Reconstruction

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 vote
• 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 groups during the Reconstruction Era?

• Radical Democrats
• Abraham Lincoln
• Radical Republicans
• Andrew Johnson

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.
• did not punish the Southern states that rebelled against the Union.
• were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.

In 1866, a group formed in Tennesse to fight against the rising influence of African Americans in the South. Members of this group often turned to violence and intimidation, What was the name of this controversial group?

• Sons of the Confederacy
• Neo-Nazis
• Ku Klux Klan
• Black Separatists

The period after the Civil War where the United States started to rebuild and reunite is called. . . . 

• Reconstruction
• Industrial Era
• Golden Age
• Great Depression

Who took the office of President after Pres. Lincoln was killed?

• Andrew Jackson
• Andrew Johnson
• Andrew Livingston
• Andrew Young