Under the Wade-Davis bill, 90% of southerners had to take an “iron clad oath” of loyalty to the Union before their states could be reconstructed.  President Lincoln supported this bill.

What was the main message of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1863)?

The South’s commitment to the production of cotton had virtually no effect on the ability of the Confederacy to feed itself.

Who led the March to the Sea through Georgia in the Fall of 1864?

The Fourteenth Amendment developed concurrently with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to ensure its constitutionality.  Section One of the Amendment granted citizenship and repealed the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott (1857) decision. Moreover, it ensured that state laws could not deny due process or discriminate against particular groups of people.

African Americans served at every level of government during Reconstruction.  For example, almost 800 African American men served as state legislators around the South, with African Americans at one time making up a majority in the South Carolina House of Representatives.

The Emancipation Proclamation applied to all slave states.

In the years immediately following emancipation, newly freed slaves were most interested in all of the following EXCEPT

A former Senator from Mississippi, he became the president of the Confederacy.

He urged the southern states to oppose ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.