Reconstruction (and ProjectNames)

Which "Civil War Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Which "Civil War Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution prohibited states from denying equal rights under the law to any American and citizenship was redefined to include all persons born in the United States (include former slaves) or naturalized?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Which "Civil War Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution extended voting rights to former slaves that were guaranteed regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude” ?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What did the Radical Republicans, Reconstruction Act, do to the secessionist states to not allow them back into the Union immediately after the Civil War without reform toward Civil Rights and Voting Rights for former slaves?

• Instituted Black Codes

• Issued pardons to high-ranking Confederate officers

• Put the former Confederacy under military occupation

• 10% of Registered 1860 voters had to pledge loyalty to Union

Which of the following best describes President Lincoln's post- Civil War Reconstruction plan to reinstitute Southern governments?

• Offered pardons to high-ranking military and political Confederate leaders who personally requested them

• Military occupation until Civil Rights and Voting Rights reforms were passed

• Lincoln was not considered a Reconstruction Era President because he was assassinated too soon after Civil War

• 10 percent of registered voters in 1860 pledged loyalty to the United States government

What were a series of Reconstruction era state laws, passed in the former Confederate states, that tried to control the African American population and return them to a state of slavery under another name?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights Acts

• Reconstruction Acts

President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan allowed for a quick restoration of the Southern states back into the Union after the Civil War because

• He was assassinated so soon after the war ended.

• He believed secession was illegal, Confederate governments were illegitimate the states had never really left the Union.

• The South's economy and infrastructure was untouched by the war.

• He pardoned most high-ranking military officers and political leaders who asked.

When President Lincoln encouraged in his 2nd Inaugural Address to act “with malice towards none, with charity for all…to bind up the nation’s wounds….” this most directly resulted in which of the following?

• A long and punitive Reconstruction.

• Civil Rights and Voting Rights for former slaves.

• Little punishment for the former Confederacy and a quick Reconstruction.

• The formation of the Federal Freedmen's Bureau.

What was one of the most important contributions of the Federal Freemen's Bureau during Reconstruction?

• Passage of the Civil War Amendments, 13th- 14th- 15th.

• Establishment of a system of Sharecropping.

• Establishment of hundreds of schools for former slaves.

• Passage of a series of legislation called Black Codes.

Who was an African American sailor and later a Union naval captain, was highly honored for his feats of bravery and heroism- he was elected to the United States House of Representatives after the war?

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert Smalls

• Nat Turner