Reconstruction Quiz 1

Southern Democratic politicians who sought to wrest control from Republican regimes in the South after Reconstruction

• Redeemers

• Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson

• Carpetbaggers

The period that last from 1865 -1877 in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union

• Great Migration

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Black Codes

"Separate but equal" doctrine was usupreme court upheld the constitutionally of Jim Crow laws

• Brown Vs Board of Edcuation

• carpetbaggers

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• sharecropping

• 13th amendment

• 14th amendment

• Panic of 1837

A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

• scalawags fee

• segregation

• poll tax

• common law

What are the Black Codes?

• Laws passed after the civil war that were intended to limited African Americans' freedoms

• Set of rules that society implemented to help minorities

• Created by African Americans for their privileges only

Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Which of the following required freedmen to know certain sections of the Constitution in order to vote?

• literacy tests
• Jim Crow laws
• poll taxes
• grandfather clauses

 What agency was created by the United States Congress in 1865 to set up schools and churches, supply food and clothing, and solve employment issues for the former slaves?

• the American Missionary Association

• the Freedmen's Bureau

• the Ku Klux Klan

• the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - NAACP

What years did the civil war last?

• 1860-1870
• 1865-1880
• 1781-1785
• 1861-1865