Reconstruction Plan Review

Reconstruction Plan Review

Lincoln's Plan

• 10 percent of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the union

• Amnesty (forgiveness) to all white southerners who swore loyalty to union (not Confederate leaders)

• Former Confederates leaders denied the right to hold office.

• 13th Amendment- banned slavery

• Freedmen’s Bureau- this organization provided food, jobs and education to newly freed slaves

Radical Republicans

• 14th Amendment- Citizenship for all born in U.S.; equal protection. Southern States had to ratify (approve in order to be admitted back to the union)

• 15th Amendment- right to vote for all men over 21

• 5 Military Districts- South divided into military districts; protect freedmen from Ku Klux Klan; help southern states come back into union

Johnson's Plan

• 13th Amendment (abolish slavery) had to be ratified for states to be readmitted into the union

• Johnson opposed equal rights for African-Americans- no desire to help freedmen

  
  

• “White men alone must manage the South”

• Plan would grant amnesty (forgiveness) to most southerners after they swore loyalty to the union

Andrew Johnson vs Radical Republicans

• They had different views on reconstruction and who they supported.

• Johnson was impeached by the Radical Republicans

Sharecropping

• Winners: Plantation Owners

• Losers: Freedmen and poor white southerners who were the sharecroppers

• The sharecroppers could never get out of debt to the plantation owners.

• This debt was passed from generation to generation.

• Plantation owners were always making money off the sharecroppers while the sharecroppers struggled. 

Multiple Choice

System of farming where plantation owners would lend former slaves a place to live in exchange for farming crops

• Sharecropping
• Freedmen's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws
• Slavery

Multiple Choice

What plan of Reconstruction would allow the white population to control the political power in the South.

• Lincolns Plan

• Johnsons Plan

• Radical Republican Plan

• 10% Plan

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about sharecropping

• Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

• Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

• Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

• Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

Multiple Choice

What was president Lincoln's plans for the South after the Civil War?

• He wanted white men to have all the power in the south

• He wanted to punish the south.

• He wanted to help freedman by creating the Freedman's Bureau.

• He wanted to heal, forgive, and rebuild the south.

Multiple Choice

Which Reconstruction plan wanted to punish the South?

• Abraham Lincoln's Plan

• Andrew Johnson's Plan

• Radical Republican's Plan

Multiple Choice

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• made slavery illegal
• made former slaves citizens and gave them rights
• gave black men the right to vote
• gave former slaves land to begin farms

Multiple Choice

Which reconstruction plan sought to help newly freed African Americans? 

• Abraham Lincoln's 10% Plan
• Radical Republicans Plan
• Andrew Johnson's Plan
• The Reconstruction Plan

Multiple Choice

The Military Reconstruction Act divided the former Confederate states into 

• 4 Congressional Districts
• 5 Military Districts
• 6 Senate Zones
• 5 Reconstruction Zones

Multiple Choice

Why were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments added to the Constitution?

• To provide equal rights to African American citizens.
• To legalize discrimination and segregation.
• To provide equal rights to White citizens.
• To help African Americans pay their poll taxes. 

Multiple Choice

Who did the Radical Republicans  impeach?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Rutherford B. Hayes

Multiple Choice

This Reconstruction plan said a state could rejoin if 10% of its population swore an oath of loyalty

• Lincoln's Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• Radical Republican's Plan
• Grant's Plan

Multiple Choice

When farmers rented land in exchange for crops, this was known as ___________________.

• carpetbagging
• segregation
• sharecropping
• crop sharing 

Multiple Choice

A government agency provided food, housing, education, healthcare, and employment opportunities to newly freed slaves.

• 13th Amendment
• Sharecropping
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Jim Crow Laws

Multiple Choice

What is the amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color or previous servitude?

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Multiple Choice

What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Who took the office of President after President Lincoln was assassinated?

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following were laws that limited people's rights during Reconstruction?

• black codes

• fourteenth amendment

• Compromise of 1850

• Civil Rights Acts of 1866

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of groups like the Ku Klux Klan?

• To make fun of people they believed were different

• To murder all African-Americans

• To intimidate African-Americans from exercising their new Constitutional rights

• To increase immigration to America

Multiple Choice

What does this photo say about how newly freed slaves were treated during Reconstruction?

• The freedmen were embraced by the South following the Civil War.

• Groups such as the KKK attempted terrorize the freedman and wanted to limit their newly gained rights.

• Freedmen were provided more opportunities

• Whites worked with African Americans to fix the problems of the South

Multiple Choice

Which of the following did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.

• Laid the groundwork for a future constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.

• Allowed for African American men to fight in the Union army.

• All of the above