Reconstruction Era - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

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The purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau was to

Provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.

Gain the vote for millions of former slaves.

Provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

Get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.

2.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

In American history, the term “Reconstruction” refers to

Problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy.

The admission to Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.

Federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves.

The establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on industrial machinery.

3.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified following which war?

Civil War

Vietnam War

World War II

American Revolution.

4.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which of these is the BEST example of Federal assistance to freed slaves following the Civil War?

Wade-Davis Bill

The White League

Freedman’s Bureau

Thirteenth Amendment.

5.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew the last federal troops form the capitals of the Reconstruction states. Which of these was an effect of this decision?

President Hayes was impeached by Congress and removed from office.

Support from the southern states help him win the re-election in 1881.

More African-American politicians were elected to seats in the U.S. Congress.

Subversive groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Redeemers regained control of politics in the southern states.

6.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which President saw the end of the Reconstruction Era?

Andrew Johnson

John Tilden

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

7.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

The “Compromise of 1877” regarding the election dispute between Hayes and Tilden is BEST characterized by which of these facts?

Hayes was accepted as President and he appointed a Democrat to be his Vice President.

The Democrats accepted Hayes in exchange for getting able to appoint the next Supreme Court Justice.

The compromise failed and in a bitterly fought battle the House of Representatives elected Hayes as President.

Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn from the South and voting rights for the freedmen decided by state governments.

8.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Andrew Johnson was impeached because

Southern States did not trust him.

He removed a member of his cabinet.

Democrats considered him a traitor.

He violated the Civil Rights Act of 1865.

9.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

With which era of American history is this image MOST closely associated?

Prohibition era

The Civil War era

Abolition era

Reconstruction era

10.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which act denied the President the power to remove from office anyone who had been appointed by a past President without the advice and consent of the Senate?

The Hatch Act

The War Powers Act

The Glass-Segall Act

The Tenure of Office Act

11.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes

Protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.

Forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.

Were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.

Were laws pass by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.

12.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which of these would have been a goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the south during Reconstruction?

Making sure Reconstruction were smoothly

Assisting the scalawags and carpetbaggers

Ensuring that freedmen had the right to vote

Restoring southern Democrats to political power.

13.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What was the effect of the use of literacy tests throughout the South after the U.S. Civil War?

Women were denied the right to vote.

An increase in voter turnout by African Americans.

The poor and African Americans not being allowed to vote.

An increase in the power of the Republican Party in the South.

14.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Why did tenant farming become a dominant form of agriculture in the 1870s?

Many Confederate prisoners were available for such work.

The government offered landowners incentives to hire them.

Masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners.

People flocked to the South for jobs following the Civil War.

15.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which statement regarding the era of Reconstruction is FALSE?

The 13^th Amendment outlawed slavery in all American states

State laws and customs upheld the constitutional amendments

The 14^th Amendment made African-Americans citizens of the U.S.

Federal law was changed to abolish slavery in states where it still existed.

16.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which statement MOST ACCURATELY describes the political situation of African-Americans in the period of Reconstruction?

African-Americans still had not won the rights to vote by 1977.

African-Americans had political rights in the North, not the South.

African-Americans were represented in state assemblies, but on the national level.

African-Americans won Congressional and state legislative representation from Southern States.

17.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What group was created in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the purpose of preventing both programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

Ku Klux Klan

Freeman’s Bureau

Know Nothing Party

White Citizens Council

18.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

When it was created, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution ensured rights for

Women.

Children.

Native Americans.

African Americans.

19.

Multiple Choice

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1 pt

Which is the BEST description of the status of race relations in the South in the years following Reconstruction?

Following Reconstruction, African-Americans suffered through a resurgence of racial discrimination, terrorism, lynchings, and violence.

Following Reconstruction, African-Americans experienced increased levels of freedom, civil rights and economic and political opportunities.

Following Reconstruction, African-Americans enjoyed economic, political, and social opportunities equal to that of their white counterparts.

Following Reconstruction, race relations between white and African-American populations were closely supervised and monitored by the Union Army.

20.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Following the American Civil War, northern cities saw an increase in population thanks in part to

An increase in Asian immigrants.

Soldiers returning home from Europe.

The flight of former slaves from the south.

The migration of former Confederate soldiers.

21.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Which Amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

13^th Amendment

14^th Amendment

15^th Amendment

16^th Amendment

22.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

A Confederacy actor who was angry over the Southern loss of the Civil War, and assassinated Abraham Lincoln at the Ford’s Theater in Washington

Lee Harvey Oswald

John Wilkes Booth

James Earl Ray

Harry S Truman

23.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Hayes agreed to support internal improvements for the South, and appoints a Southerner to the Cabinet and withdrew federal troops from the South.

Compromise of 1877

Ten Percent Plan

Wade-Davis Bill

Presidential Election of 1876

24.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

When the President breaks a federal law, and is put on trial in the Senate. If found guilty they can be removed from office.

Reconstruction

Impeachment

Congressional Reconstruction

Presidential Reconstruction

25.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Radical Republican plan for reconstruction that gained popularity after the election of 1866.

Congressional Reconstruction

Wade-Davis Bill

Presidential Reconstruction

Ten Percent Plan

26.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

The Republican who ran against Samuel J. Tilden and was awarded the election along straight party lines.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Ulysses S Grant

Andrew Johnson

Abraham Lincoln

27.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Lincoln’s plan for reconstructing the South. States had to complete three tasks before they could rejoin the Union.

Congressional Reconstruction

Wade-Davis Bill

Ten Percent Plan

Presidential Reconstruction

28.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

After Lincoln’s death, this was the continuation of his plan for reconstructing the South.

Congressional Reconstruction

Ten Percent Plan

Wade-Davis Bill

Presidential Reconstruction

29.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Chosen by President Abraham Lincoln to be Vice President for his Second Term in office, and after Lincoln’s assassination he became the President of the United States

Samuel Tilden

Ulysses S Grant

Andrew Johnson

Rutherford B. Hayes

30.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Required 50% of the voters of a southern state to swear their loyalty to the United States

Congressional Reconstruction

Wade-Davis Bill

Ten Percent Plan

Presidential Reconstruction

31.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

States that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

16th Amendment

32.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

Declares that all people born or naturalized to the United States are citizens, including former slaves

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

16th Amendment

33.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

This states that the rights of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude

13th Amendment

14th Amendment

15th Amendment

16th Amendment

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