Quiz: Chapter 22

The Freedmen's Bureau (1865) was created mainly to:

• a. Aid formerly enslaved people and destitute whites, including through schools
• b. Punish former Confederate soldiers
• c. Rebuild southern railroads only
• d. Enforce the Fugitive Slave Law

President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy was generally:

• a. Lenient toward former Confederates
• b. Harsher than Congress wanted
• c. Focused on granting land to freedpeople
• d. Identical to Lincoln's plan

"Black Codes" passed by southern states were designed to:

• a. Severely restrict the rights of freedpeople
• b. Grant full citizenship to freedpeople
• c. Give Black men the right to vote
• d. Provide free land to freedpeople

The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) guaranteed:

• a. Citizenship and equal protection under the law
• b. The right to vote regardless of race
• c. Free land for freedpeople
• d. Prohibition of alcohol

The Fifteenth Amendment (1870) specifically addressed:

• a. The right to vote regardless of race
• b. Citizenship rights
• c. Women's suffrage
• d. Abolition of slavery

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into:

• a. Military districts
• b. New states
• c. Economic free zones
• d. Church parishes

Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 largely over his violation of the:

• a. Tenure of Office Act
• b. Fourteenth Amendment
• c. Emancipation Proclamation
• d. Missouri Compromise

The Senate's vote on Johnson's impeachment resulted in:

• a. Acquittal by a single vote
• b. Conviction and removal
• c. A unanimous acquittal
• d. No vote at all

Northerners who moved south to support Republican Reconstruction governments were called:

• a. Carpetbaggers
• b. Scalawags
• c. Copperheads
• d. Redeemers

The Ku Klux Klan primarily used violence and intimidation to:

• a. Suppress Black political participation
• b. Support the Freedmen's Bureau
• c. Help elect Black officials
• d. Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment

The Compromise of 1877 resolved the disputed election by:

• a. Making Hayes president in exchange for withdrawing federal troops from the South
• b. Holding a new nationwide election
• c. Splitting the presidency between two men
• d. Canceling the election results entirely

The withdrawal of federal troops in 1877 mainly resulted in:

• a. White Democrats reasserting control and eroding Black rights
• b. Continued strong federal enforcement of civil rights
• c. Full racial equality across the South
• d. Renewed civil war