6. Crisis and Civil War

Reconstruction Policies — Quiz

Test your understanding of reconstruction policies with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

Under President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan, what action was required for a former Confederate state to form a recognized government?

Question 2

Which group was explicitly excluded from the general amnesty proclaimed by President Johnson in 1865?

Question 3

Under the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, what key requirement did Southern states’ new constitutions have to include for readmission to the Union?

Question 4

How did President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction policy treat lands confiscated from Confederates and distributed to freedpeople?

Question 5

What was the primary purpose of the Enforcement Acts passed by Congress in 1870–1871?