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Reconstruction 1

Authored by Joe Moncrief

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6th - 8th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What years did Reconstruction span?

1863-1877

1865-1876

1866-1877

1866-1880

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

What was the "ten percent" in Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

A former Confederate state could rejoin the Union when ten percent of its wartime debt had been repaid.

A former Confederate state could rejoin the Union when ten percent of its wartime leadership was turned over to federal authorities.

A former Confederate state could rejoin the Union when ten percent of the voters who were eligible in 1860 swore an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and accepted the abolition of slavery.

A former Confederate state could rejoin the Union when ten percent of its former slaves had presented themselves to federal authorities to prove they had been freed, as required by the Thirteenth Amendment.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

How did Lincoln deal with the Wade-Davis Bill, which disfranchised a large number of ex-Confederates and required a majority of whites in each southern state to swear loyalty to the Union?

He refused to sign it into law.

He convinced a majority of Republican senators to defeat the bill.

He called a special session of Congress and addressed the body himself to dissuade its passage.

He exercised a pocket veto.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

What were Johnson's beliefs about black suffrage?

He supported it wholeheartedly.

He was ambivalent; his focus was on punishing white southern plantation owners.

Sometimes he supported it and other times he did not. It usually depended upon the audience.

He rejected it outright.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

Which state was NOT affected by the passage of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, the act which brought control of Reconstruction firmly into the hands of Congress?

Georgia

Florida

Tennessee

South Carolina

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Which Reconstruction amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision?

Thirteenth

Fourteenth

Fifteenth

None of the Reconstruction amendments overturned the Dred Scott decision.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following best describes the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau?

It was the first large-scale federal welfare program in the U.S., assisting both blacks and whites.

It was limited to the establishment of black schools and enforcing contracts between freedpeople and landowners.

It distributed "forty acres and a mule" to the freedpeople, but on a very limited scale.

It distributed rations and established hospitals, but anything beyond that was simply not possible with its very limited budget and total lack of congressional support.

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