Reconstruction Quiz

The amendment that gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

The amendment that granted African-American men the right to vote. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Laws passed directly after the civil war that restricted former slaves' freedom. 

• black codes
• jim crow laws
• reconstruction laws
• 14th amendment

The process of getting the country back to one piece after the Civil War. 

• Reconstruction
• Reloading
• Remodeling
• Refinishing

The amendment that freed all slaves. 

• 12th
• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Terrorist organization created to intimidate & prevent freedmen & Republicans from gaining political power in the South

• Bourbon Triumvirate
• Ku Klux Klan
• ISIS
• Mary Phagan's Knights

What did Republicans gain from the Compromise of 1877?

• Radical Republicans retained control of Congress.
• Federal aid to the South was controlled by Republicans.
• Republicans received powerful Cabinet positions.
• Rutherford B. Hayes became President.

The Ten Percent Plan required that? 

• ten percent of a state’s voters take a loyalty oath to the Union.
• state legislatures set aside ten percent of their seats for African Americans.
• southern landowners give ten percent of their land to freed men.
• the South pay ten percent of the Union’s war costs.

Who wanted to punish the South during Reconstruction?

• Democrats
• Radical Republicans
• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers

Who was the escaped slave who became a Civil War hero and later a Congressman from South Carolina?

• Blanche K. Bruce

• Hiram Revels

• Robert Smalls

• Harriet Tubman