Reconstruction

What

was the purpose of the 14th amendment?

• It granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and stated that no state could deny any person equal protection of the laws.

• It granted African Americans the right to vote.

• It granted African Americans jobs in the government.

What was the purpose of the 15th amendment?

• It granted African Americans the right to vote.

• It granted citizenship to all males born or naturalized in the United States and stated that no state could deny any person equal protection of the laws unless they had a good reason.

• It granted African Americans jobs in the government.

To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and

• pay damages to the North.

• promise never to secede again.

• accept that slaves were now free.

President Andrew Johnson believed that the ____ caused the Civil War.

• Southern politicians

• rich planter elite

• Radical Republicans in Congress

Several Republican senators joined with the Democrats in voting not to remove President Johnson from office because they believed

• the president should have the right to choose his own cabinet.

• the actions he took did not constitute “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

• he did not do the acts with which he was charged.

The goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to

• drive out all Northern influences and return to a plantation system in the South.

• terrorize African American freedmen to force them to move to the North.

• drive out Union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party.

Under Johnson’s Reconstruction plan, many members of Congress voted to reject the representatives that Southern voters elected to Congress because they

• were African Americans.

• were rich planters.

• were former Confederate leaders.

The main charge at President Johnson’s impeachment trial was that he had

• broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act.

• violated the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing black codes to stand.

• broken the law by issuing pardons to Confederate leaders.

What is the time period following the Civil War known as?

• Progressivism

• the Renaissance

• Reconstruction

All of the following are true of the South after the Civil War EXCEPT

• religiously uplifted

• physically damaged

• economically destroyed