Reconstruction Quiz

What is a scalawag?

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction

  government

• 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

What is a carpetbagger?

• A Northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction

  government

• A white southerner who supported Reconstruction

• A formerly enslaved person

• A secret organization of white men formed after the Civil War

  that used violence and terror against African Americans

Which of the following is the BEST description for 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.

What is the Ku Klux 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

The 13th Amendment...

• Ended slavery and made it illegal.

• Overturned the Dred Scott decision and allowed African-Americans to be citizens. Gave equal protection under the law at all levels of government.

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

• Ended the Civil War.

The 14th Amendment...

• Ended slavery and made it illegal.

• Overturned the Dred Scott decision and allowed African-Americans to be citizens. Gave equal protection under the law at all levels of government.

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

• Ended the Civil War.

What is the 15th Amendment?

• Ended slavery and made it illegal.

• Overturned the Dred Scott decision and allowed African-Americans to be citizens. Gave equal protection under the law at all levels of government.

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

• Ended the Civil War.

Laws prohibiting African Americans from eating in the same restaurants as whites was an example of which kind of laws?

• Juneteenth Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedom Codes

• Scalawag Codes

What U.S. President was impeached by the House of

Representative because he tried to block Congressional

Reconstruction?

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

Lincoln's deliberately lenient Reconstruction plan to entice the South to surrender

• Ninety Percent Plan

• Ten Percent Plan

• Reconstruction Plan

• Amnesty Plan