Question

Arrange the following legislation that was passed after the Civil War in the proper chronological order:
Reconstruction Act
Wade-Davis Bill
Fifteenth Amendment
Compromise of 1877
(1 point)
Responses

I., II., III., IV.
I., II., III., IV.

I., II. IV., III.
I., II. IV., III.

II., I., III., IV.
II., I., III., IV.

III., IV., II., I.

Answer 1

Why was President Lincoln unable to persuade Congress to accept his Reconstruction plan?

President Lincoln’s plan did not allow Northerners to vote on the Reconstruction Acts.

Congress believed that the Freedmen’s Bureau should be responsible for Reconstruction.

Congress believed President Lincoln’s plan was too difficult for the South.

President Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to persuade Congress.

Answer 2

II., I., III., IV.