Chapter 19 Reconstruction
1.
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction included all the following points EXCEPT ____________
A) setting up state governments by 10 percent of voters who swore loyalty to the Union.
B) readmission of Southern states that had set up new governments.
C) granting control of Reconstruction to Congress.
D) forgiveness for Southerners who pledged loyalty to the Union and accepted the elimination of slavery.
2.
Abraham Lincoln strongly urged a constitutional amendment that would ____________
A) require Southern states to pay the Union war debt.
B) declare the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional.
C) give African Americans free college education.
D) abolish slavery.
3.
Members of Congress who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction were known as ____________
A) Confederate officials.
B) Our American Cousins.
C) Radical Republicans.
D) Wade-Davis.
4.
Congress brought impeachment charges against President Andrew Johnson because he ____________
A) had assumed so much power during the Civil War.
B) was a self-educated man who hated wealthy planters.
C) violated an act of Congress by removing a cabinet member without Senate approval.
D) vetoed the Reconstruction Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
5.
As a result of the final vote in his impeachment trial, President Andrew Johnson ____________
A) remained in office.
B) demanded the Supreme Court settle the issue.
C) won election in 1868.
D) was removed from the presidency.
6.
The winner of the presidential election of 1868 was ____________
A) Thaddeus Stevens.
B) Edwin Stanton.
C) Ulysses S. Grant.
D) Andrew Johnson.
7.
The primary mission of the Freedmen's Bureau was to ____________
A) help war widows hold on to their property.
B) restore the value of Confederate money.
C) give food and clothing to poor white Southerners.
D) help African Americans adjust to freedom.
8.
The Fifteenth Amendment gave ____________
A) African Americans the right to serve as justices of the peace in the District of Columbia.
B) President Ulysses S. Grant the right to destroy the Ku Klux Klan.
C) all male citizens, including African Americans, the right to vote.
D) poor Southern whites and African Americans a way to buy cheap land.
9.
During Reconstruction, Southern African Americans served in all the following public offices EXCEPT ____________
A) representatives in the House of Representatives.
B) vice president of the United States.
C) United States senators.
D) lieutenant governors
10.
The African American naval hero who represented South Carolina in the House of Representatives until 1887 was ____________
A) Robert Smalls.
B) Alexander Stephens.
C) Blanche K. Bruce.
D) Hiram Revels.
11.
Southerners who joined Republican governments to try to rebuild the South's economy were nicknamed ____________
A) sharecroppers.
B) tenant farmers.
C) scalawags.
D) carpetbaggers.
12.
The goal of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was to ____________
A) protect the voting rights of African Americans in the North.
B) put whites in control of Reconstruction governments.
C) limit racial discrimination in public places.
D) overthrow Republican rule in the South.
13.
In 1883 the Supreme Court declared which of the following unconstitutional?
A) Civil Rights Act of 1875
B) Reconstruction Act
C) Freedmen's Bureau
D) Fifteenth Amendment
14.
In return for supporting him for president, Rutherford B. Hayes promised Southern Democrats all the following actions EXCEPT ____________
A) the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
B) the appointment of a Southerner to his cabinet.
C) the enforcement of segregation laws.
D) economic help for the South.
15.
Southern laws that kept African Americans separate from whites were called ____________
A) terrorist acts.
B) Jim Crow.
C) carpetbaggers.
D) filibusters.