The Reconstruction Era

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 period after the Civil War when the United States started to rebuild was called

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

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Livingston

• Andrew Young

President Andrew Johnson was a

• Southern Democrat

• Southern Republican

• Northern Republican

• Northern Democrat

What did white Southerners think of Pres. Johnson?

• They thought he was a great man

• They thought he was crazy

• They thought he was a traitor

• They thought he was beautiful

The Freedman's Bureau assisted blacks and

• paid taxes for sharecroppers

• helped poor whites

• closed down schools

• voted for Pres. Lincoln

What amendment ended slavery?

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

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