#1 What can be inferred by the passage of the black codes?
(1 point) Responses
A.Many southerners were willing to allow African Americans equality.
B.Many white Southerners wanted African American to remain as servants.
C.Many white Southerners wanted African Americans to receive an equal education.
D.Southern lawmakers wanted “separate but equal” rights.
Question 2 Which three of the following groups supported Radical Reconstruction? Choose the three that apply.
(9 points) Responses
A. business people interested in rebuilding
B.Newly freed African Americans
C. rich, white landowners
D.scalawags
Question 3 After the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, why did African Americans continue to experience political oppression?
(1 point) Responses
A.The amendments were not intended to exclusively solve African American problems.
B.Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.
D.Many African Americans did not trust that the amendments would be upheld.
C.Poor communication kept African Americans from learning about their rights.
Question 4 Which of the following is a major example of Abraham Lincoln’s policy of leniency toward the defeated South?
(1 point) Responses
A.President Lincoln’s willingness to have the federal government assume responsibility of the Confederate government’s war debts
B. President Lincoln’s choice to have a Southerner as his vice president in the 1864 election
C. President Lincoln’s decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10
percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union President Lincoln’s decision to extend the
D. Emancipation Proclamation to include all states President
Question 5 Arrange the following legislation that was passed after the Civil War in the proprer chronological order. (1 point)
Reconstruction Act
Wade-Davis Bill
Fifteenth Amendment
Compromise of 1877
Question 6 Why was President Lincoln unable to persuade Congress to accept his Reconstruction plan?
(1 point) Responses
A. President Lincoln’s plan did not allow Northerners to vote on the Reconstruction Acts.
B. Congress believed that the Freedmen’s Bureau should be responsible for Reconstruction.
C. Congress believed President Lincoln’s plan was too difficult for the South.
D. President Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to persuade Congress.
Question 7 According to the ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, why was segregation acceptable?
(1 point) Responses
A. Segregation was legal because African Americans were not citizens.
B. Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
C. Segregation was acceptable in private facilities only.
D. Segregation was acceptable on a state by state basis.
Question 8 ESSAY QUESTION
The Reconstruction Amendments, or the Civil War Amendments, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870. The amendments were a part of the implementation of the Reconstruction of the American South which occurred after the Civil War.
Explain in detail what each of the Reconstruction Amendments said and established in 5 sentences. (4 points)
Question 1: B. Many white Southerners wanted African Americans to remain as servants.
Question 2: B. Newly freed African Americans, C. rich, white landowners, D. scalawags
Question 3: B. Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.
Question 4: C. President Lincoln’s decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union
Question 5: Wade-Davis Bill, Reconstruction Act, Fifteenth Amendment, Compromise of 1877
Question 6: D. President Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to persuade Congress.
Question 7: B. Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.