Question

A)
What can be inferred by the passage of the black codes?
(1 point)
Many southerners were willing to allow African Americans equality.
Many white Southerners wanted African American to remain as servants.
Many white Southerners wanted African Americans to receive an equal education.
Southern lawmakers wanted “separate but equal” rights.

A)
Which of the following groups supported Radical Reconstruction? Select the three correct answers.
(1 point)
businesspeople interested in rebuilding
newly freed African Americans
rich, white landowners
scalawags

A)
After the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, why did African
Americans continue to experience political oppression?
(1 point)
The amendments were not intended to exclusively solve African American problems.
Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.
Many African Americans did not trust that the amendments would be upheld.
Poor communication kept African Americans from learning about their rights.

A)
Which of the following is a major example of Abraham Lincoln’s policy of leniency toward the
defeated South?
(1 point)
President Lincoln’s willingness to have the federal government assume responsibility of the Confederate
government’s war debts
President Lincoln’s choice to have a Southerner as his vice president in the 1864 election
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 Emancipation Proclamation to include all states

A)
Arrange the following legislation that was passed after the Civil War in the proper chronological order:
I. Reconstruction Act
II. Wade-Davis Bill
III. Fifteenth Amendment
IV. Compromise of 1877
(1 point)
I., II., III., IV.
I., II. IV., III.
II., I., III., IV.
III., IV., II., I.

A)
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.

A)
What did President Johnson believe Reconstruction should accomplish?
(1 point)
that rich, white southern landowners would not return to power
that the South would return to its prewar system without slavery
that the political and civil rights of freedmen would be guaranteed
that the South would remain as a conquered nation

A)
According to the ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, why was segregation acceptable?
(1 point)
Segregation was legal because African Americans were not citizens.
Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
Segregation was acceptable in private facilities only.
Segregation was acceptable on a state by state basis.

A)
Use the quotation to answer the following question:
“When Andrew Johnson took upon himself the duties of his high office he swore to obey the
Constitution and take care that the laws be faithfully executed. That, indeed, is and has always been
the chief duty of the President of the United States. The duties of legislation and adjudicating [making
a judgment on] the laws of his country fall in no way to his lot. To obey the commands of sovereign
power of the nation, and to see that others should obey them, was his whole duty—a duty which he
could not escape, and any attempt to do so would be in direct violation of his official oath…”
—Thaddeus Stevens, Closing Remarks in the Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson, 1868
According to the quotation, why does Stevens believe that Johnson should be removed from office?

Answer 1

A) What can be inferred by the passage of the black codes?
Answer: Many white Southerners wanted African Americans to remain as servants.

A) Which of the following groups supported Radical Reconstruction? (choose three)
Answers: businesspeople interested in rebuilding; newly freed African Americans; scalawags

A) After the passage of the 13th–15th Amendments, why did African Americans continue to experience political oppression?
Answer: Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.

A) Which of the following is a major example of Abraham Lincoln’s policy of leniency toward the defeated South?
Answer: President Lincoln’s decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union.

A) Arrange the following legislation in proper chronological order: II. Wade-Davis Bill, I. Reconstruction Act, III. Fifteenth Amendment, IV. Compromise of 1877.
Answer: II., I., III., IV.

A) Why was President Lincoln unable to persuade Congress to accept his Reconstruction plan?
Answer: President Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to persuade Congress.

A) What did President Johnson believe Reconstruction should accomplish?
Answer: that the South would return to its prewar system without slavery.

A) According to the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, why was segregation acceptable?
Answer: Segregation was legal as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.

A) According to Thaddeus Stevens’ quotation, why does Stevens believe that Johnson should be removed from office?
Answer: Because Johnson failed in his chief duty to obey the Constitution and faithfully execute the laws (overstepping into legislative/adjudicative roles and thus violating his presidential oath).