Reconstruction Quiz

The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to_____

• assist newly freed slaves

• divide the South into 5 military districts

• limit the voting rights of freedmen

• punish the South for secession

The main goal of Presidential Reconstruction was to_________

• help strengthen the rights of African Americans

• reunite the country as quickly as possible

• punish the South as harshly as possible

• rebuild the infrastructure of the South

Slavery was abolished in the U.S. by the_____

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Radical Republicans

• Thirteenth Amendment

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was based on the theory that the Confederacy should be_____

• divided into 5 military districts which would apply for statehood

• pardoned and treated leniently

• placed under the control of Congress

• punished harshly

During Presidential Reconstruction, the Black Codes passed by Southern states were attempts to______

• reintroduce slavery

• provide assistance to freedom

• punish former Confederate leaders

• deny equal rights to African Americans

The Reconstruction plan of the Radical Republicans_______

• divided the South into five military districts

• divided the U.S into North and South

• was the same as the plan proposed by President Johnson

• was very lenient on the South, seeking to reunite the nation as quickly as possible.

The military districts were created during Reconstruction to ______

• create economic and social equality in the South

• imprison former Confederates for committing treason

• govern the former Confederate states

• pay for the physical rebuilding of the South

Which of the following key pieces of legislation was NOT passed by the Radical Repbulicans in Congress?

• Freedmen's Bureau Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 14th Amendment

• Reconstruction Act

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction

thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make

or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United

States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of

law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

The amendment quoted above is______

• 1st Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Under Lincoln's Plan, former Confederate states were to be readmitted when______

• 100% of the voters in the state took an oath of loyalty to the U.S and abolished slavery

• 10% of the voters in the state took an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and the state abolished slavery

• a majority of the voters took an oath of loyalty to the U.S. and the state abolished slavery

• they apologized for seceding