Chapter 6 Reconstruction   1. Why did the plantation system collapse in the South after the Civil War?     A) Enslaved workers had been freed.     B) Roads had become impassable.     C) Railroads had been destroyed.     D) Confederate money was worthless.   2. Why were tenant farmers and sharecroppers after the Civil War often almost as bad off as enslaved persons had been during slavery?     A) They were forbidden to live together as families.     B) They were trapped in an economic system in which they could seldom better themselves.     C) They were constantly being harassed by the Freedmen's Bureau.     D) They were forbidden to go to school.   3. What changes did many African Americans who stayed on the plantations want after they were freed?     A) They wanted to take their former slaveholders' last names.     B) They asked for the privacy of separate cabins.     C) They demanded time off to go to school.     D) They refused to work for white plantation owners.   4. Which of the following statements about the Freedmen's Bureau is true?     A) It contributed to the founding of Harvard University.     B) It refused to return land on the Sea Islands of South Carolina to its original owners.     C) It founded 45 hospitals in 14 states.     D) It was overstaffed.   5. What was the purpose of the black codes?     A) to promote reconciliation between the North and South     B) to charge the president with high crimes and misdemeanors     C) to severely limit the rights of African Americans in the South     D) to help African Americans obtain their civil rights in the South   6. Which of the following statements was NOT true about Radical Reconstruction?     A) Radical Republicans hoped to win over the African American voters to their party.     B) Radical plans denied freed African Americans the right to vote.     C) Radical plans were favored by Northern businesses.     D) Radical plans were inspired by self-interest and a desire to punish the South for the war.   7. Radical Republicans disenfranchised former Confederates. What does this mean?     A) Former Confederates were given government jobs.     B) Former Confederates had their right to vote taken away from them.     C) Former Confederates were pardoned for what they had done during the war.     D) Former Confederates were accused of high crimes and misdemeanors.   8. Which of the following statements about carpetbag governments is true?     A) Carpetbag governments accomplished nothing good in the South.     B) Carpetbag governments generally had a reputation for graft, fraud, and waste.     C) All carpetbaggers were respectable, honest, and sincerely devoted to the public interest.     D) Carpetbaggers were Southerners who came North after the war to escape Reconstruction.   9. After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Congress passed several pieces of legislation meant to limit the power of the presidency. Which of the following acts falls into this category?     A) Reconstruction Act     B) Army Appropriation Act     C) Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution     D) Civil Rights Bill   10. What was the end result of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson?     A) He was acquitted and ran again for president in 1868.     B) He was found guilty and put in prison for his crimes.     C) Johnson was found guilty but was allowed to remain as president.     D) Johnson was acquitted but the rest of his presidency was ineffective.   11. What was a goal of the Ku Klux Klan?     A) to promote economic recovery in the South     B) to prevent freed African Americans from voting     C) to help African Americans adjust to freedom     D) to help federal troops govern the South   12. Why did the Radical Republicans begin to lose power in Congress?     A) Radical Republicans wanted to withdraw federal troops from the South.     B) Ulysses S. Grant lost the election in 1872.     C) The Liberal Republicans supported Ulysses S. Grant for president in 1872.     D) Northerners were becoming weary of Radical Reconstruction.   13. Why was Rutherford B. Hayes named president?     A) Hayes won more electoral votes than his opponent.     B) Members of the electoral commission voted along party lines.     C) Hayes won more popular votes than his opponent in the general election.     D) The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hayes.   14. What was the purpose of the "Jim Crow" laws passed in the South?     A) to require that all people have access to public places and transportation     B) to make segregation illegal     C) to legally segregate African Americans from whites in daily life     D) to protect the civil rights of African Americans   15. To what does the term "Solid South" refer?     A) a Republican voting bloc in the South     B) a Democratic voting bloc in the South     C) the industrialization of the South     D) the continued improvement in the lives of African Americans