not send their children to school.
African-Americans placed a high value on learning, both for themselves and for their children.
economic conditions prevented African-Americans from sending their children to school.
By the end of Reconstruction, white planters had developed a way of life based on all of the following EXCEPT
paternalism.
white supremacy.
sharecropping.
segregation.
The Panic of 1873
allowed the Republicans to regain control of Congress in 1874.
increased northern fatigue with Reconstruction.
was eased by the creation of the Third National Bank.
allowed the South to decrease the North’s industrial advantage.
The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to
keep former slaves from finding jobs.
force all African-Americans to leave the South.
help Republican candidates win elections.
destroy the Republican party in the South.
The election of 1876 was disputed because
of contested returns in the three southern states still controlled by Republicans.
a third-party candidate forced the election to go to the House of Representatives.
southern electors refused to cast their votes for either the Republican or the Democratic candidate.
several northern states refused to allow the names of Democratic candidates to appear on the ballot.
The 1866–67 shift in the Republican Party from moderate to radical occurred because
moderates realized by 1866 that the president seemed intent on undermining any Reconstruction policy that included civil rights for blacks.
Johnson undertook an extensive campaign tour in 1866 during which he maligned the reputations of all Republican congressmen.
Johnson’s plan made it possible for the antebellum southern political leadership to return to their seats in local and national legislatures.
all answers are correct
1. Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His action prompted Congress to propose
the impeachment of the president.
the Civil Rights Act of 1867.
emergency funding for the Freedmen’s Bureau.
the Fourteenth Amendment.
After the Civil War, the sharecropping system emerged in the South primarily as a way to
diversify agricultural production
provide a labor supply to plantation owners
give forty acres of land to freedmen
give forty acres of land to freedmen (4) guarantee economic equality for African Americans
Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of
the 14th and 15th amendments
the Freedmen’s Bureau
Black Codes
tenant farming and sharecropping
Which statement best describes the status of African Americans immediately after the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
Most African Americans held factory jobs in urban areas
Despite the passage of several constitutional amendments, African Americans found that gaining equal rights was very difficult.
Most African Americans were able to take advantage of educational opportunities at colleges.
Political rights for African Americans were guaranteed in the South, but restrictions and discrimination increased in the North
