STAAR Review Reconstruction

What was the time period after the Civil War ended in which the South needed to be rebuilt and the nation emotionally healed?

1865-1877

• Reconstruction

• Rebuilding

• Early Republic

During the Reconstruction Era, who controlled Congress? They felt it was their duty to punish the South for the Civil War.

• RADICAL REPUBLICANS

• MODERATE REPUBLICANS

The U.S. Constitution was amended after the Civil War to expand rights for _______________.

• African Americans

• Native Americans

• Mexican Americans

This amendment to the US Constitution made slavery ILLEGAL.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

EQUAL PROTECTION AMENDMENT: This amendment also declared that all persons born in the United States (except American Indians) were citizens, that all citizens were entitled to equal rights and due process

regardless of their race.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

The former Confederate states were hesitant to accept the 14th and 15th Amendments. This law passed said that seceded states would have to ratify the 14th and 15th in order to rejoin the United States.

• Military Reconstruction Act

• Former Secession Act

Since African American men could vote in the South after the Civil War (1866-1877) and many former Confederate whites could not, Mississippi saw the first African-American US Senator elected to Congress. What was his name?

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Douglas Wilder

• Edward Brooke

Civil rights law that guaranteed African Americans the right to make contracts, own property, and sue in court.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Civil Rights Act of 1956

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Military Reconstruction Act of 1867:

• All of these are correct.

• Southern states would be ruled by the US military.

• Blacks were protected and guaranteed full rights as citizens.

• Former Confederate officers were barred from voting or holding public office.