Reconstruction and Collapse

The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited

• discrimination.

• war.

• secession.

• slavery.

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

• promise never to secede again

• accept that slaved people were now free.

• set up schools for freedmen.

• pay damages to the North.

What amendment guaranteed the "equal protection" of the laws to all American citizens?

• 1st

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which is the best definition of a scalawag during the reconstruction period?

• a northerner abolitionist who supported the Freedmen's Bureau

• a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction

• a freedman entitled to vote

• a northerner who came to the South after the Civil War

What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage?

• Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South

• Freedmen played an important role in local and state government

• Freedmen achieved economic independence from their former masters

• Freedmen often remained in a stat of economic dependence on their former masters

Which two groups most helped the freedmen during the Reconstruction Era?

• Radical Republicans and Carpetbaggers

• North-en Democrats and KKK

• Southern Democrats and supporters of Black Codes

• Confederate veterans and supporters of President Johnson

It would be over __________ years before many southern blacks would regain rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th amendments after the collapse of reconstruction.

• 8

• 80

• 800

• 8000

President Johnson was

• Impeached and removed from office

• Impeached but not removed from office

• Neither Impeached nor Removed

• Removed but never impeached

Ultimately most of Lincoln's 10% plan was enacted.

• True

• False

The Compromise of 1877 was..

• Known as the 'Great Compromise'

• The end of Reconstruction

• Good for southern black voters

• Necessary to enforce the 14th amendment