Gold, Transcendentalists, more Civil War

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

Why did Southern states pass Black Codes immediately following the Civil War?

• to limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

• to expand the power of ex-Confederate leaders

• to give Southern women voting rights

• to jail carpetbaggers

What organization created public education, health care and training in the South for freedmen?

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the Radical Republicans

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• the Carpetbaggers

During the Reconstruction Era many Radical Republicans passed legislative reforms that were designed to --

• support the passage of the black codes in the former Confederate states

• actively resist the Wade-Davis Bill that granted equal rights to African Americans

• give economic opportunities and political rights to the newly freed slaves

• create lenient measures to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union

During the Reconstruction Era many Radical Republicans passed legislative reforms that were designed to --

• support the passage of the black codes in the former Confederate states

• actively resist the Wade-Davis Bill that granted equal rights to African Americans

• give economic opportunities and political rights to the newly freed slaves

• create lenient measures to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union

Members of the Republican party who believed the Confederacy should be punished for their actions and believed African Americans were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.

• Carpetbagger

• Scalawag

• Radical Republican

• Freedmen

Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

• Democrats

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

Who did the Radical Republicans attempt to impeach?

• Lincoln

• Johnson

• Grant

• Hayes

___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Radical Republicans

• Union Army

Transcendentalism encourages:

• following the rules

• being like everyone else

• joining the majority opinion

• not conforming to what others do and say