Presidential and Radical Reconstruction

Question 1

Vagrancy laws in the 1860s applied to

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people who moved from place to place without regular homes or work.

Question 2

President Johnson announced that the Union was restored in

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December 1865.

Question 3

Southern states resisted the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by

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establishing poll taxes and literacy tests.

Question 4

Which statement best describes the Fourteenth Amendment?

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It prevented states from denying citizens equal protection under the law.

Question 5

Under President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction, how could states be readmitted to the Union?

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State conventions had to establish new governments.

Question 6

What was one reason Congress gave for wanting to remove President Johnson from office?

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Johnson was abusing his presidential powers.

Question 7

Which law established martial law in the South after the Civil War?

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the Reconstruction Act of 1867

Question 8

Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to provide more rights for formerly enslaved people, so they

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overturned several of President Johnson’s vetoes.

Question 9

As a result of the tension between President Johnson and the Radical Republicans,

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Congress voted to impeach President Johnson.

Question 10

Which statement best describes President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction?

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Johnson’s plan was more lenient on the South than Lincoln’s plan.

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