The Civil War and Reconstruction ➤ Reconstruction

Under Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, how many of a seceded state’s citizens had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States in order for that state to organize a new state government?

• 1. 10% of those who cast a vote in the 1860 election

• 1. 25% of those who cast a vote in the 1860 election

• 1. 40% of those who cast a vote in the 1860 election

• 1. 50.1% of those who cast a vote in the 1860 election

1. What was the Radical Republican's radical belief?

• 1. That African Americans should have political equality with whites by having the right to vote

• 1. That the former Confederate states should pay reparations to the United States in order to be readmitted to the Union

• 1. That districts should be drawn in each state to ensure that African Americans would achieve representation in the House of Representatives in proportion to their population in each state

• 1. That former Confederate military officers and public officials should be tried for treason

1. What was the mission of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• 1. To determine how to divide plantations in the South between plantation owners and their former slaves

• 1. To feed and clothe the war refugees with surplus army supplies, and to help freed African Americans to find work

• 1. To register African Americans in both the South and the North to vote

• 1. To organize African Americans to assist in the construction of housing units for freed slaves

1. Laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers

• 1. Black Codes

• 1. Jim Crow Laws

• 1. Indentured and involuntary servitude

• 1. Sharecropping Laws

1. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery.  What did the 14th Amendment do?

• 1. Granted African Americans the right to vote

• 1. Granted African Americans the right to own property

• 1. Granted African Americans the right to attend public schools

• 1. Granted African Americans full citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws

1. Who succeeded Andrew Johnson as President?

• 1. James Buchanan

• 1. Ulysses S. Grant

• 1. Rutherford B. Hayes

• 1. James A. Garfield

1. The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870.  What did it do?

• 1. Granted African Americans the right to vote

• 1. Granted African Americans the right to own property

• 1. Granted African Americans the right to attend public schools

• 1. Granted African Americans full citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws

1. Most Southerners were opposed to extending equal rights to African Americans and supported the Democrats.  What was the nickname given to Southerners who supported the Republicans?

• 1. Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• 1. Sharecroppers

• 1. Radical Republicans

1. Which of the following did not occur during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant?

• Scandal

• 1. Economic prosperity

• 1. High Tariffs

• 1. Formation of the Ku Klux Klan

1. In the Compromise of 1877, supposedly Rutherford B. Hayes would be made president if he would do which of the following once in office?

• 1. Provide free farmland for African Americans. 

• 1. Ensure the passage of the Enforcement Acts

• 1. Restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons.

• 1. Remove all federal troops from the Southern states