
Reconstruction
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- Q1Laws that kept African Americans from achieving full citizenship were known asThe Freedmen's codeThe 14th AmendmentThe 13th AmendmentThe black codes30s
- Q2The law that said freedmen were full citizens with the same rights as whites was known asThe Civil Rights AmendmentThe Civil Rights Act of 1866The Freedmen's Act of 1866The 13th Amendment30s
- Q3How did African American officeholders help African Americans achieve full citizenship?They increased freedmen's representation in the new government.They outlawed reconstruction.They abolished slavery.They passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866.30s
- Q4Which act made it illegal to prevent another person from voting by bribery, force, or intimidation?The Black Codes ActThe Civil Rights ActThe Enforcement ActThe Military Reconstruction Act30s
- Q5The Jim Crow lawssegregated democrats from republicanssegregated blacks and whitessegregated northerners and southernerssegregated poor from the wealthy30s
- Q6This amendment abolished slaveryThe 13thThe 16thThe 14thThe 15th30s
- Q7The act that declared new state governments in the former Confederacy had to be elected by both blacks and whites was calledThe Civil Rights ActThe Military Reconstruction ActThe Jim Crow Law ActThe Enforcement Act30s
- Q8The Fifteenth Amendment protectedthe right of women to votethe right of former Confederate officers to votethe right of black women to votethe right of African American males to vote30s
- Q9Who led the South under President Johnson's Reconstruction plan?black Republicansfederal troopsWealthy white planterscarpetbaggers and scalawags30s
- Q10Under Congressional Reconstruction, political power in the South shifted toformer slaves and whites who had been loyal to the United Statesformer Confederated leaderswhite southern Democratsthe Ku Klux Klan30s
- Q11During southern Reconstruction, blacks and whites in the Southhad to pay for children's schoolingwere granted equal rights.were taxed into povertywere segregated in public places30s
- Q12Under Southern Reconstruction, new state constitutionsdenied blacks, the right to vote and segregated schools.guaranteed the right to vote to every adult male but left blacks imprisoned for their debtsguaranteed the right to vote to every adult male, ended imprisonment for debt, and called for the establishment of public schools in the South.established new schools in the North for the children of freed black slaves and guaranteed the right to vote for all men and women.30s
- Q13The secret society formed to drive African Americans out of political life was known asThe Klan of Northern Republicansthe Ku Klux KlanThe Klan of Southern DemocratesThe Jim Crow Klan30s
- Q14A poll tax was enforced during the reversal of Reconstruction in order tokeep African Americans from being able to vote.raise money for the war torn South.keep carpetbaggers from being able to vote.give more money to the Republican party.30s
- Q15Which statement is not true of the Compromise of 1877?It began with a disputed electionIt marked the end of ReconstructionIt made Rutherford B Hayes presidentIt sent more federal troops to the South30s