6.3 Test Review

The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was due to

• charges that he had lied under oath about Reconstruction laws.
• his involvement in the Confederate military during the Civil War.     
• a struggle between Congress and President over governmental power.
• his actions as a "Radical Republican" during the Reconstruction Era. 

What conclusion can be drawn from the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

• The passage of the amendments was to strengthen the Bill of Rights.
• The passage of the amendments was to weaken the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the North
• The passage of the amendments was to weaken the Jim Crow laws that were passed in the South.
• The passage of the amendments was to abolish slavery and establish rights to previous slaves.

Which of these groups was promised "Forty Acres and a Mule" after the Civil War?

• Scalawags
• former slaves
• Carpetbaggers
• former Confederates

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes

• protected the Constitutional rights and liberties of freed slaves.
• forced Congress to do the bidding of former Confederate politicians.     
• were enacted by the Radical Republicans to prevent racial discrimination in the South.
• were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.

What group was created in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Know Nothing Party
• White Citizen Councils

-Established by Congress on March 3, 1865
-Provided employment and medical assistance to former slaves
-Trained teachers and built over 1,000 schools
-Disbanded in 1869 due to a lack of success and funding

• Jim Crow laws.
• the Black Codes.
• the Freedman's Bureau.       
• Presidential Reconstruction.

Following the Civil War, the Radical Republicans in Congress

• allowed the South to pass the Black Codes.
• pardoned southern leaders for Civil War actions.
• hoped to reunite the country as quickly as possible.                
• regarded the southern states as conquered territory.

A major area of disagreement between Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans was that

• Lincoln wanted to see the Democratic Party restored to power as quickly as possible.
• Lincoln wanted the South to be treated as conquered territory for as long as possible.
• the Radicals saw Lincoln as a Civil War enthusiast and the cause of the entire Civil War.
• Lincoln felt that Reconstruction was primarily the pardoning of individuals, a presidential power.

Presidential Reconstruction following the American Civil War can BEST be described as

• a plan to fix the damage to the White House caused by the Civil War.
• a desire to rebuild the southern states quickly to help control the economy.               
• a desire to rebuild the country quickly and without ill feelings following the war.       
• a desire to punish those southerners responsible for causing and/or prolonging the war.

What was the role of Ulysses S. Grant in ending Reconstruction?

• He signed Executive Order 9066 which officially ended Reconstruction.         
• He was commanding the Southern troops and resisted giving up command.
• He negotiated the settlement between Radical and Moderate Republicans.
• He removed troops from Florida as stipulated in the Compromise of 1877.