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- 1. Multiple Choice
Reconstruction succeeded in its goals of restoring the Union and helping to
regulate the railroads
eliminate the Ku Klux Klan
destroy the Freedmen’s Bureau
repair the war-torn South
- 2. Multiple Choice
The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction was to
prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.
gain control of state legislatures.
restore the Confederacy.
improve conditions for poor whites.
- 3. Multiple Choice
The Fourteenth Amendment was part of a series of laws that
ensured the civil rights of African Americans.
shifted the balance of power in favor of the Supreme Court.
changed the way a President could hire government officials.
restored the balance of power between the President and Congress.
- 4. Multiple Choice
As white southerners regained control of state governments, they began to
refuse to pay war debts.
join the Republican Party.
reverse Reconstruction era reforms.
compensate former slaves.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Reconstruction came to end when
President Johnson was impeached.
federal troops were removed from the South.
the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
the Freedmen’s Bureau was dismantled.
- 6. Multiple Choice
The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in
electing African Americans to southern state governments.
keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office.
redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners.
providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people.
- 7. Multiple Choice
In his presidential Reconstruction plan, Andrew Johnson
put the South under strict military control.
was more generous than Lincoln.
matched Lincoln’s plan exactly.
allowed some slavery to continue.
- 8. Multiple Choice
The goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to
prevent African Americans from voting.
force African Americans to move north.
help former slaves adjust to freedom.
abolish slavery.
- 9. Multiple Choice
A major failure of Reconstruction was that
racist attitudes continued in the North and South.
the South’s cotton production never recovered.
war debts remained unpaid.
no African Americans were voted into Congress.
- 10. Multiple Choice
The Reconstruction Act of 1867
gave voting rights to all Southerners.
closed the South to scalawags.
closed the South to Democrats.
put the South under military rule.
- 11. Multiple Choice
The Radical Republicans passed a series of laws designed to
protect the civil rights of African Americans.
reestablish slavery in a different form.
unfairly tax the South.
prohibit free speech in the South.
- 12. Multiple Choice
The Radical Republicans objected to President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction because they thought it was
too expensive.
a threat to congressional authority.
unfair to former slave owners.
too harsh on the South.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What was the verdict in President Johnson’s impeachment trial?
He escaped conviction by one vote.
He was forced to confess his guilt.
He was removed from office.
He was found guilty.
- 14. Multiple Choice
The Civil War left the South
competition from freedmen.
in full control of its government.
in ruins.
largely unchanged from before the war.
- 15. Multiple Choice
To help black southerners adjust to freedom, Congress created
the captured and Abandoned Property Act.
the Ten Percent Plan.
the Thirteenth Amendment.
the Freedmen’s Bureau.
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