US History I
Mr. Grundfest
Reconstruction Test Review
A.
Reconstruction Acts
B.
Jim Crow laws
C.
black codes
D.
Rutherford B. Hayes
E.
Reconstruction
F.
Carpetbaggers
G.
Thirteenth Amendment
H.
Thaddeus Stevens
I.
J.
K.
O.
Poll taxes
Fourteenth Amendment
Literacy tests
L.
Enforcement Acts
M.
Fifteenth Amendment
N.
Amnesty
Scalawags
Numbers 1-9 are True/False
1.
The Ku Klux Klan used threats and violence to keep African Americans from voting.
2.
Most former slaves made money under the sharecropping system.
3.
Radical Republicans pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through Congress after many southern states refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
4.
President Lincoln had begun planning for Reconstruction before the war ended.
5.
Many African Americans turned to political activity to win their rights.
6.
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in the election of Samuel J. Tilden.
7.
The Senate vote on the impeachment of President Johnson fell one short of the required majority .
8.
The Supreme Court upheld the practice of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson.
9.
Booker T. Washington founded Howard University in 1881.
Numbers 10-30 are for possible multiple choice questions.
10.
How did African Americans win equal citizenship in the US?
11.
Which word best describes the conditions President Johnson set for the former
Confederate states’ readmission to the Union?
12.
What was the purpose of The Ku Klux Klan?
13.
What caused Moderate Republicans to break with President Johnson and unite with the Radical Republicans?
14.
What words best characterize President Lincoln's Reconstruction plans?
15.
Give some characteristics of Reconstruction legislatures, which included African
Americans.

16.
The arrangement in which farmers promised their crops to local merchants in exchange for supplies was known as…
17.
Which words best describes the South immediately after the Civil War?
18.
What were Southern whites who supported Reconstruction called?
19.
What did governments in the South adopt in order to force former slaves back into plantation labor?
20.
What did African-Americans do in response to segregation?
21.
Which African Americans were actively involved in Radical Reconstruction in the South?
22.
According to the Supreme Court decision in the Civil Rights cases (1883), why did the Fourteenth Amendment forbid discrimination against blacks?
23.
The African American leader who discouraged open actions against discrimination was…
24.
What did the 1864 Congressional Reconstruction Plan say?
25.
What did the Fifteenth Amendment guarantee?
26.
Why did the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Johnson?
27.
The Fifteenth Amendment guaranteed men the right to vote regardless of…
28.
What were farmers who worked the land in exchange for a portion of the crop called?
29.
What agreement between Republicans and southern Democrats gave Rutherford
B. Hayes the presidency?
30.
What laws were instituted to keep African Americans from voting?