The Reconstruction Era Vocab Quiz

After Reconstruction, the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South limited the effectiveness of

• the 14th and 15th amendments

• sharecropping

• Black Codes

• tenant farming

After the Civil War, many Southern states enacted Black Codes to

• provide free farmland for African Americans

• ensure equal civil rights for African Americans

• restrict the rights of formerly enslaved people

• support the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau

Which of the following wanted to punish the Confederate states during Reconstruction?

• Radical Republicans

• Lincoln

• Johnson

• Jim Crow

Which of the following Amendments abolished slavery?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Formerly enslaved African Americans were provided with food, clothing, and education during Reconstruction by:

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow

• 15th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

Southerners who supported Reconstruction were known as:

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Losers

• Jim Crow

Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction were known as:

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Losers

• Jim Crows

Which of the following amendments granted African Americans the right to vote?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Which of the following amendments granted African Americans equal citizenship rights?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

After the Civil War, the sharecropping system emerged in the South mainly as a way to

• diversify agricultural production

• provide a labor supply to plantation owners

• give forty acres of land to freedmen

• ensure economic equality for African Americans