Reconstruction

Who killed Abraham Lincoln?

• Lewis Powell

• Lee Harvey Oswald

• Al Capone

• John Wilkes Booth

Who became President after Lincoln was killed?

• William Seward

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• George McClellan

The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is a time period known as what?

• Reconstruction

• Reunification

• Revolution

• Retooling

To formally charge a public official with misconduct in office is called what?

• indict

• appeal

• impeach

• prosecute

Which amendment defines U.S. citizens as all people born or naturalized in the U.S.

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment states that the right to vote can not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Laws that severely limited the rights of freemen were called what?

• black codes

• Radical Reconstruction

• amnesty

• scalawags

Which was not a way that southern states restricted voting rights for African Americans?

• literacy tests

• poll taxes

• grandfather clauses

• eye exams

Who became the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate in 1870?

• Frederick Douglas

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Hiram Revels

• Harriet Tubman

Segregation was declared legal as long as the facilities for whites and blacks were equal in their ruling in the case of _____________________.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Plessy v. Ferguson