- Legislative body able to impeach the President of the United States.
Your answer:
Freedmen's Bureau
Military Reconstruction Act
Senate
House of Representatives
- Reconstruction plan passed by Congress in 1864 but vetoed by President Lincoln.
Your answer:
Wade-Davis bill
Carpetbaggers
Military Reconstruction Act
Thirteenth Amendment
- Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery.
Your answer:
Fifteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Joint Committee of Fifteen
- Federal agency that was formed to help former slaves adjust to freedom.
Your answer:
Tweed Ring
Freedmen's Bureau
Joint Committee of Fifteen
Carpetbaggers
- Group of corrupt New York City politicians who cheated the city's taxpayers out of millions of dollars.
Your answer:
Carpetbaggers
Plaid Square
Scalawags
Tweed Ring
- Black postwar political leader from Mississippi who won the Senate seat that had been held before the war by Jefferson Davis.
Your answer:
Hiram R. Revels
Thaddeus Stevens
Bill Wade-Davis
Jesse Jackson
- Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
Your answer:
Carpetbaggers
Joint Committee of Fifteen
Tweed Ring
Freedmen's Bureau
- Congressional law that divided the former Confederate states into five military districts.
Your answer:
Joint Committee of Fifteen
Wade-Davis bill
the Pentagon
Military Reconstruction Act
- Constitutional Amendment that gave citizenship to blacks and guaranteed equal rights to all Americans.
Your answer:
Tenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
- Congressional group of Radical Republicans that played a leading part in Reconstruction.
Your answer:
Dubious Democrats
Tweed Ring
Joint Committee of Fifteen
Carpetbaggers
- All the former Confederate states except Tennessee moved to restrict the rights of freedmen by passing laws called ...
Your answer:
Freedom Riders.
Black Codes.
Reconstruction Acts.
Amendments.
- The Radical Republicans in Congress proposed their own Reconstruction plan largely because they ...
Your answer:
wanted to save on the cost of bricks and mortar.
felt that Congress should control Reconstruction.
did not want the Thirteenth Amendment ratified.
did not want to punish the former Confederate states.
- President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan called for ...
Your answer:
the former Confederate states to be punished.
a great wall to be built between the North and South.
readmission to the Union of any former Confederate state after 10 percent of the state's voters who had voted in 1860 had taken a loyalty oath.
the former Confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
- In 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward signed a treaty in which the United States agreed to buy ...
Your answer:
part of Canada.
part of Mexico.
Alaska.
warships from Great Britain.
- By the early 1870's, many farmers who wanted to air their views joined an organization known as the ...
Your answer:
Knights of Labor.
Clear Air Society.
Grange.
National Labor Union.
- The Military Reconstruction Act stated, in part, that a state could be readmitted to the Union after ...
Your answer:
all white residents of the state were given the right to vote.
It had reconstructed its military to exclude blacks.
all black residents of the state were given the right to vote and to hld public office.
a state militia was formed.
- The fifteenth Amendment was passed to ...
Your answer:
make sure that people had the right to bear arms.
abolish slavery.
protect the voting rights of blacks.
protect the civil rights of all Americans.
- In 1868, the Republican presidential candidate was former Civil War general ...
Your answer:
Andrew Johnson.
Ulysses S. Grant.
Jim Shortavenue.
James Longstreet.
- Ex-Confederates who joined the Republican party and who cooperated with the Reconstruction governments were called ...
Your answer:
Scalawags.
Carpetbaggers.
Radicals.
Loyalists
- By the mid-1860's, many railroad companies had become very powerful, largely as a result of ...
Your answer:
government interference.
speculation in the gold market.
bribery and corruption in the federal and the state governments.
the development of diesel engines.