Reconstruction Quiz

What does suffrage mean?

• Liberty

• Right to vote

• Freedom

• The pursuit of hapiness

What is conspiracy?

• A plan formulated in secret

• To accept someone

• To decline

• To have religious views

Amendment 13th establishes the abolition of...

What are black codes?

• a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

• a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.

• They restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.

The 15th Amendment guaranteed African American men the right to vote. Draw something in regards to this amendment...

Abraham Lincoln 10% Plan : happened when ten percent of its population took an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.

• False

• True

Republicans issued the Tenure of Office Act that required the president to get ________approval for the removal of cabinet members 

• Congress

• Courts

Who was the first black man to be elected Senator? 

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

Many Southern states passed laws that made it more difficult for African Americans to vote. Poll taxes and literacy test are only two examples of some of the difficulties African Americans had.

• True

• False

• Maybe

Why did Johnson violate the Tenure of Office Act?

• Because he dismissed the Secretary of War

• Because he was impeached

• Because he didn't ratify an amendment

• Because he was against slavery