Reconstruction

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Which of the following occurred first?

?

Radical/Military Reconstruction split the South into how many military districts?

5

Andrew Johnson vetoed all of the following except

Ku Klux Klan Act (did veto Command of the Army Act, Military Reconstruction, Tenure of Office Act, Freedmen's Bureau)

The creator and overseer of the Freedman's Bureau and the KKK respectively were

Oliver Howard and Nathan Bedford Forrest.

As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,

Radicals sought a range of punishments for white southerners.

Which of the following was not a voting restriction used by southern states?

Tenure of office requirement (property requirement, poll tax, literacy tests, grandfather clause were used)

Who won the election of 1868?

Ulysses S. Grant

Which of the following did not become a law?

Wade Davis Bill.

The elections of 1876 saw

the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected.

Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if

the federal government had better enforced the laws designed to assist blacks.

Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871

was aimed at reducing white repression of blacks in the South.

At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States was

almost four million.

The Supreme Court rules in Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) that

racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations".


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