Reconstruction Plans Quiz

Each state had to ratify the 13th Amendment before being re-admitted to the Union.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Wanted Reconstruction to be a fast process that did not severely punish the South.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Each Southern state had to ratify the 14th Amendment and create a new state constitution.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Radical Republicans did not like this plan because they felt that it was not hard enough on the South and that it did not do enough to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Required that 10% of a Southern state's population swear an oath to the U.S. before that state could be re-admitted to the Union.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

What was the purpose of Reconstruction?

• To rebuild the North
• To rebuild the South
• To punish the South
• To punish the North

The members of Congress battled with both presidents because they felt that the Presidential Reconstruction Plans:

• were too focused on helping the freed African slaves, but not on helping the poor, white farmers.
• were too strict to allow the Union to ever be reunited as it was prior to the Civil War.
• were too lenient on the Southern states that had rebelled against the Union.
• were created too quickly without consulting the former leaders of the Confederate states.

The 13th amendment to the Constitution was the first of the "Reconstruction Amendments," What was the purpose of this amendment?

• to give women the right to vote
• to allow the Confederate States to re-enter the Union
• to give African Americans the right to vote
• to abolish slavery

Established 5 military districts in the South.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

Each Southern state had to ratify the 14th Amendment and create a new state constitution.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan