Reconstruction Review Question Preview (ID: 16902)

a) The South had been rebuilt and no longer needed to be reconstructed

b) New laws ensured the welfare of freed slaves and a new generation of southern leaders were ready to continue Union policies

c) Reconstruction was too expensive to continue

d) As the result of a political compromise

a) black codes

b) poll taxes

c) literacy tests

d) The Freedman's Bureau

a) Andrew Johnson

b) Thaddeus Stevens

c) the Radical republicans

d) Edwin Stanton

a) scalawags

b) carpertbaggers

c) Jim Crow Laws

d) the policies of Radical Republicans

a) His plan for southern reconstruction was considered too radical and harmful to the South?

b) He was accused by some of helping to plot Lincoln's assassination.

c) Because he was from Tennessee, he had supported the South during the Civil War.

d) He was accused of violating the Tenure of Office Act and many Republicans in Congress wanted him removed from office.

a) They set guidelines that southern states had to follow to be readmitted to the Union and laid out a timetable.

b) Freed slaves throughout the US, gave rights of Citizenship, and guaranteed African Americans the right to vote.

c) Established the Freedman's Bureau, freed slaves, and ensured African Americans a right to public education

d) They outlawed segregation, established black codes and ended Reconstruction.

a) Slave and free states had equal representation in Congress

b) Southern states were readmitted upon recognition of the civil rights of African Americans

c) Republican Rutherford Hayes became president in exchange for the removal of Federal troops

d) In exchange for use of Southern Ports the North would significantly lower the tariff

a) Whiskey Ring and Credit Mobilier

b) Teapot dome

c) Watergate

d) Compromise of 1877

a) Jim Crow Laws

b) Slave Codes

c) Slavery

d) Sharecropping

a) Andrew Johnson

b) Thaddeaus Stevens

c) Henry David Thoreau

d) Edwin Stanton