Reconstruction Test

1. Under the_____________ system, which embraced most of the South's black and white poor, a landowner dictated the crop and provided the worker with a place to live as well as seeds and tools in return for a share of the harvested crop.

• segregation
• integration
• Reconstruction
• sharecropping
• 14th amendment

2. In the 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson the court legalized and condoned _____________ of races in public places. They claimed that having separate facilities for black and white people was permitted so long as they were equal in stature.

• “lost cause” myth
• segregation
• integration
• white supremacy
• 14th amendment

3. A few of the most radical white Republicans during this time suggested _____________ --- combining black and white schools together and mixing the races.

• segregation
• integration
• Reconstruction
• 15th amendment
• sharecropping

4. Many southern white people resented what they felt was the invasion of opportunists, come to make their fortunes from the South's misfortune. Southerners labeled these newcomers "_______________” after the inexpensive cloth suitcases often carried by northerners as they moved down south.

• white supremacy
• Redeemers
• disenfranchise
• 14th amendment
• carpetbaggers

5. In 1867, in order to limit the power of President Johnson, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act requiring Johnson to receive Congressional approval before removing a member of his Cabinet from office. Johnson ignored this and fired his Secretary of War. As a result, the House of Representatives drew up articles of _______________ against Johnson. Congress formally charged the President with violating the Tenure of Office Act.

• Reconstruction
• 15th amendment
• impeach
• disenfranchise
• 14th amendment

6. During the Era of _____________ (1865-1877), the federal government struggled with how to return the eleven southern states to the Union, rebuild the South's ruined economy, and promote the right of former slaves.

• segregation
• integration
• Reconstruction
• sharecropping
• Redeemers

7. In response to many of the newly acquired rights for freedmen, Southern Redeemers sought to _______________ black voters or deny them their right to vote by instituting poll taxes and literacy tests as requirements to vote.

• segregation
• sharecropping
• white supremacy
• disenfranchise
• 14th amendment

8. To protect freedmen's rights from presidential vetoes, southern state legislatures, and federal court decisions, Congress passed the ______________ to the Constitution. It guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens.

• segregation
• integration
• 15th amendment
• 14th amendment
• carpetbaggers

9. Following the war, many white Southern Democrats became known as _________________ as they wanted to take back southern governments and redeem the south in the name of white supremacy.

• “lost cause” myth
• segregation
• white supremacy
• Redeemers
• carpetbaggers

10. In 1869, Congress passed the __________________to the Constitution, forbidding any state from denying the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• “lost cause” myth
• Reconstruction
• 15th amendment
• 14th amendment
• carpetbaggers