Reconstruction PreTest
____ 1. After the Civil War, the period known as Reconstruction referred mainly to the process of...
a. replacing southern leaders with leaders from northern states
b. rebuilding the structures and businesses damaged during the war
c. reconnecting family members who were separated during the war
d. restoring relationships between southern states and the rest of the Union
____ 2. Which event occurred first?
a. passage of 13th Amendment
b. Andrew Johnson became president
c. Radical Reconstruction Congress elected
d. establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau
____ 3. How did many southern state governments respond to the demands of Reconstruction?
a. several state governments reintroduced the international slave trade
b. several state governments passed laws to limit opportunities for African
Americans
c. several state governments introduced Constitutional amendments to
expand citizenship and voting rights to African Americans
d. several state governments recalled national legislators and again proposed
secession
____ 4. Whose point of view below supports the belief that Reconstruction in the South should not be
cruel and harsh so that better relationships between North and South could be reestablished?
a. Radical Republicans’ point of view
b. Andrew Johnson’s point of view
c. Ulysses Grant’s point of view
d. Thaddeus Stevens’ point of view
____ 5. What was the primary goal of Radical Republican legislative reform programs?
a. to establish equality under the law for freedman
b. to restore white Southern representation in congress
c. to honor military leaders of the confederacy
d. to prevent African-American land ownership
____ 6. What impact did the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels have on American society during
Reconstruction
a. it exposed the dangers of free elections in the South
b. it pressured Radical Republicans to support women’s suffrage
c. it confirmed that African Americans could participate fully in political life
d. it convinced the U.S. Congress to ban the importation of slaves
____ 7. What was the main reason supporters joined the creation of the Ku Klux Klan (during the late
Reconstruction Era)?
a. to support the South during the Civil War
b. to eliminate sharecropping throughout the South
c. to prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights
d. to encourage European immigrants to settle in the South
____ 8. What was a major goal of the Dawes Act (1887)?
a. to encourage European immigration to the West
b. to strengthen Native American Indian traditions
c. to assimilate native American Indians into American society
d. to remove the Cherokee from the southeastern United States
____ 9. The purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to
a. gain former slaves the right to vote
b. grant each slave 40 acres and a mule
c. repeal the Black Codes
d. assist former slaves in getting employment, education, food and clothing
____ 10. Which statement best explains how the Civil War affected wealthy plantation owners?
a. they experienced a decrease in both their wealth and power
b. they retained their wealth but lost the majority of their land
c. they retained their power and influence in spite of their losses
d. they rose to higher positions since people sympathized with their losses
____ 11. The Homestead Act of 1862 gave settlers 160 acres of western land for free if they spent 5
years farming the land. a positive effect of the Homestead Act was...
a. a decrease in immigration into the West
b. significant development of the United States
c. development of better and cheaper farm tools
d. the elimination of poverty in the United States
____ 12. Which statement best explains why many freed slaves in the south became sharecroppers?
a. they were forbidden to own land of their own
b. they lacked money to purchase their own land
c. they did not know how to buy land of their own
d. they were not interested in owning their own land
____ 13. What was the purpose of the Morill Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1862?
a. to establish several public libraries in every state of the United States
b. to set aside land for churches and school throughout the United States
c. to provide land for the establishment of state universities in the United
States
d. to provide land and encourage settlement in western parts of the United
States
____ 14. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were added to the Constitution after
the Civil War. All three of these amendments were meant to establish and extend the...
a. rights of the individual states
b. Black Codes of the South
c. civil rights of black citizens
d. Reconstruction Act of 1867
Reconstruction PreTest
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