APUSH Reconstruction Worksheets

The last of the Reconstruction era amendments to pass was the

Fifteenth Amendment.

As a politician, Andrew Johnson developed a reputation as a(n)

"champion of the poor whites" and a racist.

All of the following reveal the various ways southern blacks responded to the prospect of emancipation:

(SOME) slaves resisted the Union armies, slaves responded violently toward their masters, and also even joined the Union armies in looting their owners.

Which one of the following are the 4 most related to the? a. Scalawags b. Ku Klux Klan c. Carpetbaggers d. Freedmen e. Union League

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The Black Codes provided for all of the following:

A ban on jury service by blacks, punishment of blacks for idleness, a ban on blacks from renting land, and fines for blacks that jumped labor contracts.

True statements about the Black Codes:

They were put into effect to ensure a stable, subservient labor force and to make sure whites retained tight control over black workers.

Which of these is NOT a true statement about women's rights activists during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras?

Women's rights activists campaigned in support of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as

a meddlesome interloper that threatened to upset white racial dominance.

The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as

a secret terrorist organization.

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when

the last federal troops were removed in 1877.

Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because

they gave equal rights to African American males but not to women.

To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that

they had not actually won the war.

The fate of the defeated Confederate leaders was that

they were pardoned by Johnson.

Andrew Johnson had been put on Lincoln's ticket as vice president in his second term

to hopefully gain Southern votes.

The 14th Amendment guaranteed

citizenship to free slaves.

Freedom for Southern blacks at the end of the Civil War

was confusing, and blacks would be freed and re-enslaved as the Union armies marched through the South.

A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was

white resentment of the ability and success of black legislators.

Political corruption during Reconstruction was

present in both the North and the South.

The Fourteenth Amendment

prohibited ex-Confederate leaders from holding public office.

In the postwar south,

economic life had creaked to a halt and agriculture was hopelessly crippled.

Blacks in the South relied on the Union League to

educate them on their civic duties.

The greatest achievements of the Freedmen's Bureau were in

education.

In 1865, Southern blacks often began travelling in order to

find their families and test their freedom.

Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that

freed slaves must be given the right to vote.

In President Johnson's view, the Freedmen's Bureau was

he ALSO thought they were a meddlesome interloper that threatened to upset racial dominance.

President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction

included disenfranchising certain Confederate leaders, special state conventions to repeal the ordinances of secession, and ratifying the 13th Amendment, among other things.

Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

intimidating blacks and undermining them politically.

The goals of the Ku Klux Klan included all of the following

keep blacks in their place, prevent blacks from voting, keep white carpetbaggers from voting, and end radical Reconstruction.

During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles, which included:

participating in black church life, monitoring constitutional conventions, participating in political rallies, and organizing mass meetings.

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to do the following:

provide food, clothing, medical care, and education to both freedmen and white refugees.

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

regulate the affairs of the emancipated blacks.

At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners

remained dangerously defiant and high-spirited.

Many feminist leaders were especially disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it

specified for the first time in the Constitution that only males could vote.

For congressional Republicans, one of the most troubling aspects of the Southern states' quick restoration to the Union was that

the South would be stronger than ever in national politics.

Which of the following was NOT among the functions provided by the Black Union League?

Helping blacks migrate from the South to the North.

The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was

Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.

The first and ex-Confederate state to ratify the 14th Amendment in 1866 and thus be immediately re-admitted to the Union under congressional Reconstruction was

Tennessee.

A group of Kentucky blacks provided what description of the KKK in an 1871 letter to Congress?

That the KKK rode through towns at night, robbing, whipping, ravishing, and killing blacks.

For blacks, emancipation meant the following:

black families were strengthened, black marriages were recognized, and they formed their own churches.