U2L4 The Aftermath of Reconstruction (Quiz)

Question 1

What can be inferred by the passage of black codes?

Answer 1

Many white southerners wanted African Americans to remain as servants.

Question 2

Which of the following supported Radical Reconstruction?

• Businesspeople tested in rebuilding
• Newly freed Africans Americans
• Rich, white landowners
• Scalawags

Answer 2

• businesspeople
• newly freed African Americans
• Scalawags

Question 3

After the passage of the Thirteen, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment, why did African Americans continue to experience political oppression?

Answer 3

Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.

Question 4

Which of he following is a major example of Abraham Lincoln’s policy of leniency toward the defeated South?

Answer 4

President Lincoln’s decision that the Southern state governments could recognize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union

Question 5

Why was President Lincoln unable to persuade Congress to accept his Reconstruction plan?

Answer 5

President Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to persuade Congress.

Question 6

What did President Johnson believe Reconstruction should accomplish?

Answer 6

That rich, white southern landowners would not return to power

Question 7

According to the ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, why was segregation acceptable?

Answer 7

Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.