Reconstruction Quiz

What was the Ten-Percent Plan?

• Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States

• A constitutional change that abolished slavery

• The President's idea of reconstruction

• Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves

What was the main idea of presidential reconstruction?

• All states had to end slavery

• States had to declare that their secession was illegal

• Men had to pledge their loyalty to the U.S.

• All of the above

Who were the Radical Republicans?

• A term for the Northerners who moved south during the Reconstruction

• Southerners who supported Republican policy of reconstruction

• Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after the Civil War

• Former Union general who was the Republican elected to the presidency in 1868

What did the Fourteenth Amendment declare?

• Abolished slavery

• Allowed a southern state to form a new government

• Granted citizenship to former slaves

• Declared that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens

What were the black codes?

• Laws enacted to promote equality for African Americans after the Civil War.

• Laws enacted to protect the rights of Native Americans after the Civil War.

• Laws enacted to regulate trade between the North and the South after the Civil War.

• Laws enacted to restrict the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To provide financial support to Southern plantation owners.

• To assist newly freed African Americans and white refugees in the South after the Civil War.

• To enforce strict segregation laws in the South.

• To promote the expansion of slavery in the United States.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment declare?

• The Fourteenth Amendment declared that states have the power to deny equal protection under the law to certain citizens.

• The Fourteenth Amendment declared that only citizens born in the United States are protected under the law.

• All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the country and no state can deny them equal protection under the law.

• The Fourteenth Amendment declared that only naturalized citizens are protected under the law.

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

• Established a system of indentured servitude

• Restricted the rights of formerly enslaved people

• Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

• Legalized slavery and involuntary servitude

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do?

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States, regardless of race or color.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866 only granted citizenship to white male persons in the United States.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866 only granted citizenship to African American male persons in the United States.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all female persons in the United States, regardless of race or color.