Concordia University US History Questions

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1 What was Lincoln’s primary goal immediately following the Civil War?

punishing the rebel states

improving the lives of former slaves

reunifying the country

paying off the debts of the war

2. In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were most concerned with ________.

securing civil rights for freed slaves

barring ex-Confederates from political office

seeking restitution from Confederate states

preventing Andrew Johnson’s ascent to the presidency

3.What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment? How was it different from the Emancipation Proclamation?

4.Which of the following was not one of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

collecting taxes

reuniting families

establishing schools

helping workers secure labor contracts

5.Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?

President Johnson

northern voters

southern voters

Radical Republicans in Congress

6.What was the goal of the black codes?

7.Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the following did former Confederate states not need to do in order to rejoin the Union?

pass the Fourteenth Amendment

pass the Fifteenth Amendment

revise their state constitution

allow all freed men over the age of 21 to vote

8.The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over ________.

the Civil Rights Act

the Fourteenth Amendment

the Military Reconstruction Act

the Tenure of Office Act

9.What were the benefits and drawbacks of the Fifteenth Amendment?

10.Which of the following is not one of the methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate blacks and white sympathizers?

burning public schools

petitioning Congress

murdering freedmen who tried to vote

threatening, beating, and killing those who disagreed with them

11.Which of the following was the term southerners used for a white southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?

scalawag

carpetbagger

redeemer

white knight

12.Why was it difficult for southern free blacks to gain economic independence after the Civil War?

13.How do you think would history have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated? How might his leadership after the war have differed from that of Andrew Johnson?

14.Was the Thirteenth Amendment a success or a failure? Discuss the reasons for your answer.

15.Consider the differences between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. What does the Fourteenth Amendment do that the Thirteenth does not?

16.Consider social, political, and economic equality. In what ways did Radical Reconstruction address and secure these forms of equality? Where did it fall short?

17.Consider the problem of terrorism during Radical Reconstruction. If you had been an adviser to President Grant, how would you propose to deal with the problem?