Reading Assignment 13

Question 1

1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs

Answer 1

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 2

The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that mandates that no state may deny a person equal protection under the law.

Answer 2

Fourteenth Amendments

Question 3

1866 - enacted by radical congress - forbade president from removing civil officers without senatorial consent - was to prevent Johnson from removing a radical republican from his cabinet

Answer 3

Tenure of Office Act

Question 4

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.

Answer 4

Radical Republicans