Lesson Quiz 10-1: Reconstruction

1. President Johnson, unlike Lincoln, believed a radical policy was needed to bring the South back into the Union.

• True

• False

By the end of 1868, none of the former Confederate states had met all the requirements to be readmitted to the Union.

• True

• False

3. When the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Johnson, the main charge was that he had broken the law by refusing to uphold the Tenure of Office Act.

• True

• False

4. In 1865 many members of Congress were hopeful Southern voters would elect former Confederate officers and political leaders to Congress.

• True

• False

5. The black codes varied from state to state, but they all seemed intended to keep African Americans in a condition similar to slavery.

• True

• False

The actions of the Freedmen's Bureau helped to prevent:

• economic recovery

• mass starvation

• plantation labor

• special courts

President Johnson proclaimed that each former Confederate state had to call a constitutional convention to revoke its ordinance of secession and ratify the:

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Military Reconstruction Act

• Thirteenth Amendment

Having gained the right to ________________, African Americans quickly began to organize politically and to take part in governing the South.

• vote

• own land

• travel freely

• attend any school

Most white Southerners scorned the ________________ Party, partly because it included Northerners and African Americans.

• Republican

• Democratic

• Libertarian

• Green

3. ________________, founded in 1868 in Virginia, was an agricultural school first organized by Mary Peake.

• Hampton Institute

• Virginia Tech

• University of Virginia

• James Madison University