11. In the 1860s, Black Codes were

A. holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.

B. passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.

C. enacted by the Freedmen’s Bureau to give freed blacks voting rights.

D. vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.

E. designed to give whites control over freedmen.

12. The Fourteenth Amendment

A. ended slavery throughout the United States.

B. gave voting rights to all male Americans.

C. gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.

D. was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

E. was written in such a way as to appease the woman’s suffrage movement.

13. In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction

A. were rejected by every former Confederate state.

B. replaced federal military commanders in the South with civilian leaders.

C. granted forty acres of land to every adult male former slave.

D. required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.

E. required that state legislatures ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

14. The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

A. slavery.

B. citizenship.

C. cruel and unusual punishment.

D. income tax.

E. suffrage.

15.The Tenure of Office Act

A. gave the Senate the power to appoint members of the president’s cabinet.

B. was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson’s authority.

C. was roundly condemned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

D. was both designed to limit President Andrew Johnson’s authority and roundly condemned by Secretary of War EdwinM. Stanton.

E. None of these answers is correct.

16. As a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling in , some Radical Republicans

A. reduced the number of justices on the Court.

B. established military tribunals in additional Southern states.

C. proposed abolishing the Court.

D. tempered many of their Reconstruction plans.

E. ended military tribunals in favor of civil courts.

17. In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

A. violated the Tenure of Office Act.

B. offered political opposition to Radical Republicans.

C. dismissed Edwin Stanton from office.

D. both violated the Tenure of Office Act and dismissed Edwin Stanton from office.

E. All these answers are correct.

18. At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial,

A. a majority of senators voted to acquit.

B. Johnson resigned from office just prior to the vote.

C. every Senate Republican voted to convict.

D. Johnson was convicted and then pardoned by the Senate.

E. Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.

19. During Reconstruction, the term “scalawags” referred to

A. Southern white Republicans.

B. free black Southerners.

C. Southerners who moved north.

D. white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy.

E. Northerners who moved south.

20. During Reconstruction, most “carpetbaggers” were

A. white Southerners who moved to the North.

B. freedmen who moved out of the South.

C. former confederates who moved to the West.

D. Northern white veterans who moved to the South.

E. Northern politicians who took offices in Southern states.