Reconstruction Era - C14

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Which of the following describes Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan, which he announced in December 1863? Lincoln created the plan to appeal to southern Democrats, many of whom had served with Lincoln in Congress., The plan declared that a state could reorganize its government when 50 percent of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union., It specified that a state could return to the Union when 10 percent of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union., The plan offered general amnesty to all Confederate citizens who agreed to comply with federal laws.

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It specified that a state could return to the Union when 10 percent of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union.

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Which of the following statements describes the Freedmen’s Bureau, which originated in 1865? It was originally proposed in Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan, which Congress defeated., Created by Congress, it offered aid to displaced blacks and other war refugees., Created by private citizens, the agency provided aid to former slaves., Founded by ex-Confederate states, the organization helped rebuild the South.

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Created by Congress, it offered aid to displaced blacks and other war refugees.

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Which of the following scenarios took place in the federal government immediately after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in April 1866? Options: Radical Republicans formulated a plan to seek Johnson’s impeachment. Republicans introduced an amendment declaring that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” were citizens. Republican leaders decided that they had accomplished all they could before the midterm election. Congressional Republicans enacted the Freedmen’s Bureau law over Johnson’s veto.

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Republicans introduced an amendment declaring that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” were citizens.

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Which of the following statements describes Radical Reconstruction? Options: It demonstrated that even Radical Republicans would sacrifice the rights of freed slaves. The program gave each freed slave forty acres of land and a mule. It aimed to reform the South and increase federal power. There was no way the South could have avoided the institution of Radical Reconstruction.

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It aimed to reform the South and increase federal power.

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Granting suffrage to African American males caused

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a split in the women’s movement.

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Which of the following statements describes the resettlement of former slaves in the South? Options: Bands of ex-Confederate soldiers and plantation owners drove African Americans from the confiscated land that they were occupying. Under Johnson’s amnesty plan, ex-Confederates were allowed to recover their land, and freedmen were forced to work for them or leave. The Freedmen’s Bureau permanently resettled 10,000 African American families on “Sherman lands.” Every former slave was given forty acres and a mule in compensation for their years of forced labor.

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Under Johnson’s amnesty plan, ex-Confederates were allowed to recover their land, and freedmen were forced to work for them or leave.

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Which of these statements describes the status of African American women in the Reconstruction-era South? Most freedmen refused to allow their wives to work alongside them in the fields., Freedwomen valued their new right to marry legally and their opportunity to create a stable family life., In the Reconstruction-era South, freedwomen had the same rights and status as freedmen., Emancipation may have increased the subordination of African American women in the black household.

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Freedwomen valued their new right to marry legally and their opportunity to create a stable family life.

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Which statement describes the sharecropping system that emerged to replace slavery in the South after the Civil War? Options: Most sharecroppers believed it was preferable to a wage labor system., Sharecroppers were often worse off than slaves had been., It created an equal partnership between tenant farmer and owner., Through sharecropping, freed slaves were able to advance very well economically.

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Sharecroppers were often worse off than slaves had been.

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Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1875 significant?

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The legislation was the last congressional effort to address civil rights until the 1960s.

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What was the initial goal of the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1866?

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To use any means to damage the Republican government of Tennessee