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