Question 1

Who took over as President of the United States after President Lincoln was assassinated?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

Answer

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer

Andrew Jackson

Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 2

Which of the following was NOT a challenge for the South during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

capturing John Wilkes Booth

Answer

rebuilding cities and towns

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finding a new system of labor

Question 3

What period of time was known as the Reconstruction Era?

Accepted Answer

1865 to 1877

Answer

1870 to 1880

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1864 to 1875

Question 4

What were black codes?

Accepted Answer

laws that limited the freedoms of African Americans

Answer

land agreements for the Freedman's Bureau

Answer

work contracts for African Americans

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT part of the Freemen's Bureau?

Accepted Answer

arresting former slave owners

Answer

building churches and schools for African Americans

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helping freedmen locate their families

Question 6

What group of people made up the Klu Klux Klan?

Accepted Answer

White Southern Democrats

Answer

<P>Scalawags</P>

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Freedmen's Bureau Officers

Answer

Carpetbaggers

Question 7

Who won the election of 1868?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer

Andrew Jackson

Answer

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer

Andrew Johnson

Question 8

What group in Congress wanted the federal government to play an active role in remaking Southern politics and society?

Accepted Answer

Radical Republicans

Answer

Carpetbaggers

Answer

<P>Scalawags</P>

Question 9

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1868 establish?

Accepted Answer

All persons born in the United States were citizens (except Native Americans).

Answer

Slavery was abolished in the whole of the United States.

Answer

All male citizens have the right to vote.

Question 10

What did the 14th Amendment establish?

Accepted Answer

All persons born in the United States were citizens and had the same rights.

Answer

All male citizens have the right to vote.

Answer

Slavery was abolished in all of the United States.

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT part of the Reconstruction Acts of 1897?

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping and the contract system in the South was abolished.

Answer

Southern governments had to give all male citizens the right to vote, including African Americans.

Answer

Southern states must ratify the 14th Amendment.

Question 12

Which of the following groups did NOT help build schools for the freedmen in the South?

Accepted Answer

white Southern organizations

Answer

Northern missionary groups

Answer

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 13

Why did most African Americans end up receiving no land during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Southern land owners were pardoned and got back their land

Answer

There was not enough land to be evenly distributed

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Most African Americans did not want land

Question 14

What was one reason the contract system was an improvement over slavery?

Accepted Answer

Workers could choose where and who to work for

Answer

Workers were not abused by their employers

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Workers could not be cheated out of their salary or benefits by their employers

Question 15

Why did poor African Americans and whites work in the sharecropping system?

Accepted Answer

It gave them land for their families

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They could grow all their own food and sell it in the markets

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They were able to buy the land after 5 years of good harvests

Question 16

What was the main reason the South faced many years of poverty following the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Their reliance on cotton

Answer

The destruction of railroads

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Not enough factories to produce farming equipment

Question 17

What was the main goal of the Klu Klux Klan?

Accepted Answer

To limit the power and freedoms of African Americans

Answer

To set up schools and churches for African Americans

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To improve the contract and sharecropping system of the South

Question 18

What did the 15th Amendment establish?

Accepted Answer

All male citizens had the right to vote (besides Native Americans)

Answer

All white women had the right to vote

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Slavery was abolished in the United States

Question 19

What is a suffragist?

Accepted Answer

Someone who fights for the right to vote

Answer

Someone who works for the Freemen Bureau

Answer

Someone who fights against the Klu Klux Klan

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT a problem Grant faced in his second term as president?

Accepted Answer

Southern governments rebelled against the military districts

Answer

The Panic of 1873

Answer

Some of his advisors took bribes while in office

Question 21

What caused the Panic of 1873?

Accepted Answer

Banks had to close because of bad loans.

Answer

Sharecropping led to extreme poverty in the deep South

Answer

Railroads shut down because of labor strikes

Question 22

What was the significance of the Supreme Court cases US v. Cruikshank and US v. Reese?

Accepted Answer

They restricted the right to vote

Answer

They made African Americans work in the sharecropping system.

Answer

They created more violence in the Klu Klux Klan.

Question 23

How did poll taxes and literacy test limit the power and freedom of African Americans?

Accepted Answer

They restricted the right to vote

Answer

They made African Americans work in the sharecropping system

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They created more violence from the Klu Klux Klan

Question 24

What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

Accepted Answer

The Republicans won the election with Hayes and agreed to take away federal troops in the South.

Answer

The Democrats won the election with Tilden and agreed to give each freedmen 40 acres and a mule

Answer

The Democrats won the election with Tilden and agreed to do away with the electoral college.

Question 25

How did the Compromise of 1877 put an end to the Reconstruction Era?

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction governments in the South collapsed and Democrats returned to power.

Answer

Slavery was made legal again in the southern states when Tilden became president

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Federal funding for the southern industry created a strong economy

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