APUSH reading quiz 12/5/24
Which best describes the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
To provide food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support to emancipated slaves and white refugees
Upon emancipation, former slaves did all of the following except:
Divorce spouses married in slavery
In the years following emancipation, what became the focus of the black community?
The church
Who created the "10 percent" Reconstruction plan?
President Abraham Lincoln
The Wade-Davis Bill reflected divisions over Reconstruction between which of the following?
Congress and the president
All of the following were true of the Black Codes except:
They were favored in the North and hated in the South.
What did the Fourteenth Amendment provide for?
Full citizenship and civil rights for former slaves
In contrast to radical Republicans, moderate Republicans generally favored which of the following?
States' rights and opposed direct federal involvement in individuals' lives
What group carried through a Southern strategy for dealing with Reconstruction?
Redeemers
What did the radical Republican law that laid the basis for Andrew Johnson's impeachment declare?
The president could not remove a member of the Cabinet without consent of the Senate.
Why did the skeptical public finally accept Seward's purchase of Alaska?
Russia had been the only great power friendly to the Union during the Civil War.
How might Reconstruction have been more successful?
If Thaddeus Stevens's radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted