Political(Gov.Laws)
What was the Purpose of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
Answer: To divide the South into military districts and enforce new laws protecting African American rights.
What economic system replaced slavery in the South, keeping freedpeople in a cycle of debt?
Answer: Sharecropping
What group used violence to intimidate Black voters and politicians during Reconstruction?
Answer: The Ku Klux Klan.
Who was the U.S. President during most of Reconstruction, leading efforts to protect African American rights?
Answer: Ulysses S. Grant.
Which Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century fought to complete the work of Reconstruction?
Answer: The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-60s.
What was the significance of the Compromise of 1877?
Answer: It ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What promise was made to freed slaves regarding land that was never fulfilled?
Answer: 40 acres and a mule.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Answer: Laws enforcing racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
Who was the Radical Republican leader who fought for harsh penalties on the South and equal rights for freed slaves?
Answer: Thaddeus Stevens.
How did the failure of Reconstruction affect racial equality in the U.S.?
Answer: It allowed segregation, discrimination, and violence against African Americans to continue for decades.
Which U.S. President was impeached for opposing Radical Reconstruction?
Answer: Andrew Johnson
Why did many freed African Americans struggle economically after the Civil War?
Answer: They had little land, few job opportunities, and faced discrimination.
What Supreme Court case upheld segregation under “separate but equal”?
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson.
Who was the first African American U.S. Senator, elected during Reconstruction?
Answer: Hiram Revels
What amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.?
Answer: The 13th Amendment.
What were the Black Codes?
Answer: Laws in the South that restricted the rights of freed African Americans.
What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Answer: To provide education, food, and assistance to freed slaves and poor whites.
What methods did Southern states use to prevent Black men from voting after Reconstruction?
Answer: Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses.
Who was the President assassinated at the start of Reconstruction?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln.
What law, passed nearly 100 years after Reconstruction, finally ended legal segregation?
Answer: The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
How did the 14th Amendment change the rights of African Americans?
Answer: It granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
How did industrialization in the North affect Reconstruction efforts?
Answer: The North became focused on economic growth and moved away from supporting Reconstruction in the South.
What was the impact of Reconstruction on African American education?
Answer: More schools were built for freedpeople, but funding was limited, and segregation continued.
What African American leader emphasized education and economic success as a way to combat racism after Reconstruction?
Answer: Booker T. Washington.
How does voter suppression today connect to Reconstruction-era voting restrictions?
Answer: Some modern voting laws, like strict ID requirements and voter roll purges, echo past efforts to limit Black political power.