PMA Quarter 1 Review - Challenging Content

Which document signed by Abraham Lincoln freed enslaved people on January 1, 1863, in the Confederate States, which were still in rebellion?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Compromise of 1850

• Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation helped give rise to another more important legislation....Which legislation was it?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

Look at the 1860 Presidential Map. Which choice best represents the 1860 election?

• Lincoln won support only in the East Coast and the South while the North strongly opposed a Lincoln presidency.

• Lincoln won support in the North and the West, while the South strongly opposed a Lincoln presidency.

• Lincoln was not able to win enough support from the South so Lincoln lost the election and Breckinridge was able to win the presidency.

• Lincoln was able to receive strong support from the North and the South and so he was able to unite both regions before the Civil War.

• Breckinridge, Bell and Douglas were able to get enough popular votes to cause Lincoln to lose the 1860 election.

Look at the map on Reconstruction military districts. The Reconstruction districts were established in 1867. Why did Tennesse not have the Union army in its state?

• Tennessee decided not to do legislative work with the federal government, but instead wanted to work with unorganized territories in the West.

• The 5 Reconstruction districts supported the economic development of the other southern states but Tennesse wanted to remain an agricultural economy.

• Tennessee strongly opposed the 14th Amendment and so the Radical Republicans gave the other states military protection from southern rebels while leaving Tennessee unprotected.

• Tennessee joined the Union earlier because it supported the 14th Amendment, which received strong support from Radical Republicans.

What was the purpose of the 14th Amendment?

• This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

• This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

• This amendment gave free speech rights to African Americans.

• This amendment gave citizenship rights to African Americans.

Look at the timeline on the Causes of the Civil War. Which answer is the correct description?

• Many compromises over slavery failed before Lincoln was elected.

• The Battle of Fort Sumter occurred, causing Lincoln to win his presidential election.

• The Dred Scott decision encouraged Congress to pass the Missouri Compromise.

• President Lincoln was angry when the Supreme Court made the Dred Scott decision during his presidency.

• Lincoln was elected to be president after the Confederate soldiers waged the Battle of Fort Sumter

Why did Radical Republicans not support President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction in the South?

• Radical Republicans did not support his plan because they said Lincoln wanted to give southerners much higher taxes to rebuild the "New South."

• Radical Republicans said that Lincoln did not want to give African American Union soldiers the right to vote. They said Lincoln did not respect their military sacrifices for the country.

• Radical Republicans thought Lincoln's plan only offered 10 percent of voters in former Confederate states to take an oath of loyalty, but they wanted a majority of voters to swear loyalty to the Union.

• Radical Republicans did not want Lincoln to grant freedom and to give citizenship rights to African Americans. They thought Lincoln was going too far.

Which choice best describes Radical Republicans' actions and approach during the Reconstruction Era?

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  They went to the South themselves to help African Americans find family members from whom they had become separated during the war. They taught Black Americans to read and write. They encouraged former major planters to rebuild their plantations and pay wages to their previously enslaved workers. They monitored the contracts between the newly free laborers and planters, given that few freedmen had yet gained adequate reading skills, and pushed whites and blacks to work together in a free-labor market as employers and employees and rather than as masters and slaves.

• They disrupted and intimidated freedman voters, including using fraud at the polls and attacking their leaders. They used electoral violence culminated to regain control of the southern state legislatures and passed new constitutions and laws to disenfranchise most black Americans and many poor whites. They also imposed Jim Crow, a combination of legal and informal segregation acts that made blacks second-class citizens in the U.S. South.

• They opposed slavery, made efforts to ensure emancipation and civil rights for Black Americans. They were critical towards many policies of both President Abraham Lincoln and his successor Andrew Johnson. They became political enemies with Southern Democrats, many former slave owners, former Confederate soldiers, and the Ku Klux Klan.

How did Radical Republicans view the South and what was their approach to the South?

• They wanted general amnesty to allow Southerners to retain their property and reacquire their political rights. They wanted the South to rejoin the Union quickly on easy terms so that the nation could unite again and heal.

• They felt that the rebel states (former Confederate states) needed a strong hand of justice and the administration of harsh punishments for their actions.

• They provided general amnesty to allow Southerners to retain their property and reacquire their political rights. They gave the former Confederates and the white South an opportunity to regulate the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to Black Americans in the politics of the South.

How did Andrew Johnson view the South and what was his approach to the South?

• He wanted general amnesty to allow Southerners to retain their property and reacquire their political rights. He wanted the South to rejoin the Union quickly on easy terms so that the nation could unite again and heal.

• He felt that the rebel states (former Confederate states) needed a strong hand of justice and the administration of harsh punishments for their actions.

• He wanted general amnesty to allow Southerners to retain their property and reacquire their political rights. He gave the former Confederates and the white South an opportunity to regulate the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to Black Americans in the politics of the South.