SOL Quiz 17

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SOL Quiz 17

• Reconstruction

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1. Which of the following is the most CORRECT
statement of the effect of President Lincoln's
assassination? a. Martial law was declared in all
but the New England states. b. Congressional and
presidential plans for Reconstruction were
combined. c. Radical Republicans, advocating a
less lenient Reconstruction, gained more
power and influence. d. Reconstruction
"hard-liners" were blamed for inciting the
assassination.
The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was captured and
investigators discovered that he was part of a
group that had planned to assassinate other
government officials, including Vice-President
Johnson and Secretary of War Stanton. As the
public became aware of the scope of the plan, the
hand of the Radical Republicans was strengthened.
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2. The primary purpose of the Black Codes was
to a. ensure the civil rights of the former
slaves b. encourage vocational training and
education for freedmen c. weaken the power of the
Democratic Party d. keep blacks under white
control and break their economic power
During the first few years after the Civil War,
the lenient Lincoln-Johnson Reconstruction policy
gave Southern state governments much freedom in
their internal affairs. Southern whites took
advantage of this lenience by enacting Black
Codes. These laws, passed in 1865 and 1866, had
two main purposes one was to deprive blacks of
certain rights and keep them socially inferior to
whites. The other purpose was to break the
spirit and the economic power of free black
laborers.
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3. Which of the following measures declared that
all persons born in the United States were
citizens of the United States? a. 13th
Amendment b. 14th Amendment c. 15th Amendment d.
Emancipation Proclamation
The 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) declared
that all persons born in the United States were
citizens of the United States. It created a new
kind of citizenship -- national citizenship.
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4. Which of the following is TRUE? a.
carpetbaggers were Northerners who went South to
participate in Reconstruction b. scalawags
were freedmen who went North c. scalawags were
white Southerners who had lost the right to
vote d. carpetbaggers were Southern whites who
accepted posts in reconstruction governments
Carpetbaggers was the derogatory term used by
Southerners to describe Northerners who went
South to participate in Reconstruction. Some
worked to help blacks, but others sought personal
power or fortune. These people were called
"carpetbaggers" because many of them carried
luggage made of carpeting material.
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5. One Southern reaction to Congressional
Reconstruction was the use of racist secret
societies to obstruct Reconstruction policies by
intimidation. One such society was the a.
Knights of Labor b. Patrons of Husbandry and the
Grange c. Native American Association d. Knights
of the White Camellia
One Southern reaction to Congressional
Reconstruction was the use of racist secret
societies to obstruct Reconstruction policies
through intimidation. One such society was the
Knights of the White Camellia (1860). Others
were the Ku Klux Klan (1865), the White League,
the Invisible Circle, and the Pale Faces. They
were all secret societies that opposed
Reconstruction and promoted "white supremacy."