Reconstruction
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- Q1rebuilding after the warReconstructionEra of Good FeelingGilded AgeCivil War30s
- Q2President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction offered a general pardon to Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States and accept the Union's concerningfood suppliesslaveryelectionsprisons30s
- Q3Some Northers believed the Freedmen's Bureau should seize lands of Confederates to distribute toUnion troopsprisoners of waremancipated African Americannorthern farmers30s
- Q4One of President Johnson's proclamations states that each former Confederate state had to call a constitutional convention to revoke its ordinance of secession and ratify the13th Amendment14th AmendmentMilitary Reconstruction Act15th Amdendment30s
- Q5Who did the Republican convention unanimously nominate for president in 1868?Robert E. LeeUlysses S. GrantAndrew JohnsonEdwin M. Stanton30s
- Q6The Military Reconstruction Act divided the former Confederacy, except for Tennessee, into fivecongressional districtsstatesReconstruction Zonemilitary districts30s
- Q7Fearing that the Civil Rights Act might to be overturned in court, the Republicans introduced the15th Amendment14th Amendmentblack codes13th Amendment30s
- Q8During the 1870s, Reconstruction governments in the South built a comprehension publictransportation systemhospital systemswelfare systemschool system30s
- Q9The outcome of the election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president is know ascarpetbaggingthe Compromise of 1877the Panic of 1873debt peonage30s
- Q10The main goal of Radical Republicans during Reconstruction included all of the following EXCEPTguaranteeing African Americans' right to vote in the Southpreventing confederate leaders from returning to powerguaranteeing seats in congress for African Americansmaking the Republican Party a powerful institution in the South30s
- Q11Some carpetbaggers wereSouthern African American freemen who moved to the NorthSoutherners who favored Republicans plans for developing the economywhite Southerners who moved to the north to escape the South's turmoilNortherners who moved to the South to take advantage of the war-torn region30s
- Q12Reconstruction ended whenHayes pulled federal troops out of the Southindustrialization began in the SouthHayes was electedHayes submitted a plan for a "New South"30s
- Q13Originally, the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was todrive out all Northern influences and return to a plantation system in the Southremove African Americans from public officedrive out Union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic Partyterrorize African Americans freedmen to force them to move to the North30s
- Q14Some scalawags wereNorthern schoolteachers who educated whites and African Americanwealthy planters who were looking for a way to regain powerAfrican Americans who had won office in the Southern StatesSoutherners who were owners of small farms who did not want wealthy planters to regain power30s
- Q15Hundreds of formerly enslaved people served as delegates to state constitutionalseminarsconventionsofficesrallies30s