Reconstruction Review

Preserving the Union and ending the Civil War as quickly as possible was the aim of ____.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Radical Republicans

• Carpetbaggers

____________ tried to continue Lincoln's goal for Reconstruction.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Radical Republicans

• Southerners

This group wanted the war to end and recognize the end of slavery but not treat slaves as equal

• Radical Republicans

• Africans Americans

• Southerners

• Scalawags

During Reconstruction, ________ wanted to be reunited with their families and enjoy freedom.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Congress

• African Americans

________ refused to allow the former Confederates to be elected into office.

• Congress

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Southerners

After the passage of 13th- 15th amendments, African Americans still faced oppression because

• the amendments were not intended to solve their problems

• many African Americans distrusted the Federal Government

• Southern states enacted Black Codes

• poor communication kept people from learning their rights

In their plans for Reconstruction, both President Lincoln and President Johnson sought to

• punish the South for starting the war.

• allow the South to reenter the nation as quickly as possible

• for the South to pay reparations to the Federal Government

• make the Republican party the only party in the South

The southern resistance and the KKK were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of

• the 14th and 15th amendment

• Plessy v Ferguson

• civil rights legislation passed in all states after the War

• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

A major reason Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's Reconstruction plans was that his plan

• demanded payments from the South

• postponed the readmission of Southern States into the Union

• granted too many right to formerly enslaved persons

• offered pardons to Confederates who swore allegiance to U.S.

How were many African Americans in the South affected after 1877?

• A constitutional amendment guaranteed their social rights.

• The Freedman's Bureau helped them become farm owners.

• Jim Crow laws place major restrictions on their rights.

• Southern factories offered them jobs.