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Grade 8 Reconstruction
In the years following Reconstruction,
  1. southern states saw a sharp fall in industrial growth.
  2. new industries began to develop in the southern economy.
  3. the South's economy went into a permanent decline.
  4. the South's dependence on cotton grew.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
The tone of Radical Reconstruction was set by the
  1. Emancipation Proclamation.
  2. Thirteenth Amendment.
  3. Ten Percent Plan.
  4. Reconstruction Act of 1867.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Which of the following were NOT a part of Radical Reconstruction?
  1. The governments of southern states that had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment were removed.
  2. States returning to the Union could decide for themselves whether or not African Americans could vote.
  3. Before they could return to the Union, Confederate states had to write new constitutions.
  4. Martial law was imposed on southern states that had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Why did Congress propose the Wade-Davis Bill?
  1. Congress wanted a stricter policy toward Reconstruction than Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan.
  2. The bill was meant to be a challenge to President Johnson.
  3. Congress wanted "soft" Reconstruction.
  4. The bill had the support of the South's new state governments.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Which of the following is an example of the Ku Klux Klan's reaction to voting by African Americans?
  1. Members of the Ku Klux Klan helped to register black voters in the South.
  2. Members of the Ku Klux Klan conducted acts of violence that led to the decline of voting by African Americans.
  3. Members of the Ku Klux Klan pledged to protect the rights of African Americans.
  4. Members of the Ku Klux Klan were willing to share political power with African Americans.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
One reason for the conflict between President Johnson and Congress was
  1. Johnson had been a Copperhead during the war.
  2. Johnson put his plan for Reconstruction into effect without consulting Congress.
  3. Congress did not want a Democrat to be president.
  4. Congressmen resented the fact that Johnson was a southerner.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
What was one of the first signs of conflict between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction?
  1. Johnson vetoed every bill sent to him by Congress.
  2. Congress refused to let Johnson succeed Lincoln as President.
  3. Johnson gave a speech in which he said that he could not work with Congress.
  4. Congress refused to seat southern senators and representatives who had been newly elected by Southern states.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
How did Reconstruction finally come to an end?
  1. To become President, Rutherford B. Hayes promised the Democrats that he would end Reconstruction.
  2. The Democrats won the election of 1876 and ended Reconstruction.
  3. President Grant ended Reconstruction just before leaving office.
  4. Congress voted to end Reconstruction.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
The Radicals began to lose power
  1. with Johnson's impeachment.
  2. with the assassination of Lincoln.
  3. after Reconstruction ended.
  4. when Grant was elected President
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Amnesty
  1. state laws that recreated the conditions similar to those of slavery
  2. official government pardon
  3. provided Aftrican Americans with the same legal rights as white Americans
  4. secret society that used violence to deny African Americans their rights
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Many of the teachers in schools set up by the Freedmen's Bureau
  1. were men who had fought for the Union during the war.
  2. refused to teach black and white children in the same school.
  3. were women who had been educated in the North.
  4. did not want to work in the South.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
As opponents of the Republicans began to take back the South,
  1. African Americans slowly gained more rights.
  2. African Americans lost more rights.
  3. campaigns of terror against African Americans came to an end.
  4. Democrats lost power in the South.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Why were southern laws that stopped African Americans from voting NOT considered illegal?
  1. They were never tested in court.
  2. They were not public laws, so no one knew about them.
  3. Congress said that the states could pass the laws.
  4. They applied in theory to both whites and African Americans.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
The most common form of farm work for freed slaves was                .
  1. override
  2. sharecropping
  3. integrated
  4. impeach
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Immediately after the Civil War, most former slaves
  1. became sharecroppers on land owned by whites.
  2. received some education with assistance from the Freedmen's Bureau.
  3. remained poor, but had greater freedom over their personal lives.
  4. all of the above.
Grade 8 Reconstruction
Which of the following BEST defines "home rule"?
  1. military rule for all southern states that had refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
  2. the ability of southern African Americans to vote in their home towns
  3. the reentry to the Union by former Confederate states
  4. the withdrawal of federal troops and full amnesty for former Confederates
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