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The Freedmen’s Bureau helped formerly enslaved people find work on plantations, negotiated labor contracts with planters that specified pay and hours, and
a) confiscated Confederate land and distributed it to formerly enslaved people.
b) prosecuted groups such as the Ku Klux Klan that persecuted African Americans.
c) represented formerly enslaved people in Congress.
d) set up special courts to deal with grievances between workers and planters.

The Republican majority in Congress passed the Command of the Army Act and the Tenure of Office Act in order to ensure that
a) General Ulysses S. Grant would accept the Republican nomination for president.
b) President Johnson would enforce the Military Reconstruction Act.
c) Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton would support their plan for Reconstruction.
d) they would be able to override any attempt by President Johnson to veto legislation.

At the end of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in Congress had three main goals: to prevent the leaders of the Confederacy from returning to power, to make the Republican Party a powerful political force in the South, and to
a) create economic opportunities for African Americans.
b) help African Americans achieve political equality.
c) outlaw groups that intimidated and attacked African Americans.
d) provide land for African Americans to farm.

Under his “restoration program,” President Johnson offered to pardon all former citizens of the Confederacy who took an oath of loyalty to the Union, with the exception of former Confederate officers and officials as well as
a) any Confederate citizen with property worth more than $20,000.
b) Confederate soldiers accused of war crimes.
c) formerly enslaved people who had acquired more than 40 acres of land.
d) Southern Democrats who remained in Congress throughout the Civil War.

During Reconstruction, African Americans were able to vote in the South because of the
a) Fifteenth Amendment.
b) Fourteenth Amendment.
c) Freedmen’s Bureau.
d) Military Reconstruction Act.

To get the seed and supplies they needed, African Americans who had become sharecroppers after Reconstruction often had to rely on credit from
a) country stores.
b) crop liens.
c) government agencies.
d) tenant farmers.

After Reconstruction many African Americans were trapped in economic circumstances that severely limited their new freedom by the
a) collapse of Republican state governments.
b) crop-lien system and high interest rates.
c) growth of new industries in the South.
d) withdrawal of federal troops.

Under President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, a Southern state could organize a new state government when
a) 10% of voters in the 1860 election had taken an oath of loyalty to the United States.
b) 50% of its residents had taken a loyalty oath and sworn to uphold U.S. laws.
c) 75% of reparations owed to the federal government by the state had been paid.
d) 100% of enslaved African Americans in the state had been freed.

The chief objectives of the Wade-Davis Bill were to ensure that former Confederate states would remain loyal to the Union and to
a) end slavery forever.
b) punish former slaveholders.
c) rebuild the South.
d) secure African American rights.

In addition to providing support for formerly enslaved workers, the Freedmen’s Bureau made important contributions in the field of
a) education.
b) health care.
c) industrialization.
d) science.

Under the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, before former Confederate states could elect members to Congress, they had to
a) deny rights to Confederate leaders.
b) provide African Americans with jobs.
c) ratify the Fifteenth Amendment.
d) ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

Having won a roughly three-to-one majority in the elections of 1866, congressional Republicans could override any presidential
a) amendment.
b) impeachment.
c) proclamation.
d) veto.

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a) .
b) .
c) .
d) .

The primary charge at President Johnson’s impeachment trial was that he had
a) broken the law by issuing pardons to Confederate leaders.
b) broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act.
c) taken bribes in exchange for appointments to government jobs.
d) violated the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing black codes to stand.

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a) .
b) .
c) .
d) .

Southerners, particularly Democratic Party supporters, referred to Northerners who came to the South at the beginning of Reconstruction as
a) carpetbaggers.
b) radicals.
c) redeemers.
d) scalawags.

Some “scalawags”—white Southerners who worked with the Republicans and supported Reconstruction—were
a) officeholders in Southern state governments.
b) owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain power.
c) schoolteachers who educated both whites and African Americans.
d) wealthy planters who were looking for a way to regain power.

During the 1870s, Republican governments in the Southern states repealed the black codes, rebuilt roads and railways, and established a
a) system of churches
b) system of public schools.
c) transportation system
d) welfare system.

Despite the claims of some Southerners, the Republican Party was able to take power in the South because
a) groups such as the Ku Klux Klan intimidated voters.
b) it had the support of a large number of poor white Southern farmers.
c) Northern Republicans engaged in systematic voting fraud.
d) only newly freed African Americans were allowed to vote.

By 1876, about 40 percent of all African American children, or roughly 600,000 children,
a) attended school.
b) had access to medical care.
c) were employed.
d) worked as sharecroppers.

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