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The federal government set up an agency to work against black codes. This agency was known as
a) The Freedmen’s Bureau.
b) The Carpetbagger Bureau.
c) The Black Code Bureau.
d) The Scalawag Bureau.

The Constitutional Amendment that recognized African Americans as citizens and gave them equal protection under the law was the
a) Bill of Rights.
b) Thirteenth Amendment
c) Fourteenth Amendment
d) Fifteenth Amendment.

How was President Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan different from Congress’s Plan?
a) The President’s Plan tried to make it easier than Congress’s Plan for the South to rejoin the Union
b) Congress’s Plan tried to make it easier than the President’s Plan for the South to rejoin the Union.
c) The President’s Plan did not want the South to rejoin the Union.
d) Congress’s Plan did not want the South to rejoin the Union.

What was the purpose of the Black Codes after the Civil War?
a) to provide services for newly freed African Americans
b) to keep African Americans in an inferior position in society
c) to help the freed slaves have a normal life
d) to take a citizenship test

Which of the following marked the end of Reconstruction in 1877?
a) the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
b) the election of a democratic president
c) the development of sharecropping systems
d) the success of the Freedmen’s Bureau

What was the aim/goal of many Southerners during Reconstruction?
a) to grant the rights to slaves
b) to help build new communities for immigrants
c) to provide 40 acres of land to anyone who was the head of household
d) to return to their normal lives before the war began and not grant rights to freed slaves

A plantation owner usually provided a sharecropper with housing and tools. This was a good arrangement for the plantation owner because
a) the sharecropper usually did not provide these items for himself.
b) these items were left over from the days of slavery.
c) these items were not important in growing crops.
d) the sharecropper did not want these items.

What did the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments mean for African Americans?
a) African Americans were free citizens, and the men could vote.
b) African Americans became citizens.
c) Slavery was abolished.
d) Equal protection could not be denied to any citizen.

What was the goal of Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
a) He wanted to provide a more difficult way for the Southerners to participate in the Union.
b) He wanted to tax 10% of America’s wages.
c) He wanted to avoid offering a pardon to the Southerners even if they pledged loyalty to the Union.
d) He wanted to provide an easy or lenient way for the Southern states to rejoin and participate in the Union.

How did Andrew Johnson aim to humiliate the southern elite land owners when he became President?
a) He made them ask for a pardon in order to acknowledge his power as President.
b) He made them elect him as President for a second term.
c) Landowners didn’t vote for him as President.
d) All of the above are ways Johnson tried to humiliate the landowners.

The Compromise of 1877 gave Democrats control of the southern governments, which soon passed _________ laws, requiring that blacks and whites use separate facilities.
a) registration
b) immigration
c) Jim Crow
d) poll tax

What impact did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln have on the start of the Reconstruction Era?
a) Abraham Lincoln was unable to follow through with his mild Reconstruction plans to let the South rejoin the Union.
b) Abraham Lincoln was unable to follow through with his harsh Reconstruction plans and punish the South for starting the war
c) A new hope was given to the Confederates and the War went on for several more months.
d) The Reconstruction Era began peacefully as the North and South joined together to honor their fallen leader.

After slaves were set free, many of them began ______________ . They rented land from landowners and paid their rent with a portion of their crops.
a) moving to the east
b) going to college
c) sharecropping
d) building new brick homes

What was the aim/goal of Congress for Reconstruction?
a) to ensure the rights and freedoms of freed slaves
b) to ensure that rights and freedoms of freed slaves were denied
c) to teach freed slaves about sharecropping
d) All of the above were Congress’s goals for Reconstruction.

Which of the following items was provided by the sharecropper?
a) farm tools
b) farmland
c) labor (work)
d) housing

Which of the following disenfranchisement tactics did Southern blacks not face when attempting to vote?
a) poll tax
b) picture identification
c) grandfather clause
d) literacy test

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
a) They gave former slaves and poor whites food, clothing, medical care, education, and schools.
b) It protected people from the hostile white environment in the South.
c) It protected people from the hostile white environment in the South.
d) All of the above are purposes of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

Which of the following would likely be a topic at a Freedmen’s Convention in 1865?
a) revising the 20th Amendment
b) purchasing African slaves at low prices
c) women as mayors of small towns
d) acquiring needed job skills

What new act divided the former Confederate states into five military districts and sent federal troops to maintain order?
a) Black Codes
b) Jim Crow Act
c) Reconstruction Act of 1867
d) Reconstruction Act of 1776

The Ku Klux Klan often resorted to violence to accomplish its goal. This violence was usually designed to
a) to use voter fraud to keep African Americans from voting.
b) to prevent freed slaves from the right to an education.
c) to prevent northern carpetbaggers from going to the south.
d) All of the above were goals of the Ku Klux Klan.

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