Reconstruction Test Review

What Amendment was passed to guarantee African American men the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 16th

• 15th

Which Amendment prohibits slavery?

• 15th

• 14th

• 13th

• 12th

Which Amendment states that anyone born in the United States is a citizen?

• 14th
• 15th
• 16th
• 13th

Strict punishment of Confederate veterans and financial assistance to African Americans were policies pushed by which of the following group during the Reconstruction Era?

• 
  Radical Democrats
• Moderate Republicans
• Radical Republicans
• Moderate Democrats

During Reconstruction, a group formed in the South to fight against the rising influence of African Americans. Members of this group often turned to violence and intimidation. What was the name of this controversial group?

• Sons of the Confederacy

• Neo-Nazis

• Ku Klux Klan

• Black Separatists

These were laws that made it illegal for African Americans to live or work in certain areas and allowed whites to arrest African Americans who were not working.  Once arrested they would be forcibly assigned to work for white landowners. 

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

Which of the following was NOT a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South

• Rebuild the Southern economy

• Develop the economic system of sharecropping for freedmen

• Determine how much help to give 4 million freed African Americans

After an electoral dispute resulting in the Compromise of 1877, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if

• he would create a new Freedmen's Bureau

• he ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the south

• he would allow African Americans full rights in the North only

• he created pro-cotton legislation in Congress

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 House of Representatives tried to get rid of President Andrew Johnson by doing what to him:

• impeaching him
• killing him
• bribing him to leave
• trying to get him out in the next election