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Chapter 16: Reconstruction and the South

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
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	On the complex question of returning the defeated Confederate states to the Union,   Radical Republicans believed that secession was illegal and that former Confederate states needed no formal readmission to the Union. President Lincoln believed secession was illegal, but that southern states still needed to be formally readmitted to the Union. northerners felt the South had committed treason and should lose Congressional representation southerners believed that they had legally seceded and would have to be formally readmitted back into the Union. Charles Sumner believed that the Confederate states had ceased to exist as states and must be treated as conquered territory.

	President Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan for Reconstruction did NOT require southern states to   guarantee African Americans the right to vote. have its citizens pledge their loyalty to the U.S. adopt a republican form of government. accept the fact of slavery's abolition. provide schooling for former slaves.

	Congress' Wade-Davis bill required southern states to   repudiate the Confederate debt. guarantee universal adult male suffrage. guarantee African-American equality. try and convict former Confederate officers gradually abolish slavery.

	Andrew Johnson was made President Lincoln's running mate in 1864 primarily for the political benefits that would result from his   being a Democrat from a border slave state. having been a southern slave owner. being a Radical Republican leader. patient and compromising manner. having been a southerner who opposed the North.

	President Johnson's Reconstruction proposal would NOT have   made the Three-fifths Compromise meaningless. allowed former Confederates to hold public office. required full civil and political equality for African Americans. increased the number of southerners in Congress. allowed southern states to use special legal codes to control former slaves.

	The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed   U.S. citizenship to former slaves. freedom to slaves. land ownership for former slaves. slaves forty acres of land and a mule. former slaves the right to vote.

	The Fourteenth Amendment did NOT   offer a broad definition of American citizenship. threaten to reduce apportionment if black men were not allowed to vote. require former Confederate states to pay their war debts. guarantee former slaves due process of law. prohibit former Confederate officials from voting.

	The Fourteenth Amendment   ordered states to establish "separate but equal" educational institutions for freedmen. significantly altered the power relationship between the federal government and the state governments. established legal Black Codes to protect freedmen's rights. specifically outlawed racial segregation. specifically prevented any state from denying African Americans the right to vote.

	The South was divided into five military districts under the provisions of the   Civil Rights Act. Confiscation Act. Reconstruction Acts. Fifteenth Amendment. Tenure of Office Act.

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