7.01 Reconstruction Begins

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Reconstruction Practice

Answer the following questions.

1. The Wade-Davis bill required
   1. 30% of the male population to take loyalty oaths.
   2. the state to grant suffrage to black men.
   3. to allow Confederate officers to hold offices in the new government.
   4. both “a” and “b”

   Answer: b. the state to grant suffrage to black men.

2. The unofficial end of the Civil War was
   1. the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House
   2. the taking of Mobile Bay by Admiral Farragut.
   3. the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
   4. the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

   Answer: a. the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House

3. President Lincoln issued his first reconstruction plan
   1. after Lee surrendered to Grant.
   2. long before the war was over, on Dec. 8, 1863.
   3. when New Orleans was captured on May 1, 1862
   4. immediately after his 1860 election.

   Answer: b. long before the war was over, on Dec. 8, 1863.

4. How did Lincoln’s vice-president and successor feel about Reconstruction?
   1. He wanted tougher requirements to be put in place.
   2. He supported the Congressional view of Reconstruction.
   3. He didn’t believe the South was worth Reconstruction.
   4. He generally agreed with Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction.

   Answer: d. He generally agreed with Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, though he did want to be tougher on the southern aristocracy.

5. Congress came up with its own reconstruction plan, the First Reconstruction Act or
   1. the Military Reconstruction Act
   2. Presidential Reconstruction Act
   3. the Wade-Davis Act
   4. the Southern Reconstruction Act

   Answer: a. the Military Reconstruction Act

6. President Lincoln’s reconstruction plan
   1. would grant pardon to most Confederates who would swear an oath to support the Union.
   2. would grant presidential recognition to the state once 10% of the voters had sworn the oath and abolished slavery.
   3. would grant recognition to any state that immediately abolished slavery.
   4. both “a” and “b”

   Answer: d. both “a” and “b”

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