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Reconstruction
Test Description: Concepts of Reconstruction
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How did Congressional Reconstruction differ from Presidential Reconstruction?
A
It placed the former Confederate states under federal control.
B
It made the Black Codes federal laws.
C
It allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union under easy terms.
D
It redistributed land among freed slaves.
2) The Civil War failed to achieve
A
the reunification of the states
B
the end of slavery
C
the growth of community life for African-Americans
D
the free exercise of equal rights regardless of race
3) Why might the passage of the 15th Amendment have angered women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A
It made slavery legal in the territories.
B
It prevented women from receiving the assistance of the Freedmen's Bureau.
C
It abolished male slavery but retained slavery among women working as domestics.
D
It gave men but not women the right to vote.
4) What is the strongest expression of the significance of the Radical Republicans taking over Reconstruction?
A
They changed the South through military occupation
B
They tried to convict President Johnson.
C
They passed the Tenure of Office Act.
D
They limited the power of the President.
5) Which best represents an example of Southern Democrats opposition to Reconstruction?
A
The 14th Amendment
B
Fugitive Slave laws
C
Emancipation Proclamation
D
Jim Crow laws
6) Reconstruction ended predominantly for what reason?
A
New laws ensured the welfare of freed slaves and a new generation of southern leaders were ready to continue Union politics.
B
The South had been rebuilt and no longer needed to be reconstructed.
C
It was too expensive to continue.
D
As a result of a compromise that gave the Republicans the presidency in return for withdrawing troops from the South.
7) A Northerner who came to the South during Reconstruction and was often there purely to exploit the South's misfortune for personal gain was called what?
A
a copperhead
B
a scalawag
C
a carpetbagger
D
a sharecropper
8) What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?
A
it kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent.
B
it encouraged Northerners to migrate South.
C
it provided for a fair distribution of land among former slaves.
D
it brought investment capital to the South.
9) Which of the following freed all slaves?
A
13th Amendment
B
15th Amendment
C
Civil Rights Act of 1866
D
14th Amendment
10) How were former slaves kept from voting but it still allowed poor whites to vote?
A
Grandfather clause
B
poll taxes
C
literacy tests
D
Jim Crow laws
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