History Chapter 16 Reconstruction

During the bitter days of Reconstruction, most Northerners A) believed in giving black men the vote. B) opposed true equality for blacks. C) completely supported the Radicals. D) supported black political equality, but not social equality

B) opposed true equality for blacks.

In April, 1866, for the first time in American history, a major piece of legislation became law over a presidential veto. It was the A) Civil Rights Act. B) Wade-Davis Act. C) Thirteenth Amendment. D) Freedman's Bureau Act

A) Civil Rights Act.

President Lincoln's proposed plan for reconstructing the Union A) permitted states to apply for readmission after 10 percent of the qualified voters took an oath of allegiance. B) divided the South into zones of military occupation. C) confiscated land from wealthy white Southerners to provide forty acres and a mule for each former slave. D) permitted states to apply for readmission after a majority of the qualified voters took an oath of allegiance.

A) permitted states to apply for readmission after 10 percent of the qualified voters took an oath of allegiance

During Reconstruction, their opponents called southern white Republicans A) scalawags. B) redeemers. C) Uncle Toms. D) carpetbaggers.

A) scalawags.

President Johnson alienated moderate Republicans when he A) vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills. B) refused to support the Fourteenth Amendment. C) agreed to compromise with Charles Sumner. D) pardoned Jefferson Davis.

A) vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills.

The ________ Amendment to the Constitution broadly defined American citizenship and "reduced the power of all the states." A) Thirteenth B) Fourteenth C) Fifteenth D) Sixteenth

B) Fourteenth

In 1864, Congress rejected Lincoln's Reconstruction plan when they passed the A) Kansas Bill. B) Wade-Davis Bill. C) Freedmen's Bureau Bill. D) First Reconstruction Act.

B) Wade-Davis Bill.

Following the passage of the Second Reconstruction Act, white Southerners A) quickly cooperated with the Radical Republicans. B) continued to resist federal policy. C) were able to overturn most black governments. D) threatened to form secessionist governments in exile.

B) continued to resist federal policy.

The measures that, among other things, restricted former slaves to working in farming and domestic service were the A) Reconstruction Acts. B) Scalawag Codes. C) Black Codes. D) Jim Crow laws.

C) Black Codes.

The Thirteenth Amendment A) authorized presidential reconstruction. B) gave blacks the right vote. C) abolished slavery. D) authorized the income tax.

C) abolished slavery.

Reconstruction was a period of A) judicial supremacy. B) political inaction and indifference. C) congressional supremacy. D) executive expansion.

C) congressional supremacy.

The "ultra" Radical Republicans A) wanted to protect freedmen from exploitation, but not give them the vote. B) ignored black rights. C) demanded immediate civil and political equality for blacks. D) accepted the southern states restored under the Johnson Reconstruction plan.

C) demanded immediate civil and political equality for blacks.

Under Johnson's Reconstruction plan, southern voters A) calmed the North by accepting the obvious results of the war. B) pacified the North by their devotion to the Union. C) provoked the North by electing former Confederate leaders to serve in Congress. D) appeased the North by offering to provide former slaves with land.

C) provoked the North by electing former Confederate leaders to serve in Congress.

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution became embroiled in a debate between black rights and the rights of A) Native Americans. B) non-English speaking immigrants. C) white northern women. D) Irish immigrants.

C) white northern women.

The Unionist Democrat placed on the Lincoln ticket to assure victory in 1864 was A) Ulysses S. Grant. B) George B. McClellan. C) Horatio Seymour. D) Andrew Johnson.

D) Andrew Johnson.

The ________ Amendment prohibited states from denying black men the right to vote. A) Twelfth B) Thirteenth C) Fourteenth D) Fifteenth

D) Fifteenth

Andrew Johnson's fundamental goal was to A) guarantee black political rights. B) preserve the economic power of the southern planters. C) fund public education for blacks. D) assist poor whites with free homesteads and public education.

D) assist poor whites with free homesteads and public education.

President Lincoln believed that Reconstruction should A) be controlled exclusively by Congress. B) harshly punish the white South for its treason. C) abolish slavery and divide the plantation lands among the former slaves. D) avoid vindictiveness toward the South.

D) avoid vindictiveness toward the South.

Under the First Reconstruction Act of March, 1867, the former states of the Confederacy (excluding Tennessee) were A) allowed to elect members to the Senate, but not to the House. B) required to confiscate large plantations in the former Confederacy and divide the land among the former slaves. C) readmitted to the Union after each ratified the Thirteenth Amendment. D) divided into five military districts.

D) divided into five military districts.

Andrew Johnson has been described as A) extremely friendly toward black rights. B) an eager defender of traditional southern aristocrats. C) hating all things southern. D) specializing in opposition and alienating members of his own party.

D) specializing in opposition and alienating members of his own party.

In President Johnson's clash with Congress over Reconstruction policy, Johnson's worst enemy was A) Thaddeus Stevens. B) Charles Sumner. C) Benjamin Wade. D) the president himself.

D) the president himself.

When Lincoln spoke of a "pernicious abstraction" he was referring to A) the seizure of the Trent. B) whether 10 percent or 50 percent of the southern voters needed to take a loyalty oath. C) Copperhead activities in the Ohio River Valley. D) whether the South had indeed left the Union.

D) whether the South had indeed left the Union.