Name: _______________________
Quiz – Reconstruction
___ 1) During Reconstruction, the Black Codes
A) protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.
B) forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.
C) were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.
D) were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.
___2) The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to
A) provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.
B) gain the vote for millions of former slaves.
C) provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.
D) get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.
___3) Which of these would have been a goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the south during Reconstruction?
A) making sure Reconstruction went smoothly
B) assisting the scalawags and carpetbaggers
C) ensuring that freedmen had the right to vote
D) restoring southern Democrats to political power
___4) What agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply
food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves?
A) the Ku Klux Klan
B) the Freedmen's Bureau
C) the American Missionary Association
D) the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
___5) Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as
A) a plan to fix the damage to the White House caused by the Civil War.
B) a desire to rebuild the southern states quickly to help control the economy.
C) a desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill feelings following the war.
D) a desire to punish those southerners responsible for causing and/or prolonging the war.
___6) In American history, the term "Reconstruction" refers to
A) problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy.
B) the admission of Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.
federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of
C)
former slaves.
the establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on
D) industrial machinery.
___7) Which group was created in late 1865 to resist Reconstruction efforts in the South?
A) the Ku Klux Klan
B) the Scalawags
C) the White Knights
D) the Knights of Columbus