USII3 Quiz

The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to...

• citizenship.
• vote.
• own land.
• hold political office.

Jim Crow laws were upheld by which Supreme Court case in 1896?

• RHS vs. BGHS
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Clymore vs. Kiser
• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Reconstruction ended in ____ with a compromise over the election of 1876.

• 1865
• 1900
• 1861
• 1877

Black Codes were intended to...

• help African Americans gain land.
• limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves.
• to remove Federal troops from their region.
• to give African Americans a code to communicate.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866, giving African Americans equal rights, was enforced by...

• Northern soldiers
• Confederate soldiers
• General Kiser
• General Clymore

Which was a policy of Reconstruction?

• Freedmen's Bureau was declared unconstitutional
• Southern military leaders could not hold public office
• all Civil Rights Laws were repealed
• Southern military leaders were encouraged to hold public office

How would the Southerners feel about Northern carpetbaggers?

• resented them

• welcomed them

The 13th Amendment ended...

• Black Codes.
• discrimination.
• Jim Crow laws.
• slavery.

Frederick Douglass was best known as what?

• Confederate General
• 16th President
• Former slave who worked constantly for rights for African Americans
• Union General

What does reconstruction mean?

• tear down

• rebuild

• destroy

• take away