Reconstruction Quiz 2

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery in all of the United States?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

What did the 15th amendment to the Constitution guarantee?

• The right for all people to be free from slavery.

• The right to a fair trial.

• The right to free speech.

• The right for all men to vote regardless of race.

What was a common purpose of the three amendments added to the United States Constitution between 1865-1870?

• Extending suffrage to Southern women.

• Reforming the sharecropping system.

• Granting rights to African Americans.

• Protecting rights of Southerners accused of treason.

Which amendment gave citizenship rights to freed slaves

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

How did the Freedmen's Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?

• By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

What faction of the Republican Party demanded harsh punishment of the South & rights for African Americans?

• Radicals
• Moderates
• Liberals
• Conservatives

This plan required 10% of Southern voters to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.

• Lincoln's 10% Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• Radical Reconstruction
• Redeemer's Reconstruction

Most southerners receive amnesty, Confederates could be pardoned, states must ratify 13th

• Lincoln's Plan
• Johnson's Plan
• Sherman's Plan
• Radical Reconstruction

Southern laws that restricted the freedom of African Americans & forced them into low wage labor.

• Black Codes

• Reconstruction Act of 1867
• Enforcement Acts
• Civil Rights Act of 1875

1864 bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South; required 50% of Southerners to take an oath that they never supported the Confederacy; vetoed by Lincoln

• Wade-Davis Bill
• 10% Plan
• Reconstruction Act
• Civil Rights Act of 1864