Chapter 10 Reconstruction

President Johnson, unlike Lincoln, believed a radical policy was needed to bring the South back into the Union

• T

• F

2. By the end of 1868, none of the former Confederate states had met all the requirements to be readmitted to the Union.

• T

• F

3. When the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Johnson, the main charge was that he had broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act.

• T

• F

4. In 1865 many members of Congress were hopeful Southern voters would elect former Confederate officers and political leaders to Congress.

• T

• F

5. The black codes varied from state to state, but they all seemed intended to keep African Americans in a condition similar to slavery

• T

• F

6. The actions of the Freedmen’s Bureau helped to prevent

• A. economic recovery.

• B. mass starvation.

• C. plantation labor.

• D. special courts.

________ 7. President Johnson proclaimed that each former Confederate state had to call a constitutional convention to revoke its ordinance of secession and ratify the

• A. Fifteenth Amendment.

• B. Fourteenth Amendment.

• C. Military Reconstruction Act.

• D. Thirteenth Amendment

8.The effort to rebuild the South after the Civil War was referred to as

• A.Reconstruction.

• B.War Reparations.

• C.the Jim Crow Laws.

• D.Confederate Rebuilding.

12.The South would not be able to maintain its agricultural output until it developed a new system to replace

• A.cotton gins.

• B.plantations.

• C.enslaved labor.

• D.cotton with another cash crop.

13.Which group would not be allowed to vote or hold elective office under the provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill?

• A.African Americans

• B.former Confederate soldiers

• C.plantation owners

• D.former Confederate government officials