Reconstruction Unit 3

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To provide financial support to Southern plantation owners

• To assist newly freed African Americans and white refugees after the Civil War.

• To promote the expansion of slavery in the United States

• To establish African-American and Republican Governments in the South

Which Amendment Abolished Slavery in the USA?

What Reconstruction Plan allowed southern states to reenter the Union if 10% of their state swore allegiance to the United States?

• Lincoln's Plan

• Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Radical Reconstruction Plan

What officially ended Reconstruction in the United States?

• Lincoln's Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill

• Compromise of 1877

• Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

How were former Confederate leaders treated under the Radical Reconstruction Plan?

• They were denied citizenship because it was believed they had started the war.

• They were allowed to obtain federal loans to help restore the cotton industry.

• They were denied the ability to obtain political positions.

• They were restored to positions held prior to the Civil War

After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to-

• punish plantations owners for the use of slavery

• limit the impact of the 13th Amendment

• support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the south

• create a new system of labor in the south including paying a livable wage to African-Americans

What piece of Congressional Reconstruction legislation divided former Confederate states into military districts?

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Redeemer Act of 1873

Rives wanted the Reynolds Brothers case moved to which court?

• District

• State

• Federal

• Supreme

What group was responsible for terrorizing African Americans by threatening violence and death after the Civil War?

• US Army

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

• Scalawags

The main issue the Reynolds brothers faced with their case was which?

• No one would represent them in court

• The State of Virginia would not try their case

• An all white jury and receiving a fair trial

• No one wanted to serve in the jury