Reconstruction Quiz

Define RECONSTRUCTION.

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed

  by Southern governments after the Civil War

• Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.

Define JUNETEENTH.

• June 19; the date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas

• The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union

• Laws limiting the rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans

What is a FREEDMEN?

• A formerly enslaved person

• A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government

Who are the KU KUX KLAN?

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War that used violence and terror against African Americans

• A republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

What is the 13th Amendment?

• Ended slavery and made it illegal.

• Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all

  levels of government.

• Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.

What is the 15th Amendment?

• Ended slavery and made it illegal.

• Defined citizenship. Gave equal protection under the law at all

  levels of government.

• Granted all men (including former slaves) the right to vote.

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What laws prohibiting African Americans from eating in the same restaurants as white Texans during Reconstruction was an example of which kind of laws?

• Juneteenth Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedom Codes

• Scalawag Codes

Name the laws that denied African Americans’ civil rights, or the individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution were

known as:

• Black Codes

• Freedom Codes

• Confederate Codes

• Scalawag Codes

The forced separation of races is called-

• Segregation

• Separation

• Slavery

• Scalawag

renting farm land and paying for that land with a share of the crops. 

• sharecropping
• scalawaging
• carpetbagging
• reconstruction