Reconstruction Test Review

1. What was Reconstruction?

• The moment after the Revolutionary War when Colonists wanted to build a Nation
• The moment after World War II when American soldiers came back home to their families
• The moment after the Civil War when the North and the South came back together and the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were established.

2. Who's plan was Reconstruction?

3. What did the 13th Amendment do?

• grant African American men the right to vote
• grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States regardless of race
• grant freedom to enslaved people and make slavery illegal in the United States unless a punishment for a crime

4. What did the 14th Amendment do?

• grant African American men the right to vote
• grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States regardless of race
• grant freedom to enslaved people and make slavery illegal in the United States unless a punishment for a crime

5. What did the 15th Amendment do?

• grant African American men the right to vote
• grant citizenship to anyone born in the United States regardless of race
• grant freedom to enslaved people and make slavery illegal in the United States unless a punishment for a crime

6. Select EVERY option below that was a POSITIVE of Reconstruction

• Freedman's Bureau
• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
• African Americans like Hiram Revels hold office for the first time
• Black Codes
• Sharecropping

7. Select EVERY option below that was a NEGATIVE of Reconstruction

• Black Codes
• Sharecropping
• Resentment and hatred by White Southerners
• Freedman's Bureau
• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

8. What is Juneteenth?

• A holiday celebrating everyone born in June
• Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of African-American slaves.
• A holiday celebrating the beginning of summer

9. Who was the civil rights leader who was born into enslavement and eventually became a freedman and fought to pass the 15th amendment?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Frederick Douglass

10. True or False? The Emancipation Proclamation ENDED slavery EVERYWHERE in the United States

• TRUE
• FALSE