reconstruction quiz

Which laws allowed Union Soldiers to supervise the south during Reconstruction?

• Jim Crow Laws
• the Voting Rights Act
• the Amnesty Act
• the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Military Reconstruction Act

Abraham Lincoln believed...

• African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
• in the southern cause
• southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
• preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south

The Presidential Election of 1876 resulted in...

• military supervision of the south
• the restoration of voting rights for white southerners
• the end of Reconstruction in the south
• equal rights for African Americans

Jim Crow Laws passed after Reconstruction took away African American Voting Rights using...

• Voter Registration Laws
• Political Gerrymandering
• Voter Identification Laws
• Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

Which of the following did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to African Americans and other war refugees?

• Education, help to find jobs, food and clothing.

• a pardon

• land

• Nothing

What is sharecropping?

• Something that helped the northern and southern economy.
• A system in which farmers rented land in return for crops.
• A process for getting rich.
• Rebuilding the south

The goals of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were to:

• Help newly freed slaves
• Help educate the freedmen
• Use peaceful protest to promote equality.
• Use violence and intimidation to maintain white power.

Who are carpetbaggers?

• Poor whites who cooperated with Radical Republicans and were viewed as traitors by Southern Elites.

• Northerners who moved South as missionaries or entrepreneurs.

• Newly freed African Americans

• I'm not sure

Who were scalawags?

• White Southerners who cooperated with Radical Republicans and were viewed as traitors by Southern Elites.

• Newly freed African Americans

• I'm not sure

• Northerners who moved South as missionaries or entrepreneurs.

Freed the enslaved people legally and permanently (mostly).

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964