Topic 10 Lesson 2 Quiz

What was a main reason that Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction was not enacted?

• A. The Southern economy was not industrialized enough.

• B. Southern Democrats refused to accept the terms of the plan.

• C. Radical Democrats thought his plan was too harsh.

• D. Radical Republicans thought his plan was too easy.

The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to

• A. collect reparation payments for African Americans from white plantation owners.

• B. recruit former enslaved persons to run for elected office.

• C. help African Americans in the South adjust to life after slavery.

• D. guide enslaved African Americans to freedom in the North.

Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction required Southern states to ratify

• A. the Fourteenth Amendment.

• B. the Thirteenth Amendment.

• C. the first Reconstruction Act.

• D. the Black Codes.

President Johnson changed the course of Reconstruction in the South from Lincoln’s plan by

• A. making rejoining the Union easy for the South.

• B. punishing and humbling Confederate leaders.

• C. insisting every Southern swear loyalty to the Union.

• D. allowing Southerners to govern themselves.

Republicans in Congress believed that passing the Fifteenth Amendment would

• A. help African Americans protect themselves against unfair treatment by white citizens.

• B. prepare the nation to extend the vote to women.

• C. ensure that no state would attempt to practice slavery again.

• D. protect the life, liberty, and property of all citizens.

Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election of 1868, in part because of the

• A. strong hatred most white Southern voters felt toward Democrats.

• B. support he received from outgoing president Andrew Johnson.

• C. overwhelming support from African American voters.

• D. recent passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.