Reconstruction

What Amendment was passed to guarantee African American men the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 16th

• 15th

Which Amendment prohibits slavery?

• 15th

• 14th

• 13th

• 16th

Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?

• 14th
• 15th
• 16th
• 13th

Strict punishment of Confederate veterans and financial assistance to African Americans were policies pushed by which of the following group during the Reconstruction Era?

• 
  Radical Democrats
• Moderate Republicans
• Radical Republicans
• Moderate Democrats

Which of the following was NOT a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South
• Bring back the Southern economy
• Develop the economic system of sharecropping for freedmen
• Determine what to do with 4 million freed African Americans

Reconstruction was the process of

• rebuilding the South after the Civil War
• creating land zones for freedmen after the Civil War
• instituting Black Codes for former slaves
• eliminating the plantation economy in the South

Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster opposed the “Great Nullifier” John Calhoun, calling instead for

• Southern states to secede from the Union, which he believed unfairly restricted the rights of slaveholders.

• national unity.

• Southern states to secede from the Union, which he believed unfairly restricted the rights of slaveholders.

The Compromise of 1850 sought to settle disputes between north and south after the US acquired new territories in the Mexican-American War. It admitted California into the Union as a free state but also included a strict Fugitive Slave Law. What was the reaction to this compromise?

• The Compromise eased tensions between the North and South and led to a brief period of harmony before the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• The angry reactions on both the northern and southern sides led to even more division in the US and continued to set the stage for the Civil War.

• Southern slaveholders were more outraged about the compromise, while people in the north did not find it objectionable.

William Lloyd Garrison created The Liberator, which was

• an influential abolitionist novel that preceded Uncle Tom’s Cabin by ten years

• an abolitionist newspaper.

• a weekly journal that sought to unite pro- and anti-slavery advocates.

What is the difference between antislavery and abolition?

• Antislavery advocates did not want slavery to spread any further (for example, to new states admitted to the Union) while abolitionists wanted an immediate end to slavery everywhere.

• Antislavery advocates believed that slavery was morally wrong, while abolitionists did not.

• Antislavery advocates wanted to confine slavery to the border states, while abolitionists wanted an immediate end to slavery everywhere.