Question 1

What was the name of the period, beginning in 1867, when the Republicans, who had control in both houses of Congress, took charge of Reconstruction.

Accepted Answer

Radical Reconstruction

Answer

Johnson's Plan

Answer

Presidential Reconstruction

Answer

The 10% Plan

Question 2

Which was NOT an accomplishment of Radical Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

An end to segregation

Answer

Guarantee of freedmen to vote

Answer

New state governments that included Black Americans.

Answer

Ratification of the 14th Amendment

Question 3

Which of the following were included in "Black Codes"?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Answer

Black Americans were forbidden to possess and/or carry firearms.

Answer

Local officials were given permission to arrest unemployed Black Americans, fine them for vagrancy, and hire them out to satisfy the fine.

Answer

Black Americans were forbidden to own or lease farms and take up any job other than that of a plantation worker or domestic servant.

Question 4

What was the importance of the first Civil Rights Act (1866)

Accepted Answer

It defined US citizenship and affirmed that all citizens were equally protected by the law.

Answer

It made the poll tax illegal.

Answer

It guaranteed that all Americans could vote.

Answer

It made literacy tests illegal.

Question 5

What were the main aspects of Radical Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Answer

States must accept the 14th Amendment.

Answer

It combined the former Confederacy into five military districts governed by military commanders.

Answer

Voters elected representatives to make up new state constitutions which had to include voting rights for Black men (15th Amendment).

Question 6

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

Accepted Answer

Violation of the Tenure of Office Act

Answer

Lying before Congress

Answer

Refusal to accept the Reconstruction Amendments

Answer

<P>Treason</P>

Question 7

Whose election, following the Compromise of 1877, effectively ended Radical Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Rutherford Hayes

Answer

Ulysses Grant

Answer

Andrew Johnson

Answer

James Garfield

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