12.1-2 Quiz

Which best reflects President Lincoln's hopes for Reconstruction?

• to severely punish the South for seceding from the Union
• to replace all white officials in the South with African Americans
• to strengthen the North's domination of the South
• to bind the nation together and create a lasting peace

The Radical Republicans objected to President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction because they thought it was

• too lenient on the South
• too harsh on the South
• unfair to former slave owners
• too expensive

The goal of the Freedman's Bureau was to

• help former slaves adjust to freedom
• abolish slavery
• prevent African Americans from voting
• force African Americans to move north

The Radical Republicans passed a series of laws designed to

• reestablish slavery in a different form
• unfairly tax the South
• protect the civil rights of African Americans
• prohibit free speech in the South

What was the verdict in President Johnson's impeachment trial

• He was found guilty
• He was removed from office
• He was acquitted by one vote
• He was forced to confess his guilt

The Civil War left the South

• economically healthy
• in full control of its government
• in ruins
• largely unchanged from before the war

Many poor white southern laborers could no longer find work because of

• competition from freedmen
• the Captured and Abandoned Property Act
• new government work regulations
• their illiteracy

Under Johnson's Reconstruction plan, white southerners began to enact laws that

• weakened ties with the Union
• created jobs for African Americans
• redistributed land
• gave whites power over African Americans

The 14th Amendment was part of a series of laws that

• changed the way a President could hire government officials
• ensured the civil rights of African Americans
• restored the balance of power between the President and Congress
• shifted the balance of power in favor of the Supreme Court

The Reconstruction Act of 1867

• closed the South to Democrats
• closed the South to scalawags
• put the South under military rule
• gave voting rights to all Southerners