Reconstruction

Which group most directly affected by Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?

• slaves in border states that remained loyal to the Union

• slaves in all areas conquered by Union armies

• slaves in confederate states

• free blacks in the North

What key concept is addressed by 13th Amendment?

• establishing free public schools

• lowering the voting age to 18

• prohibiting the sale alcohol

• abolishing slavery

What did Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction require?

• refusing to allow Confederate soldiers and supporters town land

• forbidding the right of the due process to Confederate states.

• 10% of the voters in each Southern state to swear an oathof loyalty to the US.

• denying pardons to Confederate soldiers

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

• John Wilkes Booth

• Aaron Burr

• Jefferson Davis

• Thaddeus Stevens

Who became president after the assassination of Lincoln?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Hannibal Hamlin

• James Buchanan

What action was taken against Andrew Johnson in 1868?

• removal from office

• impeachment

• deportation

• censure

What right was granted by the 15th amendment?

• right to trial by jury

• freedom from slavery

• right to vote regardless of race

• citizenship for all immigrants

What were former slaves commonly called after the civil war?

• vigilantes

• scalawags

• freedmen

• carpetbaggers

What term was applied to white southerners who sided wit Radical Reconstruction?

• vigilantes

• scalawags

• freedmen

• carpetbaggers

Whose election to the presidency in 1876 ended the Reconstruction?

• Andrew Johnson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Samuel Tilden

• Ulysses S. Grant