US Reconstruction Era 2

Question 1

The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibited denying the right to vote based on what criteria?

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Race, color, or previous condition of servitude

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Age, sex, or national origin

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Economic status or property ownership

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Literacy or educational attainment

Question 2

What was the term used for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party?

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Scalawags

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Carpetbaggers

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Freedmen

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Copperheads

Question 3

The Reconstruction Era officially ended in 1877 as a direct result of what event?

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The Compromise of 1877, which withdrew federal troops from the South

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The ratification of the 15th Amendment

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The assassination of President Garfield

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The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 4

The First Reconstruction Act of 1867 did what to the former Confederate states?

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Divided them into five military districts under Union Army control

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Pardoned all Confederate leaders and restored their political rights

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Returned control of Southern governments to local white authorities

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Required them to pay reparations to freed slaves

Question 5

Why was the Ku Klux Klan founded in 1865 during the Reconstruction Era?

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To terrorize Black Americans and Republican supporters to undermine Reconstruction

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To provide economic assistance to impoverished white Southerners

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To resist Northern corporate investment in Southern industries

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To preserve Confederate veterans' pension rights

Question 6

What was 'Radical Reconstruction,' led by the Radical Republicans in Congress?

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An aggressive approach ensuring civil rights for freed slaves and punishing Confederate leaders

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A lenient plan to quickly restore Southern states to the Union

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A program to redistribute Southern plantation land to freed slaves

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A movement to allow former Confederate soldiers to run for federal office

Question 7

What was the significance of General Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15 during Reconstruction?

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It promised freed slaves 40 acres of land, though President Johnson later reversed it

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It authorized the formation of the Buffalo Soldiers

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It established the Freedmen's Bureau in coastal Southern states

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It ordered the destruction of Confederate infrastructure in the South