Reconstruction Quiz

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

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

The 13th Amendment ended...

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

The 14th Amendment gave African Americans...

• free land.
• citizenship and equal protection of laws.
• the right the vote.
• money.

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called for...

• punishing the South.
• reconciliation and not punishing the South.
• literacy tests be required for voting.
• Jim Crow laws to be passed.

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.

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• all Civil Rights Laws were repealed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

Which of these was set up to help aid former enslaved African Americans?

• Farm Bureau

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Census Office

• Social Security Office

Which of the following describes African Americans AFTER the Civil War?

• Carpetbaggers

• Enslaved

• Citizens

• Scalawags

Black Codes were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT _________.

• Prohibit African Americans from finding a job or buying a house.

• Limit the physical freedom of former enslaved African Americans.

• Limit the economic freedom of former enslaved African Americans.

• Aid former enslaved African Americans.

Slavery was abolished with the passage of the _______.

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment