Reconstruction Era

Front

Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan included which of these?

Back

Southern states could form a government once one-tenth of its voters took a loyalty oath.

Answer explanation

Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan proposed that Southern states could form a government once one-tenth of its voters took a loyalty oath

Front

Which U.S. president began the era known as Presidential Reconstruction?

Back

Andrew Johnson

Answer explanation

Johnson began the era known as Presidential Reconstruction

Front

What were the laws that Southern governments enacted after the Civil War to restrict the economic freedom of African Americans?

Back

Black Codes

Answer explanation

Black codes were the laws that Southern governments enacted after the Civil War to restrict the economic freedom of Black Americans and to ensure that white supremacy was maintained.

Front

How did the Fourteenth Amendment change relations between the federal and state governments in the United States?

Back

It shifted the protection of citizens’ rights from the states to the federal government.

Answer explanation

The Fourteenth Amendment, which took effect in 1868, changed relations between the federal and state governments in the United States by shifting the protection of citizens’ rights from the states to the federal government

Front

Which political party controlled the governments of nearly all the former Confederate states when they were readmitted to the Union?

Back

Republican Party

Answer explanation

The Republican Party controlled the governments of nearly all the former Confederate states when they were readmitted to the Union

Front

Which term describes Southern whites who supported Radical Reconstruction? Options: Scalawags, New Southerners, Carpetbaggers, Freedmen

Back

Scalawags

Answer explanation

Scalawags was an expressing term for Southern whites who supported Radical Reconstruction.

Front

Who made up the great majority of Republican voters in the Southern states during Reconstruction?

Back

African Americans

Answer explanation

African Americans made up the great majority of Republican voters in the Southern states during Reconstruction.

Front

Which of these was not an accomplishment of Reconstruction governments?

• establishing the South’s first state-funded public school systems
• outlawing racial discrimination in public transportation and accommodations
• securing land grants for formerly enslaved people
• making taxation more equitable

Back

securing land grants for formerly enslaved people

Front

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution barred states from restricting the right to vote based on race? Options: Sixteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Thirteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment

Back

Fifteenth Amendment

Front

Which of these was not among the terms of the “bargain” that resolved the disputed U.S. presidential election of 1876?

• All carpetbaggers were expelled from the Southern states.
• Rutherford B. Hayes became President
• The president recognized Democratic control of the Southern states that still had Republican governments.
• Federal Troops were withdrawn from the South

Back

All carpetbaggers were expelled from the Southern states.

Answer explanation

The terms of the “bargain” that resolved the disputed U.S. presidential election of 1876 included Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president, federal troops being withdrawn from the South, and the president recognizing Democratic control of the Southern states that still had Republican governments. The “bargain” did not include the expulsion of all carpetbaggers from the Southern states.