Reconstruction Quiz

This stated that anyone born in the U.S. was a citizen and that all U.S. citizens were to be given equal protection under the law.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Bill of Rights

This abolished slavery in the U.S. and states had to ratify this before they could rejoin the Union.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Bill of Rights

This guaranteed the right to vote for all male citizens. You couldn't be denied to the right to vote based on race, color or previous servitude.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• Bill of Rights

These were passed to require southern states to follow and enforce federal laws. President Grant send federal troops south to enforce the laws.

• New State Constitutions

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Enforcement Acts

• Military Reconstruction Act

These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites in public places like schools, transportation, restaurants and restrooms.

• Poll Taxes

• Compromise of 1877

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

22 African Americans were elected to Congress during Reconstruction including Hiram Rhodes Revels.

• Freedman's Bureau

• African American Officeholders

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Black Codes

Laws that limited the liberties and freedoms of the former slaves.

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

• Military Reconstruction Act

• 15th Amendment

An economic system in which plantation owners rented small plots of land to freedmen and farmers paid for the land with cash or crops.

• Sharecropping

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Mercantilism

• Free Enterprise

This was established to help former slaves with food, medical care, jobs and education.

• Sharecropping

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedman's Bureau

This agreement ended Reconstruction with the election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the removal of federal troops from the South.

• Enforcement Acts

• Jim Crow Laws

• Compromise of 1877

• Military Reconstruction Act