Reconstruction 1860-1870

Who was the President when Reconstruction began?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Ulysses S. Grant

What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

• To give former slaves the right to vote.

• To give women the right to vote.

• To grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

• To abolish slavery.

Reconstruction in 1865-1867 was:

• building New York city.

• building major roads from New York to Illinois.

• building the Suez Canal.

• the process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union.

Andrew Johnson belonged to which political party?

• The Whigs

• The Republican

• The Democrat

• The Independent

Who was the President during the Civil War?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

Who received the land that had once been plantations worked by slaves?

• the government

• the freed slaves

• sharecroppers

• the original plantation owners

The Wade-Davis bill asked for the following:

• a state had to ban slavery, and a majority of adult males in the state had to take a loyalty oath to the Union. Only Southerners who had never supported the Confederacy could vote or hold office..

• a state had to agree that slavery was illegal, and take a loyalty oath to the union, once 10 percent agreed that state could be admitted into the Union.

The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to: ( more than one answer can be correct)

• to educate the recently freed people.

• provide relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South.

• to provide legal help to recently freed people..

• take people to northern cities after the war.

The purpose of the 14th Amendment was to:

• grant citizenship to all people born in the United States.

• give every citizen the right to vote.

• abolish slavery

Which people were excluded in the Fourteenth Amendment?

• Women

• African Americans

• Native Americans

• Confederate Loyalists