Review Questions
- What was Lincoln’s primary goal immediately following the Civil War?
- punishing the rebel states
- improving the lives of formerly enslaved people
- reunifying the country
- paying off the debts of the war
- In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were most concerned with ________.
- securing civil rights for formerly enslaved people
- barring ex-Confederates from political office
- seeking restitution from Confederate states
- preventing Andrew Johnson’s ascent to the presidency
- What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment? How was it different from the Emancipation Proclamation?
- Which of the following was not one of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
- collecting taxes
- reuniting families
- establishing schools
- helping workers secure labor contracts
- Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?
- President Johnson
- northern voters
- southern voters
- Radical Republicans in Congress
- What was the goal of the Black codes?
- Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the following did former Confederate states not need to do in order to rejoin the Union?
- pass the Fourteenth Amendment
- pass the Fifteenth Amendment
- revise their state constitution
- allow all freedmen over the age of 21 to vote
- The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over ________.
- the Civil Rights Act
- the Fourteenth Amendment
- the Military Reconstruction Act
- the Tenure of Office Act
- What were the benefits and drawbacks of the Fifteenth Amendment?
- Which of the following is not one of the methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate Black people and White sympathizers?
- burning public schools
- petitioning Congress
- murdering freedmen who tried to vote
- threatening, beating, and killing those who disagreed with them
- Which of the following was the term Southerners used for a White Southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?
- scalawag
- carpetbagger
- redeemer
- white knight
- Why was it difficult for Southern free Black people to gain economic independence after the Civil War?