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Questions

1. Which of the following was true of President Abraham Lincoln's 10% Plan?

a. It would have pardoned all Confederates, excluding the top 10% of high-ranking officials such as Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.

b. It said that 10% of the newly freed slaves would be immediately registered to vote while the others would register independently.

c. It required at least 10% of the voting population of 1860 to taken an oath saying that they never supported the Confederacy.

d. It called for a majority of voters and government officials in 10% of the Confederate states to take an oath of future allegiance to the United States.

e. It required at least 10% of the Southern voting population in 1860 to take an oath of future allegiance to the United States.

2. What was the main goal of black families in the Reconstruction era?

a. Work for wages on plantations.

b. Own their own farms.

c. Get revenge against former owners.

d. Reconnect with their African roots.

e. Perform typical domestic duties.

3. Which of the following was NOT a focus of the Freedman's Bureau's work?

a. Helped freed people gain labor contracts to work for wages.

b. Provided low cost housing for struggling black families.

c. Established public schools for blacks and poor whites.

d. Helped reunite black families that had been separated by slavery.

e. Delivered food to blacks and poor whites in the South.

4. Why was President Johnson at odds with Congress throughout his presidency?

a. He was to reinstitute slavery in the South after the Civil War.

b. He was a Democrat and Congress was controlled by Radical Republicans who thought all Democrats should be banned from holding federal office.

c. He wanted racial equality, while the Congress was controlled by white supremacists.

d. He believed that the President should be able to make laws, not the Congress.

e. He believed Reconstruction efforts should be mild and short-lived while the Republicans in Congress believed there should be more punitive measures.

5. What did the 13th Amendment do?

a. Called for racial and sexual equality before the law.

b. Freed slaves in the South but not in the border states.

c. Encouraged states to abolish slavery to stay in Congress.

d. Gave blacks the right to vote and hold office in the United States.

e. Permanently abolished slavery in the United States.

6. What are the respective roles of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate during an impeachment process like that of President Johnson?

a. The House is the judge, then the Senate is the judge.

b. The Senate is the prosecution, the House is the judge.

c. The House is the prosecution, the Senate is the defnese.

d. The Senate is the prosecution, the House is the defense.

e. The House is the prosecution, the Senate is the judge.

7. What ended the Reconstruction period in the South after the Civil War?

a. The passage of the 1875 Civil Rights Act which gave access to public facilities such as restaurants and public transportation.

b. The recovery of the Southern economy to the point where no more Northern intervention was necessary.

c. Rutherford B. Hayes' promise to remove all federal troops from the South in 1877 in exchange for Southern Democratic support of his presidency.

d. Corruption scandals in President Grant's administration forced the end of Reconstruction policies.

e. Ku Klux Klan electoral victories in key Southern states allowed them to gain significant political control in state legislatures.

8. Which of the following was true of the Ku Klux Klan?

a. It often operated as a paramilitary supporters of the Democratic Party.

b. It used pamphlets and newspaper columns to fight for the repeal of the 15th Amendment.

c. The U.S. Supreme Court prevented it from intimidating African Americans.

d. It was founded in 1866 by former Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

e. It switched from intimidating black people to attacking Catholics after 1870.

9. What economic challenges did freed African Americans face in the South during Reconstruction?

a. Never-ending debt to landowners and employers.

b. Low wages for sharecropping.

c. Lack of job opportunities forced homelessness.

d. Influx of Irish immigrants lowering wages.

e. Difficulty getting approval for bank mortgages to purchase land.

10. Why were some Southern politicians called "redeemers" in the 1870s?

a. They were seeking to "redeem" the Southern loss in the Civil War.

b. They were seeking to "redeem" their state from Northern control.

c. They were seeking to "redeem' African American rights from white supremacists.

d. They were pursuing economic plans that included redeeming favors from European nations.

e. They were seeking to strip Northern carpetbaggers of their economic gains.