Three Branches of Government
Which branch of government is responsible for making laws?
A. Executive
B. Legislative
C. Judicial
D. Cabinet
Answer: B. Legislative
What were President Johnson’s two main goals for Reconstruction?
A. Rebuild Southern cities and punish Confederate leaders
B. End slavery and require loyalty to the Union from Southern states
C. Expand voting rights to all citizens and build schools
D. Force Southern states to repay Northern war debts
Answer: B. End slavery and require loyalty to the Union from Southern states
What was the primary goal of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction?
A. To restore Southern governments quickly
B. To rebuild the Southern economy
C. To punish the South for the Civil War
D. To grant full rights of citizenship to freed people
Answer: D. To grant full rights of citizenship to freed people
Who were the primary new voters in the South under the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?
A. Freedmen, white Southerners who opposed the war, and Northerners who moved south. B. Only white Southerners
C. Only African Americans
D. Only Southern Democrats
Answer: A. Freedmen, white Southerners who opposed the war, and Northerners who moved south
What did the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 aim to do?
A. Increase taxes in the South
B. Prevent African Americans from voting
C. Combat violence and intimidation against African Americans
D. Grant amnesty to former Confederates
Answer: C. Combat violence and intimidation against African Americans
What is the main job of the Executive Branch?
A. Interpret the laws
B. Make the laws
C. Enforce the laws
D. Elect members of Congress
Answer: C. Enforce the laws
What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
A. Guaranteed equal voting rights
B. Gave land to freed people
C. Abolished slavery in the United States
D. Allowed freed people to serve on juries
Answer: C. Abolished slavery in the United States
What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
A. To grant the right to vote to all African Americans
B. To grant land to freed people in the South
C. To make freed people full citizens with the same civil rights as white people D. To end segregation in public schools
Answer: C. To make freed people full citizens with the same civil rights as white people
What was the main reason Ulysses S. Grant won the 1868 presidential election?
A. He was the Democratic candidate
B. He promised to end Reconstruction
C. He had the support of half a million black voters
D. He was a former Confederate general
Answer: C. He had the support of half a million black voters
What was the purpose of the Amnesty Act of 1872?
A. To grant forgiveness to former Confederates and restore their right to vote
B. To ensure African Americans could vote in Southern elections
C. To remove federal troops from the South
D. To introduce new laws against white Southerners
Answer: A. To grant forgiveness to former Confederates and restore their right to vote
Who leads the Executive Branch of the U.S. government?
A. Chief Justice
B. Speaker of the House C. Vice President D. President
Answer: D. President
What was one major success of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A. Providing education to African Americans. B. Distributing large farms to freed people
C. Giving freed people voting rights
D. Rebuilding the Southern economy
Answer: A. Providing education to African Americans
What did the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 do?
A. It gave land to freed people in the South
B. It divided the South into five military districts
C. It created new state governments in the South
D. It ended Johnson’s Reconstruction plan
Answer: B. It divided the South into five military districts
What did the Fifteenth Amendment guarantee?
A. The right to vote for all women
B. The right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
C. The abolition of slavery in the South
D. The right to own land for African Americans
Answer: B. The right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What was the main goal of Southern leaders after Reconstruction?
A. To maintain the status quo of poverty
B. To build a "New South" with mills, factories, and cities
C. To continue the public education system for African Americans
D. To eliminate industries in the South
Answer: B. To build a "New South" with mills, factories, and cities
What is the main responsibility of the Judicial Branch?
A. Pass laws
B. Approve treaties
C. Interpret laws and ensure they are constitutional
D. Enforce laws across the states
Answer: C. Interpret laws and ensure they are constitutional
What were Black Codes designed to do?
A. Give freed people more economic power
B. Encourage black and white people to live together
C. Restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans
D. Support African American-owned businesses
Answer: C. Restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans
Why was President Johnson impeached?
A. He violated the Tenure of Office Act and opposed Congress
B. He failed to pass the Fourteenth Amendment
C. He encouraged racial segregation in the South
D. He supported the black codes in Southern states
Answer: A. He violated the Tenure of Office Act and opposed Congress
What was one key feature of the new state constitutions written during Southern Reconstruction?
A. They guaranteed equal voting rights for all women
B. They only allowed white students in schools
C. They banned public schools
D. They ended imprisonment for debt
Answer: D. They ended imprisonment for debt
What was the purpose of the "grandfather clause" in Southern voting laws?
A. To exempt African Americans from literacy tests
B. To encourage African Americans to vote by lowering taxes
C. To allow only white men to vote by excusing them from paying poll taxes or passing literacy tests
D. To guarantee voting rights to all black citizens
Answer: C. To allow only white men to vote by excusing them from paying poll taxes or passing literacy tests
Which two groups make up the Legislative Branch?
A. House of Representatives and Senate
B. Supreme Court and President
C. Congress and Supreme Court
D. Cabinet and Congress
Answer: A. House of Representatives and Senate
Which of the following was not a goal of the Black Codes?
A. To limit the rights of freed people
B. To promote racial equality in the South
C. To ensure a supply of cheap labor for landowners
D. To maintain a social order that kept Black people inferior
Answer: B. To promote racial equality in the South
What was the main issue with sharecropping for freed people?
A. They had to work for low wages
B. They could not earn enough to pay back debts
C. They were not allowed to rent land
D. They were required to work in factories
Answer: B. They could not earn enough to pay back debts
What was the significance of African Americans serving in office in the South during Reconstruction?
A. They were only symbolic and had no real power
B. They were the majority of elected officials
C. They represented a significant step toward political representation for African Americans
D. They were mostly appointed by the president
Answer: C. They represented a significant step toward political representation for African Americans
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?
A. It ruled that segregation laws violated the Fourteenth Amendment
B. It ruled that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were "equal"
C. It overturned all Jim Crow laws
D. It granted African Americans the right to vote
Answer: B. It ruled that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were "equal"