Reconstruction Part 2 Test Review

What was the main goal of the Radical Republicans during the Reconstruction era?

• To restore the Southern states to the Union as quickly as possible

• To ensure equal rights for freed slaves and punish the former Confederate states

• To support President Andrew Johnson's policies

• To expand the United States' territory

Which statement best describes the beliefs of Andrew Johnson regarding Reconstruction?

• To restore the Southern states to the Union as quickly as possible

• To ensure equal rights for freed slaves and punish the former Confederate states

• To implement Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

• To compromise with Radical Republicans to expand some rights to former slaves

Which law did Congress pass to limit President Andrew Johnson's power, leading to his impeachment?

• The Civil Rights Act

• The Tenure of Office Act

• The Reconstruction Act

• The Emancipation Proclamation

What does it mean to impeach a president or other public official?

• To charge them with misconduct and potentially remove them from power

• To commend them on actions that benefit the nation

• To prevent a specific bill from becoming law, unless it's overridden by Congress

• To prevent a president from running for a third full term in office

True/False: Andrew Johnson is the president who was the closest to being removed from office after being impeached, as he was one vote in the Senate away from losing his power.

• True

• False

What was the primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To provide land to former Confederate soldiers

• To assist freed slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War

• To enforce the Black Codes

• To support the Ku Klux Klan

What was not an example of a duty that the Freedmen's Bureau carried out?

• Helped provide health care to and feed former slaves

• Helped build Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), like Fisk University in Nashville

• Helped former slaves find jobs and relocate family members that had been separated

• Helped to pass laws that promoted the segregation of people based on their race

This is the separation of people by their race/groups, such as the creation of separate black & white schools in Tennessee after the Civil War.

• Reconstruction

• Segregation

• Integration

• Assimilation

What were black codes?

• Laws that granted equal rights to African Americans

• Laws that restricted the freedom and rights of African Americans

• Codes used by the Union army during the Civil War

• Secret messages used by the Underground Railroad

What was an example of a black code that may have been passed immediately after Reconstruction?

• Not being able to learn how to read

• Not being able to vote

• Not being able to own or carry weapons

• Not being able to gather in public without a white person present

• All of these were examples of Black Codes