Review Questions

Review Questions

1. 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

2. 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

3. What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment? How was it different from the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. 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

5. Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?

President Johnson
northern voters
southern voters
Radical Republicans in Congress

6. What was the goal of the Black codes?

7. 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

8. The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over ________.

the Civil Rights Act
the Fourteenth Amendment
the Military Reconstruction Act
the Tenure of Office Act

9. What were the benefits and drawbacks of the Fifteenth Amendment?

10. 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

11. 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

12. Why was it difficult for southern free Black people to gain economic independence after the Civil War?