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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 11 Reconstruction
This scholar founded the NAACP and was a graduate of Harvard University.
  1. Mary Wells
  2. Booker T Washington
  3. George Washington Carver
  4. W.E.B. Dubois
Grade 11 Reconstruction
Which of the following limited the economic recovery of the south?
  1. New cities rose up in Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee
  2. Railroad lines were expanded in southern states
  3. Southerners lobbied the federal government for financial help
  4. Southern banks struggled to support industrial development
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 4 Reconstruction
Grade 5 Reconstruction
The Jim Crow laws made                         legal.
  1. sharecropping
  2. African-American schools
  3. segregation
  4. slavery
Grade 12 Reconstruction
What Amendment (that was adopted in 1868) included four major provisions?
  1. Eighteenth Amendment
  2. fifteethn Amendment
  3. Fourteenth Amendment
  4. Sixteenth Amendment
Grade 10 Reconstruction
Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Southern states as a means to
  1. enforce racial segregation.
  2. provide an education for formerly enslaved persons.
  3. protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved persons
  4. ensure equal protection under the law
Grade 11 Reconstruction
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the end of Reconstruction?
  1. Violent intimidation of African American voters by the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist organizations
  2. A split within the Republican party over corruption in the Grant Administration
  3. Public outrage over the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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 4 Reconstruction
What were Jim Crow Laws?
  1. laws for the people
  2. laws to keep blacks and whites apart
  3. laws against slavery
  4. laws for women's rights
Grade 9 Reconstruction
Which president ended Reconstruction in the South?
  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Rutherford B. Hayes
  3. Teddy Roosevelt
  4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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