Reconstruction

Which of the following best defines the term Reconstruction?

• The amendment that outlawed slavery

• The time period (1865-1877) when former confederate states were reintegrated into the country.

• The amendment that guaranteed citizenship to newly freed enslaved people and gave them equal protection.

• Strict states laws passed after the Civil War.

 Which of the following created five military districts, required Congressional approval for new state constitutions, required Confederate states give voting rights to all men, and required former Confederate states must approve the 14th amendment?

• Reconstruction Acts of 1867

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• 15th Amendment

Which Amendment outlawd slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Which amendment provided citizenship to newly freed people, and guaranteed them equal protection and due process?

• 16th Amendemnt

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction, in which southern states were mostly allowed to control the reconstruction process, was called?

• Radical Republicans

• Presidential Reconstruction

• Reconstruction Acts of 1867

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

Which amendment guaranteed the right to vote to all male citizens, regardless of race or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

This political party, mostly in the north, advocated for harsh punishments for the south, an immediate end to slavery, and the allowing black suffrage (voting).

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• Confederates

• Carpetbaggers

This former clergyman became the first black senator in the history of the United States.

• Andrew Johnson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Hiram Revels

• Sharecropping

This man was the 17th U.S. president, assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), and was the first American president to be impeached.

• Hiram Revels

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Hillary Clinton

After the election of 1876, a bargain was stuck that allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president if the federal government would removed troops from the southern states, thus ending Reconstruction.

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1877