Reconstruction Review

The period of rebuilding and reuniting the nation after the Civil War was called

• The Progressive Era

• Manifest Destiny

• Reconstruction

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Where can this statement be found?

• The Gettysburg Address

• Thirteenth Amendment

• The Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following would best complete the outline below?

I. ___________

A. Freedmen’s Bureau

B. Passage of the 14th amendment

C. Military occupation of the South

• Elements of Reconstruction

• Limits on Civil Rights

• Results of Manifest Destiny

Who's Reconstruction plan would have required 10% of southern voters to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union?

• Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

• Radical Republicans' Military Reconstruction Act

• Ulysses S. Grant's Plan

What government agency was created to help former enslaved people get an education and start their new lives?

• Civil Service

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Secret Service

What was one major result of the North’s victory in the Civil War?

• The power of the Supreme Court increased.

• The power of the presidency was decreased.

• The supremacy of the national government was upheld.

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• punishing the South for seceding from the Union

• granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

• allowing the states to veto federal laws

"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds,...achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Based on this speech, what was Lincoln's goal for Reconstruction?

• to heal and forgive the South so the nation could move on quickly

• to punish the South and make them pay for the Civil War

• to punish former Confederates by charging them with treason

After the Civil War, a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans in Congress was disagreement over

• the plans for restoring Southern states to the Union

• reduction of the army and the navy to prewar levels

• congressional efforts to pay the Confederate war debt

After the Civil War, many owners of large plantations in the South responded to the loss of enslaved labor by

• hiring Irish immigrants to do the work of freedmen

• selling their plantations to formerly enslaved persons

• creating sharecropping