reconstruction Flashcards
. The main goal of Reconstruction was to
readmit the former Confederate states into the Union
The Freedmen’s Bureau was a/an
organization established by Congress to aid poor southerners.
How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan?
The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of southern males take an oath of loyalty.
What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans?
It provided African Americans with a future free from slavery.
How did the Freedmen’s Bureau affect education for freed slaves in the South?
It established more schools and increased efforts to educate freed slaves.
Many Republican Congress members disagreed with Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction because they thought that
it would take more to restore the Union than for southern states to swear an oath of loyalty.
Lincoln’s main vision for Reconstruction was to
reunite the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible.
How did Reconstruction affect the social structure of the South?
African Americans began to demand the same economic and political rights as whites.
Why did Congress still refuse to readmit southern states into the Union in 1865, when Vice President Andrew Johnson became president?
The representatives of the new governments had been leaders of the Confederacy.
The Black Codes were
laws passed that limited the freedom of African Americans.
President Andrew Johnson’s plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials was to
grant them amnesty through presidential pardons.
Which statement describes working life at southern mills in the late 1800s?
Employees were overworked and suffered from asthma and brown-lung disease.
President Johnson’s administration went about setting up new southern governments by
allowing elections of state and federal representatives.
Southern governments believed they were justified in passing the Black Codes because they felt that
the government was intended for white men only and not African Americans.
The Black Codes required that African Americans sign work contracts so as to
replace the labor force that had been lost after the ending of slavery.
Southern governments passed the Black Codes to
limit the civil rights of freed African Americans.
Which of these was a restriction placed on African Americans under the Black Codes?
African Americans were prevented from owning guns.
Republicans proposed the Fourteenth Amendment before southern states were readmitted to the Union to
protect the Civil Rights Act from being overturned by the South.
The Fourteenth Amendment defined who could be considered a U.S. citizen. Which group did the Amendment exclude from U.S. citizenship?
Native Americans
Why did the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Johnson in 1868?
The president had fired a cabinet official without Senate approval.
President Johnson decided to reject the Freedmen’s Bureau because he
determined the Bureau to be unconstitutional.
The Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in March 1867, affected the makeup of the southern states by
dividing the South into five military districts controlled by a military commander.
Congress passed a law limiting President Johnson’s powers in 1868 because the president had
fired his secretary of war.
The Fifteenth Amendment protected the right of African American men to
vote
Congressional Republicans thought that passing the Fifteenth Amendment would help protect their Reconstruction plan because they believed
African Americans would vote to support the plan.
Which group criticized the Fifteenth Amendment?
women
Radical Republicans increased their influence in Congress by
supporting suffrage for African American men.
How did state legislatures in the South begin to change as a result of Reconstruction?
Many African Americans were elected as representatives to state legislatures.
