Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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During the Reconstruction era, the 15th Amendment was adopted to grant African
Americans
a. | voting rights | c. | economic equality | b. | educational opportunities | d. | freedom of
speech |
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What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil
War?
a. | It provided for a fairer distribution of farm profits | c. | It quickly helped to rebuild the
South | b. | It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent | d. | It encouraged Northerners to move to the
South |
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Beginning in the late 1800s, poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
were used to
a. | protect important civil rights | c. | prevent African Americans from
voting | b. | improve public education | d. | restrict immigration |
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The seperate but equal principle established by the Supreme Court decision
Plessy v. Ferguson led to the
a. | start of the Civil War | c. | integration of white and African American in all aspects of
Southern life | b. | spread if racially segregated public facilities | d. | end of the Reconstruction
period |
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Which statement most accurately describes President Abraham Lincoln’s plan
for Reconstruction?
a. | The Union should be restored as quickly as possible | c. | African Americans should be given
free land | b. | Former Confederate soldiers should be imprisoned and tried for
treason | d. | Southerners should
be made to pay for their rebellion |
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Following Reconstruction, southern Democrats passed Jim Crow laws to
a. | provide extra money to the Freedman’s Bureau | c. | limit tenant farming and
sharecropping | b. | support the 14th and 15th amendments | d. | draw a line between blacks and whites in public
life |
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What issue led to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson?
a. | He appointed a Supreme Court Justice without Senate approval | c. | He fired cabinet
members without Senate approval | b. | He went against Lincoln’s wishes and
pardoned former Confederate leaders | d. | He created a new invention without a patent |
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During the Reconstruction era, one reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan
was to
a. | support African Americans getting equal rights | c. | return white Democrats to power in
the South | b. | encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe | d. | Support the South during the Civil
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Short Answer
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9.
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Describe one way that African Americans moved toward full
citizenship during the period of Reconstruction?
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10.
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Describe one way that African Americans moved away from full
citizenship during the period of Reconstruction?
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How did the assassination of President Lincoln impact Reconstruction?
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