AMSCO 5.10: Reconstruction Reading Quiz

Under the Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction (Lincoln's Plan) what percentage of southern voters had to take loyalty oath in order for their state to be able to be readmitted to the Union?

• 25%

• 10 %

• 50%

• 33%

What was the organization created in March of 1865 to provide welfare (food, shelter, & aid) to former slaves after the war?

• Southern Aid Society
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Union Relief Agency
• National Freedmen's Association

What was the the greatest success of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• Establishing military forts in the South.
• Creating a national holiday for emancipation.
• Providing land grants to former slave owners.
• Establishing schools and providing education for formerly enslaved people.

According the the proposed Wade-Davis Bill, what percentage of southern had to take a loyalty oath in order to rejoin the union?

• 75%
• 100%
• 50%
• 25%

What will Johnson's plan do, even thought it was similar to Lincoln's, that will allow former Confederates to return to power?

• Guaranteed voting rights for slaves

• Execute Confederate leaders

• Confiscate southern farm lands

• Allow individual pardons

What 2 bills did Johnson veto that angered Republicans in 1866?

• More aid to the Freedmen's Bureau

• Transcontinental Railroad Funding

• Civil Rights bill that would have nullified Black Codes

• Voting rights for women

Match the Following

• granted citizenship

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• granted voting rights

• 14th Amendment

• guaranteed equal protection under the law

• 15th Amendment

• prohibited racial discrimination in public accommodations

• 13th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Match the following

• Former slaves who were granted rights and opportunities

• Jim Crow Laws

• White Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• Carpetbaggers

• Restrictive laws aimed at controlling the labor and behavior of former slaves

• Scalawags

• State and local laws enforcing racial segregation

• Black Codes

• Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War

• Freedmen

What were the components of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

• South placed under military districts

• Required ratification of the 14th amendment

• Guarantee rights to vote for all male

• Robert E Lee thrown into federal prison

What will Johnson violate that will allow the Radical Republicans to impeach Andrew Johnson?

• The Emancipation Proclamation.
• The Civil Rights Act.
• The Reconstruction Amendments.
• The Tenure of Office Act.