WK#3 Quiz 8th Grade Flight 8 Topic 9 L-2 Radical Reconstruction

Republicans believed that black codes and other restrictions on freedmen’s rights were a result of

• southern fears about the future they faced.

• having southern representatives in Congress.

• disrespect for the power of the federal government.

• President Johnson’s lenient Reconstruction plans.

Freedmen received citizenship with the passage of

• the Dred Scott decision.

• the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

• the Thirteenth Amendment.

• the Fourteenth Amendment.

How did Republicans gain control of all the new southern state governments when the South was largely Democratic?

• Freedmen’s votes outnumbered those of white voters.

• The army discouraged Democrats from going to the polls.

• Men who had fought for the Confederacy were not allowed to vote.

• White voters believed their state governments would prosper under Republican rule.

The House impeached President Johnson for

• refusing to veto Reconstruction acts.

• failing to execute the laws Congress had passed.

• trying to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction legislation.

• ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Fifteenth Amendment was important to all African American men because

• voting rights had been denied them in the South.

• everyone knew Radical Reconstruction would not last.

• it had been up to each state to determine voting rights.

• they had not previously been allowed to vote in parts of the North.

What did the Southern states pass?

• The Black Codes

• The Jim Crow Laws

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Thirteenth Amendment

This act established direct military rule over former Confederate states until new governments could be formed.

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Thirteenth Amendment

• Civil War Act

• Reconstruction Act

Which group wanted freedmen to be granted full political equality?

• Radical Republicans

• Abolitionists

• Unionists

• Confederate States

After the Civil War, Southern states adopted Black Codes in order to—

• punish plantation owners for the use of slavery.

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South.

• promote the activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau.

• limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment.

Following the 13th Amendment many Southern state governments countered by enacting black codes. The Radical Republicans in Congress responded to these black codes with the passage of the --

• Civil Rights Acts of 1866

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Compromise of 1870

• Morill Act