Class quiz/Reconstruction

Which is the best description of Reconstruction?

• rebuilding the US after a big earthquake
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Revolutionary War
• a period of rebuilding in the US after the Civil War
• unfair treatment of African Americans after the Civil War

The 14th Amendment granted...

• freedom of speech
• citizenship and equal protection
• the right to vote
• the right to a speedy and fair trial

Which of these amendments gives citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

The 13th Amendment ...

• banned slavery
• grants voting rights
• grants citizenship and equal protection
• restores Confederate rights

Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?

• limit African Americans rights
• expand Confederate rights
• give women voting rights
• jail Carpetbaggers

Which laws allowed Union Soldiers to supervise the south during Reconstruction?

• Jim Crow Laws
• the Voting Rights Act
• the Amnesty Act
• the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Military Reconstruction Act

The Ku Klux Klan was a group that believed...

• in white supremacy
• in equality for all
• in black supremacy
• in southern supremacy

Carpetbaggers were...

• Newly freed slaves
• Southern Republicans
• Confederate Soldiers
• Northerners who took advantage of southern economic hardships 

Abraham Lincoln believed...

• African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
• in the southern cause
• southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
• preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south

Who could hold public office in the south after the Civil War? 

• southern women
• Confederate Leaders
• American Indians
• African Americans