After the Civil War:Reconstruction

Was the period after the Civil War where the United States started to rebuild.

• Reconstruction
• Industrial Era
• Golden Age
• Great Depression

Pres. Lincoln was in favor of a lenient reconstruction plan because

• He believed it was constitutionally impossible for the states to leave the Union, so they never actually left the Union
• He was really a Southern sympathizer
• He wanted to gain support for reelection 
• He didn't want to start another Civil War

In Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, Confederates had to 

• Swear allegiance to the Union 
• Leave the southern states and move north
• Serve time as slaves
• Ask for forgiveness 

Who were the first states who moved toward readmission to the Union?

• Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Virginia 
• Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia
• South Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma and Virginia
• West Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri and Florida

Who was angered with Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan?

• The Radical Republicans
• The Dynamic Democrats
• The Southern Mayor's Union
• The Former Slaves

What did the Radical Republicans want to give African Americans?

• 40 acres and a mule
• Full Citizenship and right to vote
• A weekly paycheck
• Jobs to take care of their family

Who thought that the Ten Percent Plan was too easy on the Confederate States?

• Pres. Abraham Lincoln
• The Radical Republicans
• The Ku Klux Klan
• The Former Slaves

What bill proposed that Congress, not the President, be responsible for Reconstruction

• 15th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• Wade-Davis Bill
• Bill of Rights

What did the Wade-Davis Bill declare?

• That a state needed a majority, not just ten percent of people to swear allegiance to the Union
• That all slaves in Confederate States were now free
• That white slave owners must pay money to their former slaves
• That the government has the right to take land

What did Pres. Lincoln do to the Wade-Davis Bill?

• He supported it
• He passed it
• He wrote it
• He vetoed it