Question

13) President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War included:

a. Restoring the social conditions that existed before the war began

b. Conducting trials for former Confederate leaders

c. Destroying the economic and social power of the Southern planters

d. Reuniting the nation as quickly as possible



14) Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws were enacted in Southern states as a means to:

a. Provide an education for formerly enslaved persons

b. Protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved persons

c. Enforce racial segregation

d. Ensure equal protection under the law



15) In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that:

a. States may not secede from the Union

b. Racial segregation was constitutional

c. Slaves are property and may not be taken from their owners

d. All western territories should be open to slavery



16) After the Civil War, one way business leaders tried to eliminate competition was by:

a. Increasing the prices of their products

b. Forming monopolies or trusts

c. Developing overseas markets

d. Paying high wages to their workers

Answer 1

13)
d. Reuniting the nation as quickly as possible
He clearly explained this in this the "Gettysburg address"

14)
c. Enforce racial segregation

15)
b. Racial segregation was constitutional
Reasons:
In the court case, they found that it was not unconstitutional because it was deemed "equal"~

16)
b. Forming monopolies or trusts
Companies would make monopolies such as railroad, kerosene, and steel.
Example:
Standard oil ran by John D. Rockefeller