Reconstruction

Reconstruction refers to both rebuilding the South and to the plan to bring Southern states back into the Union.

• True

• False

Who proposed the Ten Percent Plan?

• Thaddeus Stevens

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• Abraham Lincoln

• the Radical Republicans

Which word is closest in meaning to amnesty?

• pardon

• admit

• pursue

• pursue

Which word is closest in meaning to radical?

• peaceful

• extreme

• ignorant

• northern

Radical Republicans favored the Wade-Davis Bill.

• True

• False

To help African Americans adjust to life after slavery, Congress created the ____.

• black codes

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Ten Percent Plan

• Freedmen's Bureau

Who became president after President Lincoln was killed?

• Thaddeus Stevens

• John Wilkes Booth

• Andrew Johnson

• Wade Davis

To reenter the Union, Southern states had to ____.

• outlaw the practice of slavery

• pledge loyalty to President Lincoln

• gradually free enslaved people

• vote for Radical Republicans

"Black codes" were laws passed by Congress to help protect African Americans.

• True

• False

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

• to grant citizenship to African Americans

• to guarantee former enslaved people the right to vote

• to extend amnesty to former Confederates

• to formally begin Reconstruction