Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the fourteenth amendment?

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What was Lincoln’s primary goal immediately following the Civil War?

  1. punishing the rebel states
  2. improving the lives of formerly enslaved people
  3. reunifying the country
  4. paying off the debts of the war

2.

In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were most concerned with ________.

  1. securing civil rights for formerly enslaved people
  2. barring ex-Confederates from political office
  3. seeking restitution from Confederate states
  4. preventing Andrew Johnson’s ascent to the presidency

3.

What was the purpose of the Thirteenth Amendment? How was it different from the Emancipation Proclamation?

4.

Which of the following was not one of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

  1. collecting taxes
  2. reuniting families
  3. establishing schools
  4. helping workers secure labor contracts

5.

Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?

  1. President Johnson
  2. northern voters
  3. southern voters
  4. Radical Republicans in Congress

6.

What was the goal of the Black codes?

7.

Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the following did former Confederate states not need to do in order to rejoin the Union?

  1. pass the Fourteenth Amendment
  2. pass the Fifteenth Amendment
  3. revise their state constitution
  4. allow all freed men over the age of 21 to vote

8.

The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over ________.

  1. the Civil Rights Act
  2. the Fourteenth Amendment
  3. the Military Reconstruction Act
  4. the Tenure of Office Act

9.

What were the benefits and drawbacks of the Fifteenth Amendment?

10.

Which of the following is not one of the methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate Black people and White sympathizers?

  1. burning public schools
  2. petitioning Congress
  3. murdering freedmen who tried to vote
  4. threatening, beating, and killing those who disagreed with them

11.

Which of the following was the term southerners used for a White southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?

  1. scalawag
  2. carpetbagger
  3. redeemer
  4. white knight

12.

Why was it difficult for southern free Black people to gain economic independence after the Civil War?

Amendment XIV

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2.

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

Section 3.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4.

The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5.

The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.