Unit 9 Assessment - Reconstruction

Which of the following events is being described in the box to the right?

• The Battle of Gettysburg

• The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The use of the Anaconda Plan

When Andrew Johnson became president, he showed that he had different views on reconstruction than Lincoln. Which of the following explains these differing views?

• He believed half of the population of each southern state should vote on new state constitutions.

• He believed in a strong federal government and African Americans should become political leaders.

• He believed the military should govern the southern states until they fixed their economies.

• He believed more in state’s rights and African Americans should not get the vote.

In order to free all African Americans from slavery, which action occurred?

• The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
• Congress passed a law ending slavery.
• President Lincoln announced their freedom.
• The southern legislatures were forced to accept the Emancipation Proclamation.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provided that African Americans be

• treated without discrimination.

• segregated from whites.

• granted citizenship

• freed from slavery.

How did southern states respond to the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• By creating a segregated public education system

• By shutting down all remaining offices of Freedmen’s Bureau

• By forcing African Americans to work as tenant farmers and sharecroppers

• By imposing requirements designed to deny African Americans the right to vote

“I was working for Mr. T. L. Kearny on the morning of the day of election... he came out to the stable where I was attending the horses and advised me to go to the polls and exercise a citizen’s privilege,”

--Thomas Peterson, 1870

The information above is describing

• the 13thAmendment.

• the 14thAmendment.

• the 15thAmendment.

• the Tenure of Office Act.

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?

• the Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War

• the popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the ratification of the Compromise of 1877

• the opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

Which issue brought about conflict between Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans?

• whether he should succeed to the Presidency after Lincoln’s death

• how to punish the people involved in the plot to assassinate Lincoln

• Johnson’s plan was more lenient toward former Confederate leaders and states

• whether the freed slaves should be allowed into the North

What statement completes the comparison?

• Put southern states under military governments until the 14th and 15th Amendments were ratified.

• Required southern white males to take a loyalty oath and state legislatures to ratify the 13th Amendment.

• Changed the boundaries of some of the southern states so they lost representation in Congress.

• Allowed southern states back into the Union after they had paid for the costs of the war.

How were former Confederate leaders treated under the Radical Reconstruction plan?

• They were denied the ability to obtain political positions.

• They were required to enlist in the U.S. Army for two years.

• They were allowed to obtain federal loans to help restore the cotton industry.

• They were denied citizenship because it was believed they had started the war.