Reconstruction quiz

During Reconstruction the South was under Military rule

• True
• False

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Freed the slaves
• Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

The 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans the right to own businesses
• Freed the Slaves
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Forced African Americans back into slavery

Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South
• Rebuild the South
• Develop the system of sharecropping
• Determine what to do with African Americans

Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?

• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• John Wilkes Booth
• Henry Clay
• John Breckinridge

What group in Congress felt that Lincoln's plan was too lenient?

• Deciduous Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Wistful Whigs
• Fancy Federalists

What problem did many farmers have under the sharecropping system?        

• They were forced to grow cash crops instead of food.
•  They often were trapped in a cycle or circle of debt.
•  Many sharecroppers were forced to buy goods on credit. 
•    All choices are true.

Northerners who went south after the Civil War to make large profits from the destruction in the south were called

• Scalawags
• Ku Klux Klan
• Carpetbaggers
• Sharecroppers

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Freedman's Bureau
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws