history questions 65
What was Lincoln’s primary goal immediately following the Civil War?
- punishing the rebel states
- improving the lives of former slaves
- reunifying the country
- paying off the debts of the war
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In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were most concerned with ________.
- securing civil rights for freed slaves
- barring ex-Confederates from political office
- seeking restitution from Confederate states
- preventing Andrew Johnson’s ascent to the presidency
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What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment? How was it different from the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Which of the following was not one of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
- collecting taxes
- reuniting families
- establishing schools
- helping workers secure labor contracts
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Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?
- President Johnson
- northern voters
- southern voters
- Radical Republicans in Congress
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What was the goal of the black codes?
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Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the following did former Confederate states not need to do in order to rejoin the Union?
- pass the Fourteenth Amendment
- pass the Fifteenth Amendment
- revise their state constitution
- allow all freed men over the age of 21 to vote
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The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over ________.
- the Civil Rights Act
- the Fourteenth Amendment
- the Military Reconstruction Act
- the Tenure of Office Act
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What were the benefits and drawbacks of the Fifteenth Amendment?
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Which of the following is not one of the methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate blacks and white sympathizers?
- burning public schools
- petitioning Congress
- murdering freedmen who tried to vote
- threatening, beating, and killing those who disagreed with them
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Which of the following was the term southerners used for a white southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?
- scalawag
- carpetbagger
- redeemer
- white knight
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Why was it difficult for southern free blacks to gain economic independence after the Civil War?
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How do you think would history have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated? How might his leadership after the war have differed from that of Andrew Johnson?
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Was the Thirteenth Amendment a success or a failure? Discuss the reasons for your answer.
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Consider the differences between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. What does the Fourteenth Amendment do that the Thirteenth does not?
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Consider social, political, and economic equality. In what ways did Radical Reconstruction address and secure these forms of equality? Where did it fall short?
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Consider the problem of terrorism during Radical Reconstruction. If you had been an adviser to President Grant, how would you propose to deal with the problem?
