US History Chapter 12 Review (Reconstruction)

Constitutional amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to

• limit the number of terms of the president

• end property and religious qualifications for voting

• provide legal and political rights for African Americans

During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), the 15th amendment was adopted to grant African Americans

• voting rights

• economic equality

• educational opportunities

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

• allowing the states to veto federal laws

• granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons

• punishing the South for seceding from the Union

Which Supreme Court decision created the need for a constitutional amendment that would grant citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Marbury v. Madison

• Worchester v. Georgia

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. . . .” — 15th Amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution, 1870

Which actions did Southern States take to keep African Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed in this amendment?

• collecting poll taxes and requiring literacy tests

• establishing religious and property-holding requirements for voting

• passing Black Codes and establishing segregated schools

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

• support the goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• enforce the amendments enacted during the Civil War and Reconstruction

• deny suffrage rights to African Americans

President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War included

• conducting trials for former Confederate leaders

• reuniting the nation as quickly as posible

• restoring the social conditions that existed before the war began

The Reconstruction plans of President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson included a provision for the

• resumption of full participation in Congress by Southern States

• payment of war reparations by Southern States

• harsh punishment of former Confederate officials

Before the former Confederate states could be readmitted to the Union, the congressional plan for Reconstruction required them to

• ratify the 14th amendment

• provide 40 acres of land to all freedmen

• imprison all former Confederate soldiers

During the late 1800s, Southern voters solidly supported the Democratic Party primarily because Democrats

• favored a stronger national government

• disliked the Reconstruction programs of the Republicans

• led efforts to advance civil rights