Reconstruction and Amendments

Question 1

Southerners used what two things to intimidate their former slaves?

Accepted Answer

violence and intimidation

Question 2

The most important contribution of the Freedmen's Bureau was the building of over 1,000 what?

Accepted Answer

schools

Question 3

Southerners who supported the new congressional reconstruction were called?

Accepted Answer

scalawags

Question 4

While Congress was not in session, Johnson allowed southern states to form a new government.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Who pushed for the distribution of forty acres and a mule to African Americans after the war?

Accepted Answer

General Sherman

Question 6

What was the aim of Congress?

Accepted Answer

To make sure the Civil War had not been fought in vain.

Question 7

What were Northerners who came down south during Reconstruction called?

Accepted Answer

carpetbaggers

Question 8

Sharecropping was an exchange of what for what?

Accepted Answer

labor; land

Question 9

What was Johnson's aim for reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

He wanted southerners to acknowledge his power., He wanted to humiliate the southern elite., He wanted southerners to ask for a presidential pardon.

Question 10

Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in an effort to avenge the south's defeat.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Lincoln never promised an easy Reconstruction in order to persuade southern states to surrender

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

Whose aim was to preserve the Union and end the Civil War as quickly as possible?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln

Question 13

The Black Codes were meant to keep Africans Americans in positions of...

Accepted Answer

inferiority (beneath the rest of society)

Question 14

When did Lincoln's reconstruction policy change?

Accepted Answer

within a year of his assassination

Question 15

The 15th Amendment

Accepted Answer

gave all males (including A.A. citizens) the right to vote.

Question 16

Southerners who disagreed with the Congressional Reconstruction policy called it the what?

Accepted Answer

Radical Reconstruction

Question 17

Andrew Johnson was the __th President of the United States.

Accepted Answer

17

Question 18

Which was NOT an aim of the southern African Americans?

Accepted Answer

to move to the North as quickly as possible.

Question 19

The aims of Reconstruction were different for different groups of people.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Which of the following did the Freedmen's Bureau not provide?

Accepted Answer

land and businesses

Question 21

The 14th Amendment

Accepted Answer

gave African Americans their citizenship.

Question 22

The aim of southerners was to...

Accepted Answer

return back to their normal lives as soon as possible.

Question 23

What was the terrorist group that violated the constitutional right of African Americans?

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 24

Freedmen entered into agreements with the white landowners to trade their labor for land.

Accepted Answer

sharecropping, tenant farming

Question 25

The initial reaction of freedmen to emancipation ranged from exhilaration to hesitancy to ?

Accepted Answer

fear

Question 26

The 13th Amendment...

Accepted Answer

abolished slavery everywhere in the United States.

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