Question 1
In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction
A. required that state legislatures ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
B. required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.
C. replaced federal military commanders in the South with civilian leaders.
D. granted forty acres of land to every adult male former slave.
E. were rejected by every former Confederate state.
Question 2
The Fourteenth Amendment
A. ended slavery throughout the United States.
B. was written in such a way as to appease the woman's suffrage movement.
C. gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.
D. was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
E. gave voting rights to all male Americans.
Question 3
In the 1860s, Black Codes were
A. enacted by the Freedmen's Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.
B. designed to give whites control over freedmen.
C. holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.
D. passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.
E. vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.
Question 4
The Wade-Davis Bill
A. denied reentry into the Union by former Confederate states for 10 years.
B. was criticized by Conservative Republicans for being too mild.
C. quickly became the law of the land.
D. sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates.
E. essentially followed President Lincoln's Reconstruction plans.
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