Reconstruction Unit Test Review

During the Reconstruction Era from 1865 to 1877...

• former Union states were readmitted back into the Union after the Civil War.

• former Confederate states were readmitted back into the Union after the Civil War.

• former northern states were readmitted back into the Confederacy after the Civil War.

• former free states were readmitted back into the Confederacy after the Civil War

This amendment abolishes slavery in the United States and its territories.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

In his The Ten Percent Plan Abraham Lincoln...

• believed that wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials should need a presidential pardon.

• believed that the majority of adult males should take a loyalty oath that they had never supported the Confederacy.

• believed that the Union should be punished.

• believed that the preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South.

Radical Republicans included this amendment with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

To challenge the Black Codes, Congress passed the...

• Civil Rights Act of 1865

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Civil Rights Act of 1867

• Civil Rights Act of 1868

Collectively, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments guarantee equal protection under the law.

• True

• False

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

President Andrew Johnson fought with the Radical Republicans over this law.

• The Compromise of 1877

• The compromise of 1879

• The Civil Rights Act of 1865

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Identify all of the events that were related to Compromise of 1877.

• resulted in the election of Rutherford B. Hayes

• Jim Crow laws became prevalent in the South

• It ended Reconstruction

• Federal troops were removed from the South

• resulted in the election of Samuel J. Tilden

During Reconstruction, he fought for the adoption of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and was a powerful voice for human rights and civil rights.

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglass

• Nathan Bedford Forrest