Radical Reconstruction

What aspect helped Radical Reconstruction change the South?

• Strong government leadership
• Military control
• White Southern support
• Lincoln's leadership

Who did the Radical Republicans attempt to impeach?

• Lincoln
• Johnson
• Grant
• Hayes

How many military zones was the South divided into?

• 1
• 3
• 5
• 7

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

___________________ wanted African Americans to have full citizenship.

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Radical Republicans

• Union Army

When President Johnson vetoed a law that would extend the Freedmen's Bureau, Congress reacted by

• supporting the veto and closing the Freedmen's Bureau

• writing a new law to show support for the Black Codes

• overriding the veto and expanding the agency's powers

• drafting a law to prevent African Americans from voting

How did President Johnson's handling of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 impact Congress?

• Congress revised many of their bills when the president disapproved

• The Republicans handed over total control of Reconstruction to Johnson

• Congress cooperated with Johnson to achieve their goals for Reconstruction

• Tensions created by Johnson's vetoes led to major conflict with the president

As a result of the tension between President Johnson and the Radical Republicans

• Congress voted to impeach Andrew Johnson

• Johnson decided to sign the Reconstruction Acts

• Johnson chose to support Radical Reconstruction

• Congress refused to support Secretary Edwin Stanton

What was one reason Congress gave for wanting to remove President Johnson from office?

• Johnson had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Johnson had abused his presidential powers

• Johnson had failed to provide his own Reconstruction plan

• Johnson had created new Cabinet positions without approval

This secret society attempted to keep Freedmen from exercising their rights through threats and violence.

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• The Anti-Freedmen Group

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the NAACP