Reconstruction Quiz

Example Questions From the Test

• 1Southern political groups called Redeemers gained power during the 1870s. What was a central goal associated with them?
  • Expanding federal land redistribution to formerly enslaved families
  • Ending Republican Reconstruction governments and restoring conservative white Democratic control
  • Strengthening military enforcement of Black voting rights
  • Creating a new national party led by freedpeople
• 2Federal officials seek legal authority to prosecute groups using violence and intimidation to prevent Black citizens from voting. Which Reconstruction measures most directly supported this response?
  • The Enforcement Acts
  • The Compromise of 1877
  • The Missouri Compromise
  • The Pendleton Civil Service Act
• 3Congress wants to establish national citizenship and protect formerly enslaved people’s ability to make contracts, own property, and use the courts. Which measure most directly pursued these goals before the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified?
  • The Wade-Davis Bill
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  • The Dawes Act
  • The Sherman Antitrust Act