Civil War and Impact On Georgia Quiz II

What was the main purpose of Freedmen's Bureau?

• Battle the terrorists groups like the Ku Klux Klan

• establish black codes to limit free slaves

• serve as a voice of freed black slaves in Congress

• help slaves to adjust to their freedom

How did federal government respond to the Georgia Assembly’s expulsion of its African American members during Reconstruction?

• The U.S. Congress deemed Georgia unreconstructed and rejected its readmission to the United States

• The President of the United States veto a congressional bill that would have expelled Georgia's representatives from Congress

• The governor was censured by the Senate for allowing and supporting the actions of the assembly

• The Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could not legally interfere in the matter

What precondition did President Andrew Johnson set for readmitting Confederate states into the Union?

• Ten percent of the state's legislators must have been ineligible to vote prior to the Civil War

• Ten percent of the state's government-owned land must have been distributed to former slaves

• Ten percent of the state's population had to swear an allegiance to the United States

• Ten percent of the state's war reparation debt had to be repaid to the federal government

What was one reason that Georgia remained under US military control after it held its second Reconstruction-era constitutional convention in 1867–1868?

• Georgia refused to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment and grant African American men the right to vote.

• President Abraham Lincoln took control of Reconstruction and set harsh preconditions for readmission to the Union.

• Georgia refused to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment and free African Americans in slavery.

• President Andrew Johnson took control of Reconstruction and set harsh preconditions for readmission to the Union.

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States. Which amendment overturned that ruling?

• the Sixteenth Amendment

• the Fifteenth Amendment

• the Fourteenth Amendment

• the Thirteenth Amendment

How is the work of the Reconstruction-era Freedmen's Bureau reflected in the state of Georgia today?

• in the state legislature, as the bureau helped the first black legislatures get elected

• in the state's legislature, as the bureau helped end the White primary system of choosing candidates

• in the state's public schools, as the bureau help establish the first public schools of the state

• in the state's manufacturing, as the bureau helped the state industrialize and diversify its economy

What is the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment?

• The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was the only way that states that seceded from the Union would be readmitted to the United States.

• The Emancipation Proclamation only frees the slaves belonging to the Confederate States while the 13th Amendment made the institution of slavery illegal within the United States

• Both documents made slavery illegal within the United States, but the Emancipation Proclamation was created during the Civil War while the 13th Amendment was created after the war.

• The 13th Amendment protects the rights of slave owners while the Emancipation Proclamation protects the rights of the slaves

Who led the effort to remove African American legislators from the Georgia General Assembly during Reconstruction?

• Democratic state legislators

• Radical Republican state legislators

• The Justices of the Georgia Supreme Court

• The Governor of Georgia

The time period after the Civil War is know as...

• Rebuild

• Construction Period

• Reconstruction

• Antebellum

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reconstruction

What was the main purpose of Reconstruction in Georgia after the Civil War?

• To punish the Confederate leaders

• To rebuild the state's economy and infrastructure

• To secede again from the Union

• To relocate its population to the North

Answer explanation

The main purpose of Reconstruction in Georgia after the Civil War was to rebuild the state's economy and infrastructure, not to punish Confederate leaders, secede again from the Union, or relocate its population to the North.