Reconstruction to Civil Rights Act Quiz

More Americans died in the Civil War than any other war that America has been involved in.

• True

• False

Abraham Lincoln lived for many years after the Civil War.

• True

• False

The US President that took over after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and who basically reversed the progress of Reconstruction plans was:

• Harry S. Truman

• Anthony Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

Under the terms of the 13th Amendment, a person can only be held against their will or forced to work without compensation unless:

• They are Black

• They committed a crime

• They were already a slave

• They deserve it

The main purpose of the 14th Amendment was to:

• Abolish Slavery

• Free Speech

• Define citizenship in America

• The right to bear arms

The governmental agency that positioned themselves in the South during Reconstruction to enforce the civil rights of newly freed slaves was:

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Juneteenth Bureau

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation

• The Office of Civil Rights Enforcement

The system of farming post-slavery where many Blacks worked on farms in exchange for room, board, and perhaps monetary and/or a share of crops was known as:

• Farmsharing

• Plantations

• Sharecropping/tenant farming

• The Farm Lease Program

When the Freedmen's Bank failed, the following happened:

• Blacks were paid back all of the money that was lost in the failure

• Many Blacks lost the money that they had in the bank

• Black were paid back in government bonds

• Any money that a person had in the bank was transferred to another bank

A large part of Reconstruction was building schools specifically made for Black students.

• True

• False

After Reconstruction, there were no Black people in Congress between the Reconstruction period and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

• True

• False