Ordeal of Reconstruction 3

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

• citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves.

• land for former slaves.

• voting rights for former Confederates who had previously served in the U.S. Army.

• freed slaves the right to vote.

• education to former slaves.

The Fourteenth Amendment

• required former Confederate states to pay their war debts.

• prohibited ex-Confederate leaders from holding public office.

• guaranteed freed slaves the right to vote.

• met all the demands of the radical Republicans.

• made women as well as blacks U.S. citizens.

In the 1866 congressional elections

• President Johnson conducted a highly successful “swing around the circle” campaign tour promoting his policies.

• radicals replaced moderates as the dominant Republican faction in Congress.

• voters endorsed the congressional approach to Reconstruction.

• Republicans lost their majority control of Congress.

• a substantial number of white southern Republicans were elected to Congress.

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when

• the South accepted the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.

• the last federal troops were removed in 1877.

• President Johnson was not reelected in 1868.

• the Supreme Court ruled in Ex parte Milligan that military tribunals could not try civilians.

• blacks showed they could defend their rights without federal intervention.

Which of the following was not one of the Reconstruction-era constitutional amendments?

• Twelfth

• Thirteenth

• Fourteenth

• Fifteenth

• All were reconstruction amendments

Many feminist leaders were deeply disappointed with the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments because they

• gave black women but not white women the right to vote.

• failed to give women the right to serve on juries.

• contained restrictions on ex-Confederates but not on male supremacists.

• failed to define what constituted equal national citizenship.

• specified for the first time in the Constitution that only males could vote.

During Reconstruction, African American women assumed new political roles, which included all of the following except

• participating in black church life.

• monitoring state constitutional conventions.

• participating in political rallies.

• organizing mass meetings.

• voting.

Which one of the following is least related to the other four?

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan

• Carpetbaggers

• Freedmen

• Union League

Radical Reconstruction state governments

• did little of value.

• passed much desirable legislation and badly needed reforms.

• were more corrupt than Northern state governments.

• had all of their reforms repealed by the all-white “redeemer governments.”

• failed to address the issue of education.

Political corruption during Reconstruction was

• primarily the fault of white carpetbaggers and scalawags.

• located in the North.

• common in both North and South.

• present in all Southern states except South Carolina and Louisiana.

• almost entirely conducted by blacks.