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TB9 16. Reconstruction, 1863–1877 Copyright Macmillan Learning. Powered by Cognero. Page 1 1.Abraham Lincoln saw reconstruction of the seceded states as the responsibility of the:

• executive branch.
• American people.
• legislature.
• Supreme Court.

ANSWER: a

2.Which statement describes the significance of pardons granted to rebel soldiers under the terms of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction?

• The pardons permitted the rebels to return home with limited currency.
• The pardons restored property (except enslaved people) to rebel soldiers.
• The pardons kept ex-Confederate leaders from returning to political power.
• The pardons forgave debts incurred during the war.

ANSWER: b

3.Which statement describes the requirements a Confederate state needed to meet to qualify for readmission into the Union under Abraham Lincoln's 1863 plan for reconstruction?

• The state legislature had to guarantee the right to vote to all former slaves.
• Fifty percent of the voting population needed to pledge allegiance to the United States before forming a new government.
• Ten percent of the voting population needed to take an oath of allegiance before forming a new government.
• High-ranking Confederate officials had to renounce their allegiance to the government in Richmond.

ANSWER: c

4.The goal of the 1864 Wade-Davis bill was to:

• guarantee freedmen equal protection before the law.
• confiscate the property of ex-Confederates.
• force three-fourths of voters in a former rebel state to take a loyalty oath.
• grant forty acres and a mule to every male former slave.

ANSWER: a

5.Which of these was outlawed under the Union army's system of compulsory free labor in the South during and immediately after the Civil War?

• whipping
• wage labor
• social discrimination
• verbal abuse

ANSWER: a

6.The intent of the Union military during their occupation in the Mississippi Valley during the Civil War was

to:

• promote social revolution.
• restore plantation agriculture.

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• create manufacturing jobs.
• stimulate economic prosperity.

ANSWER: b

• What did "Sherman land" and the establishment of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

demonstrate to southerners about Reconstruction?

• Whites would soon regain their control over Black laborers.
• Freedmen would have to work for their land.
• Formerly enslaved peopled would become independent landowners.
• Congress was committed to punish former slaveholders.

ANSWER: c

• Created by Congress in March 1865, the Freedmen's Bureau was responsible for:
• emancipating enslaved people.
• selling bonds at a discount to free Black people.
• providing financial assistance to free Black people.
• easing the transition of formerly enslaved people to freedom.

ANSWER: d

• Why did many freedmen flee white churches soon after emancipation?
• They disagreed with its theological teachings.
• They wanted religious autonomy.
• The Methodist Church rejected the newly freed African Americans.
• They associated Christianity with slavery and therefore abandoned it.

ANSWER: b

• Who opposed President Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan in 1865?
• Democratic legislators
• southern newspaper editors
• Republican legislators
• southern planters

ANSWER: c

• Why did President Johnson's quick reconstruction of ex-Confederate states shock reformers?
• His lenient terms for reconstruction belied his earlier states' rights stance.
• He had long expressed a desire to destroy the southern planter aristocracy.
• His harsh terms for reconstruction belied his earlier promises of leniency.
• He failed to follow through on his promise to grant the freedmen voting rights.

ANSWER: b

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Democrat than a Republican as president because he:

• advocated limitations on federal power.
• vetoed the Wade-Davis bill and supported federal subsidies.
• refused to support any aspect of Lincoln's reconstruction plan.
• attempted to empower the Freedmen's Bureau.

ANSWER: a

• Abraham Lincoln's and Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plans shared an emphasis on:
• full amnesty to all former rebel soldiers.
• limited voting rights for Black individuals.
• the confiscation of rebel property.
• ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

ANSWER: d

• When Mississippi rejected legislation that outlawed slavery and South Carolina refused to renounce

secession in 1865 and 1866, how did President Andrew Johnson respond?

• He refused to intervene.
• He denied the states' new constitutions.
• He neglected to pardon planters and Confederate officials.
• He sent the military into Mississippi and South Carolina.

ANSWER: a

• The black codes that many governments across the South adopted immediately after the Civil War:
• closely resembled re-enslavement of Black individuals.
• gave African Americans the right to vote.
• established separate facilities for African Americans.
• allowed African Americans to purchase guns.

ANSWER: a

• How did moderate Republicans and radical Republicans differ in 1865?
• Moderates championed Black equality, while radicals wanted to limit the rights of Black Americans.
• Moderates supported states' rights and limited federal involvement in the economy, while radicals wanted to expand

federal powers.

• Moderates supported Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plan, while radicals wanted to write their own.
• Moderates did not actively support Black voting rights and the distribution of confiscated lands to the freedmen, while

radicals did.

ANSWER: d

• Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 extraordinary?
• It made discrimination in state laws illegal.
• It declared martial law in the South.
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• It prolonged the life of the Freedmen's Bureau.

ANSWER: a

• How did the Fourteenth Amendment deal with voting rights?
• It explicitly granted all Black adults the right to vote.
• It gave Congress the right to reduce an intransigent state's representation.
• It granted the vote to adult Black males in all states.
• It phased in voting rights for Black people over a five-year period.

ANSWER: b

• Who was disappointed by the voting rights provisions in the Fourteenth Amendment?
• northern members of the Republican Party
• advocates of female suffrage
• Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists
• previously enslaved people in the South

ANSWER: b

• Which statement describes the result of President Andrew Johnson's plan to unite white opponents against

the Fourteenth Amendment for the election of 1866?

• The Democratic Party made unlikely gains.
• The National Union Party won all northern states.
• The Republicans won a resounding victory.
• Northern whites turned against Reconstruction.

ANSWER: c

• According to the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, before gaining readmission to Congress, a state had

to:

• allow men and women to vote on a new constitution.
• write a new constitution that guaranteed Black suffrage.
• elect a Republican governor.
• guarantee permanent employment for African Americans.

ANSWER: b

• Who was disappointed in the Military Reconstruction Act of 1867?
• radical Republicans who supported Black suffrage
• those who believed the law should not provide Black people with their own land
• Black men who did not own enough property to meet voting requirements
• those who advocated the redistribution of southern plantations to previously enslaved people

ANSWER: d

• Andrew Johnson was impeached on a charge that he:
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