Deck 15: Reconstruction

Question 1

According to the video in the introduction,the period from 1865 to 1877 is referred to as __________.

A) Redemption
B) Peace Policy
C) Reconstruction
D) The Birth of a Nation

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

Under the Radical Republicans,the Confederate states were placed under the administration of the __________ until each state wrote a new constitution.

A) military
B) president
C) Senate
D) Supreme Court

Answer 2

military

Question 3

Which of the following would most likely defend the Black Codes?

A) Radical Republicans
B) African Americans
C) Southern states
D) Northern states

Answer 3

Southern states

Question 4

Which of the following did Ulysses Grant support?

A) Inflation Bill
B) Peace Policy
C) Ku Klux Klan
D) the Confederacy

Question 5

Who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

A) John Wilkes Booth
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Ulysses Grant
D) William Seward

Question 6

The Thirteenth,Fourteenth,and Fifteenth Amendments are collectively referred to as the __________ amendments.

A) Reconstruction
B) Republican
C) Radical
D) Jim Crow

Question 7

According to the introductory video in section 15.2,the Black Codes passed by Southern states after the Civil War __________.

A) prohibited African Americans from suing and giving testimony in court
B) compensated African Americans for the years they had served in slavery
C) recognized the legal validity of marriages among African Americans
D) reaffirmed the legal status of African Americans as property

Question 8

At Little Bighorn River in Montana in 1876,the Sioux defeated the U.S.federal cavalry led by __________.

A) Thaddeus Stevens
B) Phil Sheridan
C) Matthew Gaines
D) George Custer

Question 9

What did Jay Gould and Jim Fisk share in common?

A) Both conspired to control the nation's gold supply.
B) Both conspired to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
C) Both were African American state senators.
D) Both were founding members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 10

Who was impeached by the House of Representatives?

A) Andrew Johnson
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Ulysses Grant
D) Thaddeus Stevens

Question 11

Which of the following was proposed by Congress to deal with the financial panic that broke out in 1873?

A) Ku Klux Klan Act
B) Peace Policy
C) Inflation Bill
D) Reconstruction Amendments

Question 12

The Fifteenth Amendment increased the political influence of which group?

A) Southern white men
B) Southern white women
C) African American women
D) African American men

Question 13

Who made the following statement?: "Treason must be made odious,and traitors must be punished and impoverished."

A) Andrew Johnson
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Ulysses Grant
D) William Seward

Question 14

What is the term used to refer to all former slaves in the South?

A) vagrants
B) radicals
C) conspirators
D) freedmen

Question 15

According to the introductory video in section 15.1,Mary Surratt was arrested for __________.

A) conspiring to assassinate the president
B) running a boarding house without a license
C) shooting Secretary of State William Seward
D) hiding John Wilkes Booth from the authorities

Question 16

According to the introductory video in section 15.4,Ulysses Grant would most likely agree with which statement?

A) Andrew Johnson was in the right in his conflict with the Republicans.
B) The Republicans were in the right in their conflict with Andrew Johnson.
C) Restoring the Union was more difficult than waging war.
D) Waging war was more difficult than restoring the Union.

Question 17

Which of the following groups would have most likely voted for a Republican candidate during the Reconstruction era?

A) Southern planters
B) Confederate soldiers
C) Ku Klux Klan members
D) African Americans

Question 18

Which of the following survived an assassination attempt in 1865?

A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Ulysses Grant
D) William Seward

Question 19

Which of the following expressed the main message of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural speech?

A) "Thus always to tyrants"
B) "With malice toward none"
C) "Treason must be made odious"
D) "traitors must be punished"

Question 20

According to the introductory video in section 15.3,Matthew Gaines once was a(n)__________.

A) Southern Democrat
B) Republican state senator
C) Ku Klux Klan member
D) Confederate officer

Question 21

What term refers to the restoration of white Democrats to power in the Southern states?

A) Peace Policy
B) Reconstruction
C) Redemption
D) emancipation

Question 22

According to the introductory video in section 15.5,which of the following reflected the Southern view of the Civil War and Reconstruction?

A) Plessy v. Ferguson
B) The Birth of a Nation
C) the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
D) the Reconstruction amendments

Question 23

Which of the following was an "unredeemed" state when the presidential election of 1876 took place?

A) Arkansas
B) Texas
C) Virginia
D) South Carolina

Question 24

In the parade of freedmen in Charleston in 1865,one of the banners read,"Our past the Block,our future the School." What does the Block symbolize?

A) education
B) slavery
C) redemption
D) suffrage

Question 25

Which of the following ended Reconstruction?

A) Compromise of 1877
B) Ku Klux Klan Act
C) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) The Birth of a Nation

Question 26

By the end of 1877,Southerners would consider all the former Confederate states to have been __________.

A) emancipated
B) redeemed
C) assassinated
D) compromised

Question 27

In the parade of freedmen in Charleston in 1865,the slogan "Sumter Dug His Grave on the 13th of April,1861" linked the end of slavery to the beginning of __________.

A) The Birth of a Nation
B) the American Revolution
C) the Civil War
D) Redemption

Question 28

What does the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit as a reason for denying someone the right to vote?

A) religion
B) sex
C) age
D) race

Question 29

The Fourteenth Amendment limits the rights of __________.

A) whites
B) blacks
C) states
D) courts

Question 30

Compare and contrast the goals of the Republicans and the Democrats in 1877.

Question 31

Identify and explain the attitude toward Reconstruction expressed by the following presidents: Abraham Lincoln,Andrew Johnson,and Ulysses Grant.

Question 32

Which of the following can be inferred from the map?

A) The last states to be readmitted into the Union were Florida and Louisiana.
B) The former Confederate states won control of the Senate from the Republicans in the Union.
C) Readmission to the Union was contingent on the reestablishment of a conservative government.
D) White Southerners controlled state politics throughout the South when Reconstruction ended.

Question 33

According to the Arguing History video in section 15.6,who were barred from holding federal office during Reconstruction?

A) Confederate leaders
B) African Americans
C) Radical Republicans
D) Southern Democrats

Question 34

In the parade of freedmen in Charleston in 1865,one of the banners linked the cause of the freedmen to which figure?

A) John Brown
B) John Wilkes Booth
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Mary Surratt

Question 35

According to the Past and Present video in section 15.6,the phrase "forty acres and a mule" refers to freedmen's expectations of __________ equality during Reconstruction.

A) political
B) economic
C) social
D) cultural

Question 36

The Fourteenth Amendment states that the right to __________ cannot be revoked without due process of law.

A) property
B) representation
C) citizenship
D) education

Question 37

To what extent was Reconstruction a success? To what extent was it a failure?

Question 38

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

A) restrict the electorate
B) expand the electorate
C) abolish slavery
D) define citizenship

Question 39

Which of the following was a Radical Republican?

A) Thaddeus Stevens
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Robert E. Lee
D) Samuel Tilden

Question 40

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 15.6,which of the following provisions is found in the Fourteenth Amendment?

A) forty acres and a mule
B) amnesty for the South
C) equal protection
D) birthright citizenship