Question

#5
Arrange the following legislation that was passed after the Civil War in the proper chronological order.
(1 point)
= Reconstruction Act
= Wade-Davis Bill
= Fifteenth Amendment
= Compromise of 1877
#6
Why was President Lincoln unable to persuade Congress to accept his Reconstruction plan?
(1 point)
• 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 1

#5
To arrange the legislation passed after the Civil War in chronological order:
1. Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
2. Reconstruction Act (1867)
3. Fifteenth Amendment (1870)
4. Compromise of 1877

#6
The correct answer is:
• President Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to persuade Congress.