Ch 16.1-2 PRACTICE QUIZ

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 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

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

Which government agency helped freed slaves after the Civil War?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Freedmen's Bureau

• US Army

• Confederacy

At what type of job were many freed slaves experienced?

• Factories

• Agricultural (Farms)

What term is used to describe when people are separated because of differences like race or religion?

• segregation

• convergent

• divergent

• destructive

What were free slaves called? (a)  

• Indentured servants
• Abolitionists
• Colonists
• freedmen