Reconstruction Review Quiz

What right does the 15th Amendment ensure U.S. citizens regardless of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude?

• the right to free speech

• freedom of the press

• the right to vote

• trial by jury

Which amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees equal protection under the law?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

Which two groups of people did not receive the full benefits of citizenship under the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?

• African Americans

• Indians

• Women

• Carpetbaggers

What is this picture an example of?

• carpetbagger

• Jim Crow

• Freedmen

• Confederate

Why was the Freedmen's Bureau established?

• to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South

• to help establish free and slave states in new territories

• to gather taxes tp be used for rebuilding the Southern economy

What did Abraham Lincoln believe in?

• African Americans should remain enslaved

• Southern states should have fewer rights than Northern states

• Preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south

Why did Southerners adopt Black Codes?

• to help former enslaved African Americans gain farm land

• to ensure the removal of federal troops from their region

• to limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves

Which amendment abolishes slavery?

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

One Reconstruction policy allowed African Americans to

• hold public office

• remain slaves

• become carpetbaggers

At the end of Reconstruction, federal troops

• were removed from the south

• lived and worked only in the north

• supervised the south