Reconstruction Review

Lincoln's plan to admit Southern states back into the Union.

• Civil Rights Plan

• 25% Plan

• 10% Plan

• Reconstruction Plan

Which organization provided former slaves with food, educational opportunities, and legal aid?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Organization of Freedom

• Free R We

• Union Army

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

• The South would be divided into military districts.

• Southern states had to pass the 14th Amendment.

• All African American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.

Why did the federal government eventually send troops into the South?

• To keep Confederate veterans from forming a new Southern army.

• To limit acts of violence and voter intimidation against Black people.

• To protect the land farmed by Black sharecroppers.

• To put down riots during the Panic of 1873.

To curb violence of the KKK in the South, Congress passed the:

• Freedmen's Bureau Act

• Amnesty Act

• Enforcement Acts of 1870 &1871

• Reconstruction Act of 1870

In 1872, congress passed the Amnesty Act. Which of the following was a part of that act?

• Pardoned 160,000 Confederates of war crimes.

• Gave all African Americans the right to vote.

• Returned the right to vote to about 160,000 former Confederates.

• Allowed African Americans to travel free from state to state.

President Johnson and Radical Republicans agreed on most Reconstruction policies and programs.

• True

• False

Hayes became president in 1876 after a deal was made between Republicans and Democrats to remove federal troops from the South.

• True

• False

This U.S. president did not support Reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans and was impeached in 1868.

• Ulysses Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

Why did Radical Republicans in Congress oppose Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

• He called for imprisonment of Confederate leaders.

• He rejected the idea of harsh punishments for the South.

• He planned to keep Northern troops in the South.

• He demanded immediate political rights to former enslaved people.