Chapter 19 Lesson 2

The black codes were _____.

• laws passed by Congress to help protect African Americans

• laws designed to control newly freed African Americans

• secret messages used by newly freed African Americans

• a series of Supreme Court decisions that ruled that African Americans were not citizens

What was one purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

• to grant citizenship to African Americans

• to guarantee formerly enslaved people the right to vote

• to begin Reconstruction

• to extend amnesty to former Confederates

Which amendment to the Constitution guaranteed citizenship to formerly enslaved persons?

• 12

• 13

• 14

• 15

____ began with the congressional elections of 1866.

• Reconstruction

• Radical Reconstruction

• Impeachment

• State constitutional conventions

President Andrew Johnson _____ two Reconstruction bills passed by the Radical Republican.

• approved

• vetoed

• was able to override

• made changes to

The ____ empowered the army to register voters in the South.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• First Reconstruction Act

• Second Reconstruction Act

• Tenure of Office Act

Because President Johnson opposed the Reconstruction Acts, _____.

• Congress offered a compromise so that Johnson could fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

• Congress passed a series of laws to limit the president's power

• the Senate voted to impeach him

• Radical Republicans threatened to shut down the government

Why did Congress pass the Tenure of Office Act?

• to keep former Confederates from holding office

• to help elect African Americans

• to control Andrew Johnson

• to punish the South

____ voted to impeach President Johnson

• The House of Representatives

• The Senate

• State conventions

• Southern voters

What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• to grant citizenship to African Americans

• to grant African American men the right to vote

• to end Reconstruction

• to extend amnesty to former Confederates