6.2 - The Debate Over Reconstruction

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 were similar in that both

• A. kept rebels out of government.

• B. made slavery illegal.

• C. entitled African Americans to due process.

• D. encouraged Southern states to enfranchise African American men.

After the Civil War, Radical Republicans were eager to

• A. pardon former Confederate leaders who showed remorse.

• B. maintain an equal balance between the political parties in Congress.

• C. reconcile with the South to ensure its smooth readmission to the Union.

• D. secure the voting rights of African Americans in the South.

One of the main responsibilities of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

• A. teach industrial skills to Southerners.

• B. assist African Americans with voting.

• C. educate formerly enslaved African Americans.

• D. transfer land ownership to African Americans.

The Fifteenth Amendment

• A. made slavery illegal.

• B. provided equal protection to all.

• C. granted African American men the right to vote.

• D. granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

The underlying purpose of the black codes was to

• A. maintain law and order in the South.

• B. recreate conditions that were similar to slavery.

• C. guarantee economic security to white Southerners.

• D. provide land to the formerly enslaved.

What did the Military Reconstruction Act do?

• A. It divided the former Confederacy into military districts with a Union general in charge of each.

• B. It required the citizens of the former Confederacy to rebuild the South themselves.

• C. It denied any former Confederate state readmission to the Union.

• D. It allowed the former Confederate states to write their state constitutions as they wished.