US Reconstruction Era 2

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Answer

The 15th Amendment specifically prohibited federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Scalawags

Answer

Scalawags was a derogatory term used to describe white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, viewed as traitors by many of their neighbors.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

The Compromise of 1877 resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election by allowing Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to become president in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the South.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Divided them into five military districts under Union Army control

Answer

The First Reconstruction Act divided the ten unreconstructed Southern states into five military districts governed by Union Army generals, requiring new state constitutions before readmission.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

To terrorize Black Americans and Republican supporters to undermine Reconstruction

Answer

The Ku Klux Klan was founded as a white supremacist organization to use violence and intimidation against Black Americans, carpetbaggers, scalawags, and Reconstruction-era Republican governments.

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US Reconstruction Era 2