The Fifteenth Amendment provided that
a. the Confederate states were to be placed under martial law.
b. representation in the House of Representatives would be reduced in proportion to the number of male citizens that were denied the right to vote.
c. slavery was illegal throughout the United States.
d. the freed slaves were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they resided.
e. no one could be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Question -2-Concern over the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 led to the
a. impeachment of President Johnson.
b. Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868.
c. passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
d. establishment of the Ku Klux Klan.
e.
Dred Scott decision.
Question -3-The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868 strengthened federal control over the South by
a. establishing employment offices to guarantee jobs for newly freed blacks over the age of 21.
b. forcing state legislatures to repeal the Black Codes by withholding federal funds.
c. instituting martial law throughout the country for a period of five years.
d. placing ten former Confederate states under military control.
e. regulating the internal commerce of southern states.
Question -4-Intended to counteract the Black Codes, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 also had the effect of
a. alienating northern Republicans.
b. cementing the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
c. overturning the
Dred Scott decision.
d. repairing relations between the North and South.
e. repealing the Missouri Compromise.
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