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Reconstruction
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- Q1The main goal of Reconstruction was toreadmit the former Confederate states to the Unionprovide newly freed slaves with land and moneycause conflictestablish black codes30s
- Q2The Freedmen's Bureau was a/angroup created to establish rules and regulationsgroup designed to aid Reconstruction by building new buildings for the Southorganization made up of newly freed African Americansorganization established by Congress to aid poor southerners30s
- Q3The place where Lee surrendered to Grant, and is considered the end of the warGettysburgBull RunAppomattox Court HouseLee's Tomb30s
- Q4Many republican Congress members disagreed with Lincoln's 10% plan for Reconstruction because they thoughtThose who supported the Confederacy should be able to vote and hold officeLincoln's plan was too harshthe percentage of the oath of loyalty was too highit would take more to restore the Union than only 10% of the southern states to sear an oath30s
- Q5The Radical Republicans put these people in charge of the south to enforce Reconstruction lawsmath teachersDemocratsmilitaryPresident Johnson30s
- Q6The system that created "financial slavery" when old plantations were divided up and rented to poor whites and ex-slaves to farm but were always in debt to the landownerscalawagsfreedmensharecropperscarpetbaggers30s
- Q7The northerners who came south during Reconstrction were callednemsgermitesscalawagscarpetbaggersradicals30s
- Q8How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from Lincoln's 10% plan?The Wade-Davis Bill required 10% of the southern males to take an oath of loyaltyThe Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of southern males take an oath of loyaltyThe Wade-Davis Bill allowed slaveryThe Wade-Davis Bill allowed Confederate supporters to hold office30s
- Q9The Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in March 1867, affected the makeup of the southern states bydividing the south into new states controlled by leaders who had not been supportive of the confederacycreating a new boundary that separated the North from the states that had seceded from the Unioncreating new governments and appointing African Americansdividing the south into five military districts controlled by a military commander30s
- Q10The verdict of Plessy v. Ferguson said thatlegalized segregation as long as separate but equal facilities were provideddecided that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutionalended the reign of the oppressive Jim Crow Laws in the United Statesstated that the Fourteenth Amendment could only be applied at the state level30s
- Q11How did members of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate their anger towards African Americans?They held peaceful protestsThe used violence and terrorThey voted against DemocratsThey lobbied Congress30s
- Q12What are Jim Crow Laws?They protected civil rightsThey were used to enforce segregationThey enforced African Americans right to voteThey prevented African Americans from holding political office30s
- Q13The Black Codes werelaws passed that provided economic support for freed slaveslaws passed that limited the freedom of African Americansidentification numbers assigned to individual slavesdemands from African Americans30s
- Q14True or False: At the end of the war, the Union charged all Confedrates with trason and put the soldiers in prisonTrueFalse30s
- Q15True or False: After the war, Lincoln stepped down as President because people didn't like his Reconstruction PlanFalseTrue30s