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Ch. 12 Reading Quiz

  1. All of the following were Southern reactions to Reconstructionexcept
  2. Enactment of black codes by southern legislatures
  3. Refusal to form provisional governments to become readmitted to the Union
  4. Election of former Confederates to Congress
  5. Resistance to the 14th Amendment
  1. Which of the following amendments contains the “equal protection” clause?
  2. 12th
  3. 13th
  4. 14th
  5. 15th
  1. Abraham Lincoln’s approach to Reconstruction could be summarized as an effort to
  2. Punish the South
  3. Delegate Reconstruction to Congress
  4. Follow the South’s plan for Reconstruction
  5. Make it relatively easy for the South to return to the Union
  1. Laws enacted in the South to limit the rights of freed slaves were called
  2. KKK laws
  3. Black Codes
  4. Fugitive Slave Acts
  5. Resistance Codes
  1. The Radical Republicans believed that former slaves should
  2. Not be granted citizenship
  3. Be granted citizenship, including the right to vote for men
  4. Be granted citizenship, except the right to vote
  5. Be granted citizenship and voting rights, decided by popular sovereignty
  6. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 did all of the following except
  7. Divide the South into military districts
  8. Require Southern states to pass the 14th Amendment
  9. Require Southern states to respect African American voting rights
  10. Provide African American families with “40 acres and a mule”
  1. Presidential Reconstruction tended to be more lenient than Congressional Reconstruction for all of the following reasons except
  2. Lincoln and Johnson wanted to reunite the country as quickly as possible
  3. Johnson was a Southern sympathizer
  4. Presidents feared a Congress dominated by the North would create laws alienating the Southern population
  5. Lincoln and Johnson wanted to prove their position of superiority after defeating the Confederacy in the Civil War
  1. The following are true of the Wade-Davis Bill except
  2. Confederate states needed a majority to take an oath of allegiance in order to be readmitted into the Union
  3. The bill was a response to the 10% plan
  4. The bill demanded that 5 military districts be set up
  5. Lincoln pocket vetoed the bill
  1. All of the following served as limitations on freed slaves ability to rise on the social ladder except
  2. The Freedman’s Bureau
  3. Indebtedness through sharecropping
  4. Black Codes
  5. KKK
  1. The Enforcement Act is best characterized as
  2. A federal law that allowed troops to be sent to Confederate states newly admitted to the Union
  3. A law passed to ensure that attempts at ensuring civil rights through Reconstruction legislation would not be thwarted by the KKK and black codes
  4. A law enacted in many Southern states to ensure that freed slaves did not receive civil rights
  5. A law allowing former Confederate officials to more easily reenter politics in the South
  1. All of the following undermined Reconstruction except
  2. The Slaughterhouse Cases
  3. Black Codes
  4. Reconstruction Act of 1867
  5. Compromise of 1876
  1. “Redemption” in the context of Reconstruction refers to
  2. The new chance that freed slaves had at making a life for themselves
  3. The acceptance of Blacks into Southern governments
  4. The attempt of former Confederate states to pass laws to counter Reconstruction
  5. The attempt to fill state legislatures with Republican candidates
  1. All of the following undermined Grant’s presidency except
  2. Credit Mobilier
  3. The formation of the Liberal Republicans led by Horace Greeley
  4. The Freedman’s Bureau
  5. The Whiskey Ring
  1. The following is true of the 14th amendment except
  2. Provided a Constitutional basis for the Reconstruction Act
  3. Mandated that former Confederate states would lose representation in Congress if they did not accept the amendment
  4. Allowed former Confederate leaders back in office with acceptance of the amendment
  5. Provided that Blacks were given equal citizenship with Whites
  1. Carpetbaggers would best be described as
  2. Southerners who hired free slaves to turn a profit
  3. Lower class individuals who moved North after realizing the destruction caused by the Civil War in the South
  4. Northerners who came South to rebuild and start new businesses in the South
  5. Southerners who were not committed to giving freed slaves voting right