Unit 11 CFA PRactice

Read the excerpt from one of the Enforcement Acts enacted during Reconstruction. Then answer the question that follows.

Two or more persons . . . conspir[ing] together . . . with intent to deny to any citizen of the United States the due and equal protection of the laws, or by force, intimidation, or threat to prevent any citizen of the United States lawfully entitled to vote from [voting] . . . shall be deemed guilty of a high crime.

Which group's actions led to the creation of these laws?

• the Populists

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• the Radical Republicans

What was the goal of Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

• to punish the South for its role in the Civil War

• to prevent future secession by restricting states' rights

• to readmit former Confederate states to the Union as quickly as possible

• to allow the federal government to take control of Southern agricultural land

In Georgia, the ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments resulted in

• the founding of African American state universities and colleges.

• the reduction of funding for the Freedmen's Bureau from the state budget.

• the election of African Americans to serve in public office throughout the state.

• the collapse of the Georgia Republican Party and the ousting of its elected officials.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the federal government's response to

• popular opposition to the draft.

• Black Codes (laws oppressing African Americans) enacted in the South.

• Republican control of Southern state governments.

• the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Which of the following were goals of the Freedmen's Bureau? Pick 3.

• restoring the pre–Civil War social order in the South

• ensuring Democratic control of Southern politics

• expanding educational opportunities in the South

• providing food and shelter to displaced Southerners

• assisting African Americans in voting and practicing their rights

Which of the following were goals of the Ku Klux Klan? Pick 3.

• restoring the pre–Civil War social order in the South

• ensuring Democratic control of Southern politics

• expanding educational opportunities in the South

• preventing African Americans from exercising their rights

• providing food and shelter to displaced Southerners

How did white legislators justify their removal of duly-elected African American legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction?

• They claimed that recent election results were caused by voter fraud.

• They claimed that African Americans had the right to vote but not to hold office.

• They claimed that African Americans were US citizens but not citizens of Georgia.

• They claimed that recent election results were caused by unconstitutional redistricting.

What was the goal of expelling African American legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction?

• to gain the support of Radical Republicans

• to convince the federal government to give Georgia aid

• to maintain white supremacy in state politics

• to bring an end to Georgia's county-unit electoral system

The use of sharecropping during Reconstruction allowed landowners in Georgia to

• become leading producers of gold.

• resume the mass production of cotton.

• consolidate land into larger plantations

• transition to the production of finished goods.

Which of the following are characteristics of sharecropping? Pick 3.

• Laborers worked for landowners in exchange for land to farm.

• Laborers usually owned the equipment they used.

• Laborers provided a share of their crop to the landowner.

• Laborers had no say in what crops they raised.