To reinstate slavery in parts of the United States

 

To fix damage done to buildings during the war

 

To rebuild the southern economy and society

 

To rebuild the depleted military

 

He believed the South should not be welcomed back into the Union

 

He believed the Southern states should have to recognize equal rights for African Americans before being welcomed back into the Union

 

He insisted that a majority of Southern citizens take an oath of loyalty before the South could be welcomed back into the Union

 

He believed that there would be no benefit to punishing southern states.

 

It required former Confederate states to include a ban on slavery in their state constitutions.

 

It required a majority of voters in each Confederate state to swear their allegiance to the US before rejoining the Union

 

It prohibited Confederate officials and military leaders from voting or holding office

 

All of the above

 

To help African Americans, particularly those who had been enslaved, adjust to life with increased rights and responsibilities

 

To free slaves from Southern plantations

 

To ensure that white voters supported anti-slavery laws and policies

 

To assist Confederate prisoners in returning home safely.

 

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John Wilkes Booth

 

James Earl Jones

 

James Earl Ray

 

Similar to Abraham Lincoln’s

 

That they should be granted equal rights to whites, including voting rights

 

That they should be granted equal rights to whites, but not voting rights

 

That they should not be granted equal rights to whites

 

It gave all men, regardless of race, the ability to vote in the United States.

 

It abolished slavery in the United States.

 

It gave women the right to vote in the United States.

 

It formally brought the Southern states back into the Union.

 

To provide African Americans access to government services

 

To desegregate Southern society and institutions

 

To restrict the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force

 

To repeal the slave codes that were in place before the war

 

It declared that all people born in the United States are entitled to be citizens without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery.

 

It prohibited state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of slavery.

 

It was signed into law by President Andrew Johnson.

 

All of the above.

 

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

 

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States...

 

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States...

 

In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

 

The states could enter the Union if they promised they would ratify the Fourteenth Amendment within five years.

 

The states were put under the control of military commanders until they ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and rebuilt their state governments.

 

The states were allowed to ignore the Fourteenth Amendment.

 

African American males would not have the right to vote until the Fourteenth Amendment was passed.

 

Johnson, a Democrat, had little control over Reconstruction policy due to the Republican control of Congress.

 

Johnson wrote much of the Reconstruction legislation himself.

 

Johnson pushed for laws limiting the Executive Branch’s power to help ensure the policies included in the Radical Reconstruction plan would endure after he left office.

 

Johnson deliberately removed himself from the decisions involving Reconstruction.

 

all citizens

 

all male citizens

 

all white, male citizens

 

all citizens excluding former slaves

 

Northern Democrats who moved into former Confederate-controlled states with the intention of upsetting Radical Reconstruction plans.

 

Tradesmen hoping to take advantage of the vast number of construction contracts being offered to rebuild the war-torn South.

 

Northern Republicans who moved down South, often with intentions of helping rebuild Southern society.

 

Southern Democrats who packed their bags and fled to the West and North to escape the progressive aims of Radical Reconstruction.

 

African Americans began to be elected to federal, state, and local governmental posts.

 

Despite the passage of progressive new laws, racist attitudes prevented open access to employment, education, voting, and protection against violence.

 

Sharecropping practices kept many African Americans in working conditions that weren’t a significant improvement over slavery.

 

all of the above

 

Communities would combine their farms’ yields to ensure everyone had enough food.

 

Workers would be given a modest home, supplies, and a small portion of land to farm for personal use in exchange for also farming the landowner’s land.

 

Farmers would collude to drive up prices of certain crops.

 

The government would pay farmers to grow specific crops that were particularly in demand.

 

Republicans regained a substantial number of voters who had previously been denied voting rights due to unproven war crimes.

 

Democrats who were previously unable to vote due to their Confederate ties were now able to vote and run for office.

 

A large number of immigrants and African Americans were given voting rights.

 

The Democratic Party was disbanded and replaced with a new, more liberal version of the Republican Party.

 

The federal government pledged larger amounts of financial assistance to the Southern states.

 

Federal troops were removed from the Southern states and the Democratic majority was entrusted to protect and enforce the rights of African Americans.

 

A large number of Republican lawmakers regained seats in Southern state governments, but chose to abandon Reconstruction reforms.

 

none of the above

 

Poll taxes prevented poor citizens from being able to vote.

 

Grandfather clauses gave citizens the right to vote if their grandfathers had been able to vote in elections prior to Reconstruction.

 

Literacy tests were put into place requiring citizens to read difficult passages from legal documents in order to be able to vote.

 

all of the above

 

Segregation was ruled unconstitutional and all “Jim Crow” laws had to be immediately repealed.

 

Segregation laws were legal in former Confederate states only.

 

Segregation was legal, as long as the notion of “separate but equal” was being followed.

 

Segregation laws would “sunset” and have to be repealed within the next 20 years.