Review: Reconstruction

The Radical Republicans believed that...

• Southerners should be forced to reform.

• Freedmen should not be given equality.

• Southern states reenter Union quickly.

• North should be blamed for the Civil War.

The 13th Amendment...

• abolished slavery.

• granted universal male suffrage.

• guaranteed due process and equal protection.

• granted universal suffrage.

The 14th Amendment...

• abolished slavery.

• granted universal male suffrage.

• guaranteed due process and equal protection.

• granted universal suffrage.

The 15th Amendment...

• abolished slavery.

• granted universal male suffrage.

• guaranteed due process and equal protection.

• granted universal suffrage.

The purpose of the poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause was to...

• deny African-Americans the right to vote.

• ensure all Americans could vote.

• ensure every Southerner received an education.

• extend voting rights to people ages 18+.

Sharecropping was a system designed to...

• ensure African-Americans remained dependent.

• form ties between Northern industries and Southern farms.

• ensure racial equality took hold.

• end racial discrimination.

Jim Crow Laws aimed at...

• created a segregated society.

• preventing African-Americans from voting.

• abolishing slavery.

• creating a system of sharecropping in the South.

President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction sought to...

• allow the Southern states to rejoin the Union quickly.

• ensure African-Americans never achieved their freedom.

• punish the South for starting the war.

• create Jim Crow Laws.

The Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson established...

• segregation was permitted if those facilities were equal in function.

• the principle of judicial review.

• Dred Scott was property and, therefore, could not sue.

• create Jim Crow Laws.

The "Solid South" refers to the period when Southern states...

• consistently voted for democratic candidates.

• were prevented from participating in politics.

• granted African-Americans the right to vote.

• supported abolitionist causes.