Reconstruction Test

The main goal of Reconstruction was to

• readmit the former Confederate states into the Union.

• revive the economies of northern states after the Civil War.

• establish a new national government following the Civil War.

• provide newly freed slaves with land and money.

The Freedmen’s Bureau was a/an

• organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.

• organization made up of a group of newly freed African Americans.

• group created to establish rules and regulations for freedmen in the United States.

• group designed to aid Reconstruction by building the economy of the South.

How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan?

• The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of southern males take an oath of loyalty.

• The Wade-Davis Bill required that each southern state ban slavery.

• The Wade-Davis Bill allowed each southern state to receive a presidential pardon.

• The Wade-Davis Bill allowed Confederate supporters to vote and hold office.

What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans?

• It gave African Americans the same economic opportunities as white Americans.

• It provided African Americans with compensation for their labor during slavery.

• It gave African American citizens the right to vote.

• It provided African Americans with a future free from slavery.

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau affect education for freed slaves in the South?

• It provided freed slaves with transportation to and from schools.

• It established more schools and increased efforts to educate freed slaves.

• It created scholarship programs that allowed freed slaves to attend college.

• It established integrated schools for freed slaves and poor whites to attend.

Lincoln’s main vision for Reconstruction was to

• quickly return the South to its previous way of life.

• see freed slaves living as equals with their white counterparts.

• reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible.

• make it difficult for the southern states to reenter the Union.

Many Republican Congress members disagreed with Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction because they thought that

• it would take more to restore the Union than for southern states to swear an oath of loyalty.

• Lincoln’s plan was too harsh for the southern states to agree to.

• the percentage of voters required to swear an oath of loyalty under Lincoln’s plan was too high.

• those who supported the Confederacy should be able to vote and hold office.

How did Reconstruction affect the social structure of the South?

• African Americans began to demand the same economic and political rights as whites.

• African Americans were recognized as equals under the laws of southern governments.

• African Americans received free plots of land from southern planters who were forced to give up land.

• African Americans received adequate compensation for their forced labor during slavery.

Why did Congress still refuse to readmit southern states into the Union in 1865, when Vice President Andrew Johnson became president?

• The representatives of the new governments failed to declare secession illegal.

• The new governments failed to revise their constitutions by that year.

• The new governments refused to ban slavery in their respective states.

• The representatives of the new governments had been leaders of the Confederacy.

President Andrew Johnson’s plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials was to:

• grant them amnesty through presidential pardons.

• have them pay off Confederate debts.

• make them federal representatives.

• force them to surrender their land.