US I Reconstruction

After the Civil War, the South faced many economic problems such as

• Many people had no personal property

• Much of the investment capital had been wiped out

• Many of the towns and plantations were destroyed

• All of the answers

President Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction can best be described as

• Popular with the Radical Republicans

• meant to punish the South

• mild

• harsh

Lincoln’s 10% Plan referred to

• The ratio between federal and state money used for rebuilding the South

• How much land should be confiscated from white Southerners

• How many federal troops should remain in the South

• How many white southerners needed to take loyalty oaths in each state

Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction plan added an additional requirement to Lincoln’s plan. What was it?

• Ratification of the 13th Amendment

• Appointment of provisional governors

• Amnesty for former Republicans

• Ratification of the 14th Amendment

All of the following actions by President Johnson angered Congress EXCEPT

• His appointment of a black to the Supreme Court

• The veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• The dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

• The veto of the Civil Rights Act

After the Radical Republicans in Congress took charge of reconstruction, they

• Allowed former Confederates to hold public office

• Excluded blacks from voting

• Divided the South into five military districts

• All of the answers

The former Confederate state that ratified the 14th Amendment and therefore was the only state that was initially allowed back into the US under Radical reconstruction was

• Texas

• Maryland

• Tennessee

• Florida

President Johnson was

• Convicted but not impeached

• Impeached but not convicted

• Impeached and convicted

• Impeached, convicted, and removed from office

The Command of the Army Act

• Replaced Grant as the commander of the army

• Said that the Senate would now give orders to the army

• Said that the president could not fire General Grant without the permission of the Senate

• Appointed Grant as commander of the army

When Andrew Johnson was impeached, the House had

• All of the answers

• Convicted him of a crime

• Removed him from office

• Accused him of a crime