Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Quiz

Question 1

Black codes

Answer 1

laws passed in the south just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and woman, and allowing plantation owners to take advantage of African American workers

Question 2

Override

Answer 2

to reject or defeat something that has already been decided

Question 3

Impeach

Answer 3

to formally charge a public official with misconduct in office

Question 4

What is the fifteenth amendment?

Answer 4

It guaranteed that state and federal governments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 5

Why did people want to impeach the president?

Answer 5

because he suspended Edwin Stanton and then fired him, breaking the Tenure of Office Act

Question 6

Suspend

Answer 6

to stop temporarily

Question 7

What is the Tenure of Office Act?

Answer 7

the president could not remove government officials, including members of his own cabinet, without the Senate’s approval

Question 8

Who was Edwin Stanton?

Answer 8

He was the Secretary of War. He was in charge of the army and a supporter of the Radical Reconstruction.

Question 9

Which 7 states got reentered into the union in 1868?

Answer 9

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia

Question 10

Which 3 states rejoined the union in 1870?

Answer 10

Mississippi, Virginia, Texas

Question 11

What was the First Reconstruction Act of 1867?

Answer 11

First, it required that the states had to form new governments. Next, the act divided the 10 states into 5 military districts, the military districts had to be governed by an army general. Last, the act guaranteed African American men the right to vote in state elections.

Question 12

What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

Answer 12

The law gave the federal government power to get involved in state affairs to protect African American’s rights. It also guaranteed the citizenship to African Americans.

Question 13

What was the outcome of the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford?

Answer 13

The supreme court had ruled that African Americans were not citizens (the Civil Rights Act of 1866 aimed to counter this decision).

Question 14

Who was Charles Summer?

Answer 14

He was a Radical Republican that aimed to not only rebuild the South, but to also remake Southern society.

Question 15

What kind of new powers did the freedman’s Burau gain?

Answer 15

The burau could now set up special courts to try persons charged with violating African Americans’ rights.

Question 16

Did president Johnson like the new freedman’s burau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 or did he veto both of them?

Answer 16

He vetoed both of the bills

Question 17

What happened after president Johnson vetoed both the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the new Freedman’s burau?

Answer 17

The Republicans in Congress where able to override both vetoes, and both the bills became a law

Question 18

What was the fourteenth amendment?

Answer 18

It stated that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.