Topic 1.1 Reconstruction Challenges

What was one of the main issues during Reconstruction?

• Rebuilding the Southern economy

• Granting full citizenship to African Americans

• Reuniting the Confederate states with the Union

• All of the above

Who struggled with how to return the eleven southern states to the Union?

• Congress

• President

• Both Congress and the President

• Neither Congress nor the President

What was the main cause of the decline in the South's share of the nation's total wealth?

• Loss of factories and railroads

• Death of southern white men in the war

• Emancipation of African Americans

• All of the above

What was General William Tecumseh Sherman's proposal to benefit former slaves?

• Confiscating land from southern landowners

• Giving forty acres and a mule to each former slave

• Paying white southerners for farmland

• Selling land to former slaves on easy terms

Which amendment freed African Americans from slavery?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

What was President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called?

• The Ten Percent Plan

• The Wade-Davis Bill

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Radical Republicans' Plan

According to Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, what percentage of a state's voters needed to take a loyalty oath to the Union for the state to set up a new government?

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

• 10%

Which group of politicians opposed Lincoln's plan and advocated for full citizenship and voting rights for African Americans?

• The Radical Republicans

• The Union Politicians

• The Confederate States

• The Freedmen's Bureau

What was the name of the organization established to provide assistance to African Americans and white refugees in the South?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Union Army

• The Confederate States

• The Radical Republicans

Who became the President after Lincoln's assassination?

• Andrew Johnson

• Thaddeus Stevens

• Charles Sumner

• George P.A. Healy