Social Studies-Reconstruction Check

What was the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

• to create equality for all Americans

• to ensure equal distribution of power between National and State government.

• to limit the power of the federal government

• to give all people the right to vote

Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with

• his idea for instituting an income tax.

• how to draft more men into the Union Army.

• re-admitting Southern states into the Union.

• his quest to reconquer only 10% of the South

Which Amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 3rd

The speech above shows that Lincoln believed that the South should--

• be allowed to continue the practice of slavery
• pay for the damages suffered by the Union
• receive fair treatment after the war
• be punished for seceding from the Union

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Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared --

• United State's freedom from Great Britain
• an end to the Civil War
• freedom for slaves in rebellious southern states
• the beginning of Reconstruction

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The Union General that forced General Lee to surrender at Appomattox.

• Fort Sumter
• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant

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War between people of the same country

• secede
• state's rights
• civil war
• slavery

President of the U.S. during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the states that seceded.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

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Which of the following is an effect of the Civil War?

• the Missouri Compromise
• Bleeding Kansas
• the Gettysburg Address
• Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant had a significant role in the Civil War. What was his role?

• General of the Union Army
• General of the Confederate Army
• President of the Union
• President of the Confederate