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Civil War & Reconstruction Test(75 Points)True/False (10 points)Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 without Southern support. ___________The Emancipation Proclamation decreed freedom for enslaved persons in all states where they were held. ___________W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington both felt that the government needed to establish more vocational schools to improve the lives of freedmen. ___________President Andrew Johnson was impeached and removed from office. ___________The Thirteenth Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. ___________Multiple Choice (20 points)Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States andpromise never to secede from the Union again.accept the Union’s proclamations concerning slavery.agree to set up schools to educate formerly enslaved people.promise to pay a share of the costs of property damage done to the North.The Amendment to the Constitution that banned slavery was thetenththirteenthfourteenthtwelfthUnder the Wade-Davis plan, before former Confederate states could elect people to Congress, they had toratify the Fourteenth Amendment.redesign their constitutions to deny voting rights to African Americans.redesign their constitutions to deny voting rights to former Confederate leaders.appoint African Americans to at least a fourth of their state government jobs.Scalawags werewealthy planters who were looking for a way to regain power.white Southerners who supported Reconstruction.Northerners who took positions in the South’s new state governments.African Americans who had won office in Southern state governments. Reconstruction ended whenHayes was elected.Hayes made plans for the “New South.”Hayes pulled troops out of the South.industrialization began in the South.Enforcement Acts 1) Made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen’s right to vote.2) Put federal elections under the supervision of federal marshals.3) Outlawed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.According to the information in the chart above, the overall objective of passing the Enforcement Acts was tostop the Ku Klux Klan.punish former Confederates officers.ensure voting rights for all citizens.enforce fair taxes in the South.The Fourteenth Amendment limits the state government's ability to . . .raise the federal income tax.use military forces in peacetime.regulate interstate trade and commerce.place restrictions of qualified votes.Which of the following civil rights activists of the Reconstruction period documented lynching’s?Booker T. WashingtonW.E.B. DuBoisIda B. WellsThaddeus StevensWhich of the following was NOT a group that created the new state constitutions after the Civil War?FreedmenConfederate leadersScalawagscarpetbaggersWhich of the following was NOT an issue that ended Reconstruction? The Force/Enforcement ActsElection of 1876Northerner’s grew tired of fightingGovernment corruptionCompletion (20 points)Complete each statement. Use the terms in the word bank to complete the statements below.recognitioncarpetbaggersamnestyFugitive Slave ActEmancipation Proclamation freedmenCompromise of 1850sharecroppersscalawagspocket vetoFifteenthKu Klux KlanFourteenthseparate but equal CongressThe ________________________________________, written by Henry Clay, prevented the secession of North Carolina, but included ___________________________________ which allowed African Americans to be forced into slavery.Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction offered a general ____________________________, or pardon, to Southerners who abided by certain conditions.Lincoln blocked the Wade-Davis Bill with a __________________________________________, allowing the session of Congress to expire without signing the legislation.After emancipation, formerly enslaved African Americans became known as ________________ ___________________________.Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War were known as _____________ __________________________.Most tenant farmers became ____________________________________, who paid a share of their crops to cover rent and other costs.The _______________________________ used terrorism to ensure white supremacy. The _______________________________ Amendment granted African Americans the right to vote. The Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson established the ______________________ __________________________doctrine.Matching (10 points)Match each statement with the correct item below.a.Military Reconstruction Actf.Civil Rights Act of 1866b.Enforcement Actsg.Fourteenth Amendmentc.black codesh.Wade-Davis Billd.Fifteenth Amendmenti.Booker T. Washingtone.Tenure of Office Actj.Rutherford B. Hayes25.______vetoed by Lincoln because he felt that imposing a harsh peace on the South would be counterproductive26.______allowed African Americans to own property and to be treated equally in court27.______intended to keep African Americans in a condition similar to slavery28.______divided the former Confederacy into five military districts29.______declared that no state could deny any person “equal protection of the laws”30.______required the Senate to approve the president’s removal of any government official whose appointment had required the Senate’s consent31.______intended to combat the activities of the Ku Klux Klan32.______declared that the right to vote “shall not be denied . . . on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”33.______won the election of 1876.34._____civil rights voice during Reconstruction who believed that African Americans need job training because they were very important to the nation’s economy.40. Essay: Answer the question using COMPLETE SENTENCES. Include an introduction, content and a clear conclusion. Be sure that your answer includes a response for each bullet listed below. SELECT ONLY ONE OPTION TO ANSWER. (7 points)Option OneHow did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments advance civil rights? In what ways did the Southern states try to deny these rights? (give an example for each of the amendments)Option TwoHow were the Reconstruction plans of President Lincoln and President Johnson alike and different? Support your answer with specific examples. ................
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