U.S. History Quiz #4

All of the following groups of people would have likely disagreed with the Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson EXCEPT-

• Radical Republicans that wanted to grant more freedoms and rights to freed slaves.

• African Americans freed at the conclusion of the Civil War.

• Southern Democrats that wanted to continue to disenfranchise the freed slaves.

True or False, an economic depression called the Panic of 1873 was a key factor that led to the end to Reconstruction.

• True

• False

According to Abram Colby, the KKK was made up of all of the following groups of people EXCEPT-

• farmers

• teachers

• doctors

What were passed by many Southern State Legislatures following the Civil War to keep African Americans in a condition similar to slavery?

• Black Codes

• Carpetbaggers

• Sharecroppers

Which Constitutional Amendment granted suffrage to African American males?

• Fifteenth

• Fourteenth

• Thirteenth

Which derogatory term was used to describe Northern Republicans that travelled to the South for their own benefit?

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Sharecroppers

As part of the Compromise of 1877, which U.S. president was elected and agreed to remove troops from the southern states that had been occupied under Military Reconstruction?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Andrew Johnson

All of the following were concerns of many white Southerners by 1867 EXCEPT-

• military rule by federal troops

• whites being removed from government seats

• plantation owners unable to reclaim their property

In 1873, widespread corruption in the South Carolina's legislature led to all of the following EXCEPT-

• rise in anti-black feelings in the North

• many Americans began to re-evaluate their feelings about Reconstruction.

• widespread demand for increased minority representation in state legislatures.

The legacy of Reconstruction by the early 20th century includes all of the following EXCEPT-

• segregation had become the law of the land.

• lynching of African Americans had become an epidemic.

• schools for African Americans were permanently closed.