RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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too lenient
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very harsh
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well-balanced
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difficult to accomplish
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Radical Republicans in Congress were angered by Johnson’s actions. They refused to allow Southern representatives and senators to take their seats in Congress. In 1866, the Congress passed the Civil Rights Bill, which granted African Americans equal protection under the law with whites.
Detailed explanation-2: -Q. Which of the following phrases would a Republican congressman likely have used to describe President Johnson’s Reconstruction plans? “It almost seemed, sometimes, as if I had been away only a day or two and had just taken up the farm work where I had left off.”
Detailed explanation-3: -The Confederate states would be required to uphold the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; swear loyalty to the Union; and pay off their war debt. Then they could re-write their state constitutions, hold elections, and begin sending representatives to Washington.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan was thus lenient-an attempt to entice the South to surrender.