Reconstruction + Quiz

From which document in the quotation above is this an excerpt?

• The Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13^th Amendment

• 15^th Amendment

The South should be punished for the Civil War.

The South should be placed under military occupation.

Freed Slaves should be given full and equal rights in the South.

• Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction

• Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction

• Radical Republican’s plan for Reconstruction

• Confederate plan for Reconstruction

The excerpt above most likely came from _______________.

• the Dred Scott court ruling

• the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling

• the Brown v. Board of Education ruling

• the Civil Rights Act of 1892

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War

• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War

• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech

• citizenship and equal protection

• the right to vote

• the right to a speedy and fair trial

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

The 13th Amendment ...

• banned slavery

• grants voting rights

• grants citizenship and equal protection

• restores Confederate rights

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights

• expand Confederate rights

• give women voting rights

• jail Carpetbaggers

Frederick Douglass believed...

• that the south would rise again

• in jobs for all

• that there should be public education

• in civil liberties and voting rights for all

Who could hold public office in the south during Reconstruction?

• African Americans

• Confederate Leaders

• Southern Women

• American Indians