Chapter 11- Rebuilding a Divided Nation: Sections 1 and 2

The time period after the Civil War is called

• the years after the Civil War

• Reconsructtion

• the Post-Civil War Era

Lincoln wanted Southern states to give African Americans the right to

• vote

• own property

• go to school

President Johnson's plan required the South to

• give African Americans the right to vote

• pay for Reconstruction

• ratify the 13th Amendment

The 13th Amendment

• ended slavery

• gave women the right to vote

• granted freedom of religion

Who wanted to punish former Confederate leaders?

• Lincoln

• Radical Republicans

• Johnson

Under Lincoln's plan, Southerners had to take a

• test about the Civil War

• lie detector test

• loyalty oath

Southern laws created to limit the freedom of African Americans were known as

• black rules

• black laws

• black codes

Civil rights are rights belonging to

• only men

• all citizens

• only government leaders

President Johnson _____________ the Civil Rights Act, he refused to sign it.

• vetoed

• threw out

• spit on

the 14th Amendment said

• State's cannot take away a citizen's right

• All people born in the U.S. are citizens

• States cannot take African American voting rights

• Former Confederate leaders cannot hold office

• All of the above