Reconstruction Review

The 13th amendment to the Constitution was the first of the "Reconstruction Amendments," What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give women the right to vote
• to allow the Confederate States to re-enter the Union
• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to abolish slavery

The 15th amendment to the Constitution was the last of the "Reconstruction Amendments," and it was ratified in 1870.  What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vot
• 
  to establish a federal income tax
• 
  to give women the right to vote
• to officially end the "Reconstruction Era"

Strict punishment of Confederate veterans and financial assistance to African Americans were policies pushed by which of the following group during the Reconstruction Era?

• 
  Radical Democrats
• Moderate Republicans
• Radical Republicans
• Moderate Democrats

The 14th amendment to the Constitution was the second of the "Reconstruction Amendments." What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to give all American citizens equal protection under the law
• to abolish slavery
• 
  to officially terminate the government of the Confederate States of America

One of the most heavily debated programs of Reconstruction was the Freedman's Bureau.  While it had mixed results, the primary goal of this program was to:  

• prevent the African American population from voting in federal elections.
• establish the "sharecropping" system to make sure that white farmers continued to employ African Americans.
• provide newly freed slaves with food, shelter, work, and education.
• to enforce "Black Codes," or laws that treated African Americans as second-class citizens

Which of the following men assassinated President Abraham Lincoln only two weeks after the Civil War ended?

• John Wilkes Booth
  
• Edwin Stanton
• Thaddeus Stevens
• Samual Tilden

The members of Congress battled with both presidents because they felt that the Presidential Reconstruction Plans:

• were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.
• were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.
• were too lenient on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.
• were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.

Which of the following describes Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan?

• A Confederate state could re-enter the Union whenever it repaid 10 percent of the damages that were suffered in the state during the Civil War
• A Confederate state could re-enter the Union 10 percent of the states already included in the United States agreed that it could enter.
• A Confederate state could re-enter the Union only if it agreed that it would be given 10 percent less representation in the federal government than it had prior to the Civil War
• A Confederate state could re-enter the Union whenever 10 percent of its voters took a vow of allegiance to the United States

Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction Acts placed all Confederate states, except Tennessee, under military rule.  They also stated that a South Carolina citizen could NOT vote if he had:

• had provided aid to the Union Army during the war
• held public office or fought as a Confederate
• had held federal office prior to the war.
• owned slaves and a large plantation (over 100 acres).

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th