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Reconstruction - Chapter 17
Test Description: Multiple Choice questions about the Reconstruction Era
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) During the Reconstruction Era, the 15th Amendment was adopted to grant African Americans
A
economic equality
B
freedom of speech
C
voting rights
D
educational opportunities
2) Beginning in the late 1800s, poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used to
A
improve public education
B
prevent African Americans from voting
C
protect important civil rights
D
restrict immigration
3) What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?
A
It provided for a fairer distribution of farm profits
B
It encouraged Northerners to migrate south
C
It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent
D
It brought investment captial to the South
4) The separate but equal principle established by the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson led to the
A
integration of white and African American military regiments
B
spread of racially segregated public facilities
C
end of the Reconstruction period
D
start of the Civil War
5) During Reconstruction, President Andrew Johnson tried to incorporate most of President Abraham Lincoln\\\'s plan for
A
punishing the secessionist states
B
granting suffrage to former slaves
C
readmitting the Southern States into the Union
D
increasing the power of the North over the South
6) Which statement most accurately describes President Abraham Lincolns plan for Reconstruction?
A
The Union should be restored as quickly as possible
B
War damages should be collected through military occupation
C
African Americans should be given free land
D
Southerners should be made to pay for their rebellion.
7) The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were added to the Constitution during the Reconstruction period to
A
bring an end to the Civil War
B
limit the powers of the president
C
grant legal rights to African Americans
D
improve the operation of the electoral college
8) Following Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of
A
Black Codes
B
the Freedmen\\\'s Bureau
C
tenant farming and sharecropping
D
the 14th and 15th amendments
9) What is the first step in the impeachment process for removing a president from office?
A
replacing the president with the vice president
B
holding a hearing before the full Senate
C
bringing charges against the president by the House of Representatives
D
conducting a trial by the Supreme Court
10) During the Reconstruction Era, one reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was to
A
encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe
B
support the South during the Civil War
C
prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights.
D
eliminate sharecropping in the Southern States
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