Reconstruction Quiz

Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction included all of the following except ____.

• each state had to support Emancipation

• a rebel state could rejoin the Union as soon as 10 percent of the people who voted in the 1860 presidential election took an oath of allegiance to the United States

• amnesty to all Southerners, except high-ranking military officers and government officials

• a rebel state could rejoin the Union as soon as 50 percent of the people who voted in the 1860 presidential election took an oath of allegiance to the United States

How did Radical Republicans respond to the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction?

• Radical Republicans supported Lincoln's plan.

• Radical Republicans wanted harsher requirements and punishments for the South.

• Radical Republicans believed Lincoln's plan was too hard on the South.

• Radical Republicans responded with a compromise for Reconstruction that immediately went into effect.

Johnson's Reconstruction plan differed from Lincoln's because____.

• Johnson's plan was harsher on the South than Lincoln's plan

• Johnson's plan was similar to the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction

• Johnson's plan was similar to Lincoln's plan; however, Johnson's belief in states' rights allowed rebel states to enter the Union with few requirements

• Johnson's plan called for more rights for Freedmen than Lincoln's plan did

The black codes were created in response to______.

• the question of how to define the status of former slaves and how to address labor shortages

• the need to protect freedmen from white militant groups

• the belief that freedmen should have the same rights with whites

• the freedmen’s desire for a society separate from whites

Although the black codes established some rights for Freedmen, the codes______.

• all but re-enslaved African Americans

• forbade African Americans from owning property

• prevented African Americans from attending school

• refused to recognize slave marriages

Literacy, the ability to travel, and a strong sense of family and community were important for freedmen for all of the following reasons except______.

• the ability to travel could open new possibilities for freedmen

• literacy could lead to more opportunities for freedmen

• a sense of family and community helped build networks of support

• African Americans had all of these during slavery, and they wanted to hold on to their traditions

Sherman’s Reservation plan was controversial because______.

• it suggested that coastal lands, including the region’s largest rice plantations, be given to slave families

• it was designed as a permanent solution for the housing and settling of thousands of slaves

• Sherman wanted American Indians and African Americans to live on the same land

• it called for integrated communities of white and black South Carolinians

The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Union League were both established to address what major issue in the South?

• Easing white Southerners’ fears of racial tensions

• The integration of whites and African Americans in the South

• The rights of freedmen

• To protect ex-Confederate leaders’ rights during Reconstruction

Scalawags were viewed by many white Southerners as ________.

• heroes

• traitors

• corrupt Northerners

• loyal to the South

As a result of tenant farming and the crop lien system, many African Americans in the South ________.

• entered into a cycle of poverty and debt

• were able to own their own land

• became wealthy from the crops they grew

• did not have to answer to white merchants and planters