Reconstruction Quiz #2

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 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

The primary goal of the Freedman's Bureau 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

Who wanted to readmit states to the Union when 10% of the voters took an oath of allegiance?

• Andrew Johnson
• Andrew Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Radical Republicans

This strict plan required states to ratify the 14th amendment. It also divided the South into 5 military districts controlled by a General and Federal troops to protect freed slaves

• Lincoln's Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• Radical Republicans
• Wade-Davis Bill

These were laws designed to keep blacks separated from and inferior to whites 

• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction
• Black Codes
• 14th Amendment

Scalawags were

• Southern White Republicans
• Southern Democrats
• Northerners who moved south
• Johnson supporters

The election of which president ended the Reconstruction period?

• Hayes
• Grant
• Obama
• NONE OF THESE