US history Reconstruction

According to the Radical Republicans the recently passed black codes were:

• intended to increase Republican influence in the south.

• designed to help the Freedmen integrate into white society.

• a progressive move forward initiated by the Democrats.

• suspiciously similar to slavery.

Which Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Initially, the Republicans were not concerned with Vice President Andrew Johnson ascending to the Office of President. This was because:

• Johnson worked well with Congress in the past.

• he was a Southerner.

• they liked his view ex-Confederates should be treated roughly during the Reconstruction process.

• he was an abolitionist.

What turn of events cause the Republican-controlled Congress to begin to have doubts about President Johnson?

• Johnson ignored the desires of the defeated Confederates, particularly the disenfranchised and poor white farmers.

• Johnson demonstrated little interest in affairs regarding Reconstruction.

• Johnson was willing to let the white Southerners determine the civil and political fate of the Freedmen.

• Johnson's lack of enthusiasm to remove the Union Army from the occupation zones.

What was the group of Congressmen who were staunchly opposed to slavery?

• Radical Republicans

• Moderate Republicans

• Redeemers

• Blue Dog Democrats

A president exercises a pocket veto by refusing to sign the bill before Congress adjourned.

• True

• False

The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction offered a full pardon to all Southerners (with the exception of certain classes of Confederate leaders) who would take an oath of allegiance to the Union and acknowledge the legality of emancipation.

• True

• False

The Ten Percent Plan provided that once 10 percent or more of the voting population of any occupied state had taken the oath, the Federal Government was authorized to set up a loyal government.

• True

• False

Lincoln’s policy was meant to shorten the war by weakening the southern cause by making it easy for disillusioned or lukewarm Confederates to switch sides.

• True

• False

Congress favored the minimal approach, whereas the White House came to endorse the more radical and thoroughgoing form of Reconstruction.

• True

• False