Reconstruction Review

The 13th Amendment

• Legalized slavery
• Extended slavery
• Ignored slavery
• Abolished slavery

The 14th Amendment

• Right to bear arms
• Freedom of speech
• Right to a fair trial
• Citizenship rights and equal protection under the law

The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote to

• African American men
• Everyone regardless of gender

• Native American men
• African Americans

The Radical Republicans were Congressional Republicans who -

• a. supported slavery.
• b. wanted to support President Andrew Johnson

• c. wanted to bring the South back quickly into the Union.
• d. wanted punish the South and send Union troops to the South to protect the rights of freed Blacks.

Why was Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan sometimes called "The 10% Plan?"

• a. It called for a 10% tax on Southern products to pay their Civil War debts.
• b. 10% of each Southern state's voters were required to pledge loyalty to the United States and support emancipation before that state was readmitted into the Union.
• c. Southern states would be required to provide employment for 10% of the freed Blacks in their population.
• d. None of the above

The Wade-Davis Bill--

• a. Was drafted by Congressional Democrats in 1864.
• b. Stated that 50% of voters in Southern states must take the oath of allegiance to the United States.
• c. Passed both houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Lincoln.
• d. All of the above.

What was a "Scalawag?"

• A Southerner who supported the Union.

• A Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction in order to make money.

• Someone who worked for the Freedmen's Bureau

• A pirate

What was a "Carpetbagger?"

• Someone who worked for the Freedmen's Bureau

• A Southerner who supported the Union.

• A Notherner who moved to the South during Reconstruction in order to make money

• A pirate

The Freedmen's Bureau--

• a. Helped former enslaved people with school, jobs, and housing.
• b. Registered former slaves for the purpose of collecting their debts for Southern governments.
• c.Had as a major goal of assisting Black women start their own businesses and buy property
• d. Supported indigenous populations, specifically the Cherokee of Georgia.

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

• a. A group of Southern Democrat politicians that supported the rights of freed Blacks.
• b. A group of Republican U.S. Senators that opposed returning to the Union.
• c. Former Confederate soldiers who terrorized Black people across the South.
• d. Former Union soldiers who opposed Southern re-entry into the Union.