Reconstruction: Lesson 1 (Presidential Reconstruction)

The effort to reorganize the Southern states and bring them back into the Union after the Civil War was _____.

• Reconstruction

• Rehabilitation

• Reorganization

• Restoration

President Lincoln believed that punishing the South would only delay healing the nation, so he offered a _____ to all Southerners who were willing to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States.

• pardon

• pass

• reprieve

• sentence

After Lincoln was assassinated, the new president, _____, adopted a plan to rebuild the South modeled after Lincoln's.

• Gordon Granger

• Andrew J. Hamilton

• Andrew Johnson

• James W. Throckmorton

Under the Presidential Reconstruction plan to rejoin the Union, each former Confederate state had to ratify the _____ Amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the nation.

• 11th

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

On June 19, 1865 a large Union force commanded by ____ arrived at Galveston to take control of the state and declare that all enslaved Texans were free.

• Gordon Granger

• Andrew J. Hamilton

• John B. Magruder

• Elisha M. Pease

To help former enslaved people, the U.S. Congress created the _____.

• black codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• NAACP

• provisional government

President Andrew Johnson appointed _____, a former congressman who had to flee from Texas during the war, as provisional governor of Texas.

• Gordon Granger

• Andrew J. Hamilton

• Elisha M. Pease

• James W. Throckmorton

The voters of Texas approved the Constitution of 1866 and elected _____, a former Confederate general, as governor.

• Andrew J. Hamilton

• John B. Magruder

• Edmund Kirby Smith

• James W. Throckmorton

The Texas Constitution of 1866 did not grant African American Texans equal rights, but it did _____.

• end slavery

• give them land

• give them the vote

• pay them reparations

The Texas legislature enacted laws called _____ that restricted the rights of freed people.

• black codes

• fugitive slave laws

• Intolerable Acts

• preventative measures