Lesson 3
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 4
Miscellaneous
100
Republicans were the dominant political party during Reconstruction.
A.TRUE
B.FALSE
A.TRUE
100
Scalawags were ____.
A.white Northerners
B.white Southerners
C.southern African Americans
D.northern African Americans
B.white Southerners
100
Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant was elected president twice.
A.TRUE
B.FALSE
A.TRUE
100
Which word most accurately describes Southern industry in the 1880s?
A.nonexistent
B.inactive
C.destroyed
D.growing
D.growing
100
Black codes
laws made to limit the freedom of African Americans
200
The number of African Americans holding important government positions during Reconstruction was ____.
A.zero
B.very small
C.about half of all government officials in the South
D.nearly all government officials in the South
B.very small
200
Carpetbaggers were named after their suitcases.
A.TRUE
B.FALSE
A.TRUE
200
The United States suffered an economic wave of fear in the Panic of ____.
A.1869
B.1873
C.1877
D.1881
B.1873
200
Southern leaders created poll taxes to pay African Americans to vote.
A.TRUE
B.FALSE
B.FALSE
200
14th Amendment
Gave citizenship to African Americans
300
Blanche K. Bruce was ____.
A.the first African American senator to serve a full term
B.a leader of the Radical Republicans
C.a founder of the Ku Klux Klan
D.the head of the Freedmen's Bureau
A.the first African American senator to serve a full term
300
The number of African Americans attending school during Reconstruction ____.
A.increased
B.decreased
C.decreased for children and increased for adults
D.increased for children and decreased for adults
A.increased
300
Which person was a "redeemer"?
A.a Southern Democrat
B.a Northern Democrat
C.a Southern Republican
D.a Northern Republican
A.a Southern Democrat
300
"Jim Crow" laws required which practice?
A.integration
B.segregation
C.literacy tests
D.sharecropping
B.segregation
300
Literacy Test
required potential voters to read and explain some of the difficult parts of the constitution in order to vote
400
____ was the first African American elected to the United Sates Senate.
A.Blanche Bruce
B.Josiah T. Walls
C.Hiram Revels
D.Jonathan C. Gibbs
C.Hiram Revels
400
Most schools built during Reconstruction were open to Southerners of all races.
A.TRUE
B.FALSE
B.FALSE
400
The election of ____ as president brought Reconstruction to an end.
A.Ulysses S. Grant
B.Rutherford B. Hayes
C.Samuel Tilden
D.Andrew Johnson
B.Rutherford B. Hayes
400
13th Amendment
Slavery is illegal
500
Which word is closest in meaning to scalawag?
A.hero
B.scoundrel
C.sharecropper
D.rebel
B.scoundrel
500
In sharecropping, what does the farmer give the landowner?
A.a percentage of the crop
B.profits from crop sales
C.seeds, tools, and a mule
D.money for rent
A.a percentage of the crop
500
In ____ the last Union troops left the South, marking the end of Reconstruction.
A.1875
B.1876
C.1877
D.1878
C.1877
500
"Buffalo soldiers" were African Americans who escaped the South by joining the army.
A.TRUE
B.FALSE
A.TRUE
500
15th Amendment
Gave the right to vote to any man. No matter the race, color, or previous condition of servitude