Reconstruction and the Changing South Quiz

What was Reconstruction?

• The rebuilding of the North after the Civil War

• The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

• The process of reuniting the North and the South after the Civil War

• The process of rebuilding the economy of the United States after the Civil War

What was Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?

• A plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the US

• A plan that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy

• A government agency founded during the Reconstruction to help former slaves

• An amendment to the US Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation

What was the Wade-Davis Bill?

• A plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the US

• A plan that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy

• A government agency founded during the Reconstruction to help former slaves

• An amendment to the US Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

• A plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the US

• A plan that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy

• A government agency founded during the Reconstruction to help former slaves

• An amendment to the US Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation

What did the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution do?

• Banned slavery throughout the nation

• Guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• Forbade any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race

• Threw out the southern state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment

Who were the Radical Republicans?

• Members of Congress during the Reconstruction who wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote

• Members of Congress during the Reconstruction who wanted to deny the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy

• Members of Congress during the Reconstruction who wanted to rebuild the South's economy

• Members of Congress during the Reconstruction who wanted to reassert white supremacy in the South

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

• A plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10% of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the US

• A plan that denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy

• A government agency founded during the Reconstruction to help former slaves

• An amendment to the US Constitution that bans slavery throughout the nation

What was the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution?

• Banned slavery throughout the nation

• Guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• Forbade any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race

• Threw out the southern state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment

What were the Black Codes?

• Laws passed by southern states after the Civil War that denied African Americans the right to vote, hold office, and own property

• Laws passed by Congress during the Reconstruction that guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• Laws passed by Congress during the Reconstruction that forbade any state to deny African Americans the right to vote because of race

• Laws passed by southern states after the Civil War that threw out the southern state governments that had refused to ratify the 14th Amendment

Who were the Scalawags?

• Members of Congress during the Reconstruction who wanted to ensure that freedmen received the right to vote

• Members of Congress during the Reconstruction who wanted to deny the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had volunteered to fight for the Confederacy

• White southerners who supported the Republican Party during the Reconstruction

• Members of Congress during the Reconstruction who wanted to reassert white supremacy in the South