A New Revolution

Question 1

How did Congressional Reconstruction affect newly free African Americans in the South?

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They gained the right to vote as well as other rights and freedoms.

Question 2

Which of the following was a provision of the Fifteenth Amendment?

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Voting rights could not be denied based on race.

Question 3

Which of the following statements best describes the political participation of African Americans during Congressional Reconstruction?

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African Americans were elected to positions in state and national government.

Question 4

After the Civil War, Southern governments passed laws called Black Codes that

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restricted the rights of African Americans.

Question 5

Under Congressional Reconstruction, after Southern states were readmitted to the Union, they were controlled by

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the US military.

Question 6

Congress opposed President Johnson in several ways, including

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taking over the plans for Reconstruction.

Question 7

How did President Johnson handle the Freedmen’s Bureau?

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He did not support the agency and vetoed a law that would keep it going.

Question 8

During Reconstruction, the Congressmen who wanted to punish the South for starting the Civil War were

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Radical Republicans.

Question 9

During Reconstruction, white supremacists in the South targeted

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African Americans, carpetbaggers, and scalawags.

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