APEX USH 4.3.2 QUIZ Study Guide

As a condition of readmission to the Union for former Confederate states, President Abraham Lincoln wanted to require:

10 percent of Confederate voters in each state to pledge allegiance to the Union.

When it came to a plan for Reconstruction, on which point did President Lincoln and the Radical Republicans in Congress agree?

All former Confederate states should have to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.

How did the Fourteenth Amendment define a United States citizen?

As anyone who was born in the United States

As a way to preserve the social conditions of slavery after the end of the Civil War, many state legislatures in the South passed ____.

Black Codes

How did Radical Republicans respond to Black Codes passed by Southern state legislatures after the Civil War?

By blocking those states from rejoining the Union

Which statement best completes the graphic organizer showing President Grant's plan for Reconstruction? Grant voting rights or all Black men Stop violence in the South _________?_________________________

Enforce the legal changes of Reconstruction

Under the _____, formerly enslaved people were granted the right to vote if they were male.

Fifteenth Amendment

Which statement best completes the graphic organizer showing President Grant's plan for Reconstruction? Stop violence in the South Enforce the legal changes of Reconstruction _______________________?_____________________________________

Grant voting rights for all Black men

What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

It granted Black men the right to vote.

What was one of the duties of the Freedmen's Bureau following the Civil War?

Mediating labor contracts and disputes

What was one element of the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction?

Requiring Confederate states to approve the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution

Which statement best completes the graphic organizer showing President Grant's plan for Reconstruction? Grant voting rights for all Black men Enforce the legal changes of Reconstruction _____________________?_______________________________________

Stop those opposed to Reconstruction from committing violence

How was the Fourteenth Amendment different from the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

The Fourteenth Amendment had greater power under law.

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

As a condition for readmission to the Union, all Confederate states were required to approve the Thirteenth Amendment, which would:

abolish slavery within their states.

Passed in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment:

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

As one part of his plan for Reconstruction, President Abraham Lincoln required that:

all states must accept the end of slavery through a constitutional amendment.

The Fifteenth Amendment:

allowed Black men to vote in elections.

As a part of their Reconstruction plan, Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to:

ban all former Confederate leaders from holding political office for life.

Under the Fourteenth Amendment, anyone who was _____ would be granted citizenship and entitled to equal protection under the law.

born in the United States

One element of the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction was to:

divide plantation land into plots to be redistributed to formerly enslaved people.

One way the Freedmen's Bureau helped formerly enslaved people transition to lives of freedom was by:

establishing schools that offered formerly enslaved people basic education.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the first federal legislation to:

grant citizenship to all American-born people.

Before the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the 1866 Civil Rights Act was the first federal law to:

guarantee equal protection under the law.

Both the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment:

guaranteed equal protection under the law for all U.S. citizens.

The Black Codes were passed as a means of

preserving the social conditions of slavery as it existed before the Civil War.

Unlike the Radical Republicans in Congress, President Lincoln wanted to:

provide payments to former slaveholders to compensate for the loss of enslaved people.

Unlike President Lincoln, the Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to:

require 50 percent of all Confederate voters to pledge allegiance to the Union.

One element of Abraham Lincoln's vision for Reconstruction was to:

restore the Union as peacefully as possible.

One of the services provided by the Freedmen's Bureau was:

reuniting formerly enslaved people with their relatives.