Midterm

What constitutional amendment guaranteed the right to vote to all male citizens, "regardless of race, religion, or previous condition of servitude"?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

The following quote characterizes the sentiments toward Reconstruction, of which of the following people? ­...“with malice towards none, with charity for all…to bind up the nation’s wounds”

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

The Civil War was the deadliest war in America's history. How many people died during the American Civil War? 

• 57,000

• 340,000

• 620,000

• 4,475

Which of the following statements reflects the ideas of the "Lost Cause"?

• The Confederate states seceded and fought the Civil War over the issue of States' Rights, rather than slavery

• The Confederate states fought to preserve slavery, and therefore should be judged in history as attempting to uphold an evil institution.

• The leaders of the Confederacy were traitors and rebels who should have been held accountable for the death and destruction of the Civil War.

What group was known for its use of violence and intimidation against its enemies during Reconstruction?

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Ku Klux Klan

• The Stalwarts

What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1877?

• Federal Troops were removed from Southern states

• Rutherford B. Hayes was made President

• Reconstruction ended in the South

• All of the Above

President Lincoln worked on a plan for Reconstruction before the Civil War was over. Which of the following was part of his plan?

• Ten percent of voters in a state had to take an oath of allegiance.

• Plantation owners would be sent away to other countries.

• Confederate soldiers could never re-join the Union.

• Freedmen would become the owners of former plantations.

What was the effect of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, passed as a part of Radical Reconstruction? 

• The south was divided former Confederacy into 5 military districts and set up new requirements to gain readmission to the Union

• Former confederate states were allowed self rule and not required to repudiate their secession

• Black codes were instituted throughout the south, limiting the freedom of African Americans

In 1866, a massacre occurred in this southern city, resulting in the deaths of 46 African Americans, destruction of 4 churches, 12 schools, and 91 homes during Reconstruction.

• Atlanta

• Montgomery

• Nashville

• Memphis

What do we call the period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War and included the process by which the federal government readmitted former Confederate states?

• Redemption

• Reconstruction

• Lost Cause

• The Civil War