Practice Quiz - Reconstruction
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- Q1What housed schools, hosted social events and political gatherings, and were the center of many African American communities?churchestown hallsgovernment buildingsplantations30sEditDelete
- Q2During the 1870s, Reconstruction governments in the South built a comprehensive publichospital system.welfare system.school system.transportation system.30sEditDelete
- Q3The outcome of the election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president is known ascarpetbagging.debt peonage.the Compromise of 1877.the Panic of 1873.30sEditDelete
- Q4Who did the Republican convention unanimously nominate for president in 1868?Ulysses S. GrantEdwin M. StantonAndrew JohnsonRobert E. Lee30sEditDelete
- Q5The Military Reconstruction Act divided the former Confederacy, except for Tennessee, into fivecongressional districts.military districts.states.Reconstruction zones.30sEditDelete
- Q6Fearing that the Civil Rights Act might be overturned in court, the Republicans introduced theThirteenth Amendment.Fifteenth Amendment.Fourteenth Amendment.black codes.30sEditDelete
- Q7The overwhelming victory by the Republicans in the congressional elections of 1866 meant they were strong enough to override any presidentialimpeachment.veto.proclamation.amendment.30sEditDelete
- Q8Hundreds of formerly enslaved people served as delegates to state constitutionalconventions.offices.seminars.rallies.30sEditDelete
- Q9When the powerful banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company was forced to declare bankruptcy, the nation’s financial community felt a wave of fear called thePanic of 1873.Compromise of 1877.Scandal of 1873.Scandal of 1877.30sEditDelete
- Q10For many African Americans, the end of Reconstruction meant a return to the“Old South.”North.“New South.”institution of slavery.30sEditDelete
- Q11Secretary of War who agreed with congressional RepublicansRutherford B. HayesEdwin M. StantonUS GrantHorace Greeley30sEditDelete
- Q12laws that severely limited African Americans’ rights in the Southblack codesFifteenth AmendmentFourteenth AmendmentTenure of Office Act30sEditDelete
- Q13guaranteed African Americans males the right to voteblack codesFourteenth AmendmentTenure of Office ActFifteenth Amendment30sEditDelete
- Q14granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native AmericansFourteenth AmendmentTenure of Office Actblack codesFifteenth Amendment30sEditDelete
- Q15required Senate approval to remove any government official whose appointment required the Senate’s consentblack codesFifteenth AmendmentTenure of Office ActFourteenth Amendment30sEditDelete
- Q16passed by Congress to combat the violence in the SouthgraftscalawagsEnforcement ActsBlack Republicanism30sEditDelete
- Q17gaining money illegally through politicsgraftBlack RepublicanismEnforcement Actscarpetbaggers30sEditDelete
- Q18Northerners who moved to the SouthgraftscalawagscarpetbaggersBlack Republicanism30sEditDelete
- Q19white Southerners who worked with the Republicans and supported ReconstructionBlack Republicanismgraftcarpetbaggersscalawags30sEditDelete
- Q20influential newspaper publisheryankeeUS GrantJames TildenHorace Greeley30sEditDelete