Term
What was Lincoln’s primary goal immediately
following the Civil War?
A. punishing the rebel states
B. improving the lives of former slaves
C. reunifying the country
D. paying off the debts of the war |
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| C. Reunifying the country |
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Term
In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were
most concerned with ________.
A. securing civil rights for freed slaves
B. barring ex-Confederates from political
office
C. seeking restitution from Confederate states
D. preventing Andrew Johnson’s ascent to the presidency |
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Definition
| A. securing civil rights for freed slaves. |
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Term
| What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment? |
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Definition
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Term
| What was the difference between the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation? |
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Definition
| The Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime Executive Order that only set slaves free in areas still in rebellion and could potentially be reversed. |
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Term
Which of the following was not one of the
functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
A. collecting taxes
B. reuniting families
C. establishing schools
D. helping workers secure labor contracts |
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Term
Which person or group was most responsible
for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?
A. President Johnson
B. northern voters
C. southern voters
D. Radical Republicans in Congress |
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Definition
| D. Radical Republicans in Congress |
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Term
| What was the goal of the black codes? |
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Definition
| They were designed to maintain white supremacy and control over African Americans after slavery ended. By restricting the freedoms of freed people and attempting to keep them economically dependent on white landowners. |
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Term
Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the
following did former Confederate states not need to do in order to rejoin the Union?
A. pass the Fourteenth Amendment
B. pass the Fifteenth Amendment
C. revise their state constitution
D. allow all freed men over the age of 21 to vote |
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Definition
| B. pass the Fifteenth Amendment |
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Term
The House of Representatives impeached
Andrew Johnson over ________.
A. the Civil Rights Act
B. the Fourteenth Amendment
C. the Military Reconstruction Act
D. the Tenure of Office Act |
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Definition
| D. the Tenure of Office Act |
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Term
| What were the benefits of the Fifteenth Amendment? |
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Definition
Gave African American men the constitutional right to vote.
Expanded political participation and representation for Black Americans. |
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Term
| What were the drawbacks of the Fifteenth Amendment? |
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Definition
Did not grant voting rights to women.
Failed to prohibit literacy tests, poll taxes, and other methods later used to disenfranchise Black voters. |
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Term
Which of the following is not one of the
methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate blacks and white
sympathizers?
A. burning public schools
B. petitioning Congress
C. murdering freedmen who tried to vote
D. threatening, beating, and killing those who disagreed with them |
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Term
Which of the following was the term
southerners used for a white southerner who tried
to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?
A. scalawag
B. carpetbagger
C. redeemer
D. white knight |
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Definition
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Term
Why was it difficult for southern free blacks
to gain economic independence after the Civil
War? |
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Definition
| Most freed people lacked land, money, tools, and credit. Many became trapped in sharecropping and the crop-lien system, which created cycles of debt. |
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