1. Reconstruction Era Ch 5 Review
US HISTORY
Reconstruction Era
Ch 5 Review

2. 1. In their Reconstruction policies, both President Lincoln and President Johnson insisted upon
A) Southern approval of the Thirteenth Amendment.
B) immediate elections in all southern states.
C) a fair redistribution of land.
D) sworn statements of allegiance from a majority of citizens.

3. 2. The Radical Republicans opposed President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, saying it was too
A) difficult to carry out.
B) generous to the freed people.
C) harsh on the South.
D) lenient on the South.

4. 3. The first and only ex-Confederate state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866, escape much of radical reconstruction and thus be immediately readmitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was
a. Virginia.
b. Mississippi.
c. Tennessee.
d. Alabama

5. 4. Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by
a. passing black codes.
b. holding constitutional conventions.
c. refusing to pay war debts.
d. refusing to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.

6. 5. A main goal of the Ku Klux Klan’s terror was to
A) drive the Republicans out of the South.
B) end women’s suffrage.
C) pass the Fifteenth Amendment.
D) secure the election of Samuel Tilden.

7. 6. When Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act, he was
a. forced to resign.
b. dropped from the Republican Party.
c. convicted by the Senate.
d. impeached by the House.

8. 7. The literacy tests and poll taxes used in the southern states after 1870 were designed to
a. ensure that only well-informed people voted.
b. prevent African Americans from voting.
c. provide an alternative to citizenship tests.
d. promote advances in public education.

9. 8. What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
a. Grandfather clauses in voting-restriction laws were unconstitutional.
b. Segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities provided were equal.
c. Men who had ancestors who voted prior to black suffrage were exempt from literary tests.
d. Jim Crow laws were unconstitutional.

10. 9. A major failure of Reconstruction was that
a. the South’s cotton production never recovered.
b. war debts remained unpaid.
c. racist attitudes continued in the North and South.
d. no African Americans were voted into Congress.

11. 10. Reconstruction came to end when
a. the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.
b. federal troops were removed from the South.
c. President Johnson was impeached.
d. the Freedmen’s Bureau was dismantled.

12. Key Terms “The Lost Cause” “Forty Acres & A Mule” Freedman’s Bureau
10% Plan
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Sharecroppers
Tenant Farmers

13. Key Terms Infrastructure Tenure of Office Act Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Plessy v. Ferguson (1898)
Jim Crow
Grandfather Clause
Lynching