Reconstruction Quiz - Lessons 1 & 2

What does, "with malice towards none, with charity for all", show us about Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction?

• He wanted to punish the Confederates.

• He wanted to show forgiveness to Confederates.

• He wanted to make it difficult for the south to rejoin.

President Lincoln thought the Wade-Davis bill was:

• too easy on the South because it only required 10 percent of southerners to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.

• too harsh on the South because it required 50 percent of southerners to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.

• a perfect way to reunite the North and South.

• better to be renamed the "Davis-Wade" bill, to put the names in alphabetical order.

Free people who had previously been enslaved were known as __________.

• freedmen

• unslaved

• new citizens

• righteous and harmonious fists

What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?

• punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies

• punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen

• to secede from the Union

• to reinstate the practice of slavery

What was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson, because he thought it gave the federal government too much power and was unconstitutional?

• Black Codes

• The Davis-Wade bill

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866

• The Dwyane Wade bill

Radical Republicans thought President Johnson's Reconstruction plan was too easy on the South and did not protect freedmen. After Johnson decided to remove the Secretary of War, what did they do about this?

• They voted to re-elect President Lincoln.

• They tried to impeach President Johnson.

• They set their differences aside in hopes of uniting the nation.

• They vetoed his plan and wrote a new one.

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.

• Confederate soldiers could never re-join the Union.

• Plantation owners would be sent away to other countries.

• Freedmen would become the owners of former plantations.

Which of the following tried to limit the rights of African Americans in order to help the planter elite hold onto slavery-like conditions?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Abraham Lincoln

• Black Codes

• Radical Republicans

What agency was created to help former slaves assimilate into society?

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Red Shirts

• The Sharecroppers' Bureau

In what ways did the Freedmen's Bureau help freedmen?

• The Bureau helped the Ku Klux Klan by guiding freedmen to their "proper place."

• The Bureau helped white plantation owners find freedmen to exploit.

• The Bureau helped create sharecropping and the freedmen's cycle of debt to white landowners.

• The Bureau helped people find jobs and medical care, and supported education.