DCAH Semester Review

In their plans for Reconstruction, what did both Lincoln and Johnson seek to carry out?

• punish the South for starting the Civil War

• force the Southern States to pay reparations to the Federal Government

• allow the Southern States to reenter the nation as quickly as possible

• establish the Republican Party as the only political party in the South

Which of the following is NOT TRUE concerning Reconstruction?

• It resulted in Southern resentment toward the Northern and Southern African Americans.

• Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to guarantee civil rights for African Americans.

• President Johnson and Congress agreed on most of the aspects of their Reconstruction plans.

• Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877.

Which Constitutional Amendment made slavery illegal?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

Which amendment gave voting rights to all men?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

Unlike Presidential Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction

• made Black Codes federal laws

• placed Confederate states under federal military control

• readmitted Southern states to the Union unconditionally

• redistributed land among the free slaves

The most long-lasting victory for civil rights achieved during Reconstruction was the

• ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution

• establishment of a strong two-party political system in the South

• passage of Black Codes throughout the South

• increased prominence given to the Office of the President

What was the decision of the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

• Black Codes were unconstitutional.

• Racial segregation did not violate the equal protection provision of the 14th amendment

• The citizenship principle established in Dred Scott v. Sanford was repealed.

• The 15th amendment failed to guarantee the right to vote to all males.

After the Civil War, white Southern landowners used sharecropping to

• sell their plantations to formerly enslaved person

• encourage freedmen to migrate north

• set up schools to educate formerly enslaved persons

• maintain a cheap labor supply

Which congressional action led to the Southern viewpoint expressed in this cartoon?

• passage of the Homestead Act

• ending the Freedmen's Bureau

• military occupation of the former Confederate States

• strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Laws

Literacy tests and poll taxes were created mainly to

• eliminate fraudulent voting practices

• establish uniform national voting requirements

• raise money for political campaigns

• limit the number of African Americans qualified to vote