Reconstruction

The Freedmen's Bureau was originally established to provide

• job registration.

• food, clothing, and education for emancipated slaves.

• land, supplies, and seed for black farmers.

• transportation and assistance in reuniting separated family members.

Lincoln's original plan or Reconstruction in 1863 was that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when

• 10% of its voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union and pledged to abide by emancipation.

• it repealed its original secession act and withdrew its soldiers from the Confederate Army.

• it ratified the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.

• it formally adopted a plan guaranteeing black political and economic rights.

The focus of the black community life after emancipation became the

• black schools.

• black church.

• Freedmen's Bureau.

• the state Senate.

Derogatory term for Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction and sometimes took part in Republican state governments.

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Redeemers

Congressional law that imposed military rule on the South and demanded harsh conditions for readmission of the seceded states.

• Force Acts of 1870 and 1871

• Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Wade Davis Bill

• Union League

Which of the following was NOT among the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Repudiation of any confederate debts.

• Citizenship and full civil rights (except voting) for former slaves.

• Elimination of one senator from each southern state until Reconstruction was complete.

• Reduction in Congressional representation and Electoral College vote for state that did not let blacks vote.

In contrast to radical Republicans, moderate Republicans generlly

• favored states' rights and opposed direct federal involvement in individuals' lives.

• favored the use of federal power to alter the Southern economic system.

• favored emanciaption but opposed the 14th Amendment.

• favored returning the Southern states to the Union without sigificant Reconstruction,

Laudatory term for white southerners who worked to overthrow Reconstruction and establish Home Rule regimes in the Southern states.

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Redeemers

• Freedmen

The radical Republicans' impeachment of President Andrew Johnson resulted in

• Johnson's acceptance of the radicals' Reconstruction plan.

• a revision in the impeachment clause of the Constitution to make such an act more difficult.

• Johnson's resignation and appointment of Ulyssess Grant as his successor.

• a failure to convict and remove Johnson from the presidency by a margin of only one vote.

Blacks who left the South for Kansas and elsewhere during Reconstruction.

• Scalawags

• Contraband

• Exodusters

• Carpetbaggers