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Questions

1. The Ku Klux Klan organized during Reconstruction was largely:

a. a vigilante group that arose after the war to terrorize African Americans and Republicans throughout the South

b. a Confederate veterans group created for social activities

c. a political organization where members could go for a drink

d. a terrorist network of disappointed Republicans

2. According to President Lincoln's plan for readmission of former Confederate States to the Union, ten percent of population had to:

a. prove that they had never willingly supported the Confederacy

b. pledge an oath of allegiance to the United States

c. agree to renounce the Confederate debt

d. give 40 acres of their land to freed slaves

3. Nightriders were vigilante groups that;

a. protected people immediately after the Civil War when law enforcement was nonexistent

b. terrorized Freedmen to reduce their political involvement

c. intimidated Southerners who did not support Reconstruction

d. stole cattle and other livestock throughout the South

4. What was significant about Special Field Order 15?

a. allowed General William T. Sherman to establish the Freedmen's Bureau

b. set aside forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for Freedmen

c. gave forty acres and a mule to blacks who wished to move to the unsettled American Southwest.

d. instructions from General William T. Sherman to his soldiers to burn and destroy all Southerners' properly where ever the army marched

5. All of the following were consequences for the market for southern cotton after the Civil War except:

a. the labor force was disrupted with the abolishment of slavery

b. plantations were divided up to accommodate sharecroppers

c. the growing of cotton immediately expanded west with the completion of the trans-continental railroad

d. cotton prices dropped because of foreign competition

6. Black women sought to redefine their

a. public; private

b. professional; social

c. political; military

d. racial; economic

7. Which was NOT an important belief of President Andrew Johnson in 1865?

a. states should not pay off the debts they incurred while part of the Confederacy

b. he championed freedmen and backed civil rights

c. he wanted to limit federal interference in state and local governments

d. he opposed wealthy plantation owners

8. The Thirteenth Amendment:

a. outlawed secession

b. defined citizenship

c. granted black male suffrage

d. abolished slavery

9. What role did the church play in black communities during Reconstruction?

a. increased since northern black churches moved into the South

b. declined since African Americans joined white churches rather than be segregated

c. declined since other black-run institutions, such as political parties, became more popular in African American communities

d. increased since African Americans formed their own churches

10. The Enforcement Acts:

a. restricted the activities of the Ku Klux Klan

b. restricted the civil rights of Freedmen

c. helped Southern Democrats regain power

d. relied on local militias to protect Freedmen.