United States History Quiz

What significant event in United States history is being referred to by the poster above?

• The ending of the civil war

• The passage of the 14th amendment

• The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Abraham Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction was called the ....

• 10% Plan

• The Damage Plan

• Civil War Fix Plan

• The Wade Davis Bill

The Freedmen's Bureau was established to provide aid to ....

• former slave owners

• people adjusting to freedom

• carpetbaggers

• Washington D.C. Congressmen

Which newspaper headline would have appeared during the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War?

• Jim Crow Laws End

• Former Slaves Made Citizens

• Supreme Court Issues Dred Scott Decision

• Emancipation Proclamation Issued

The Constitutional Amendments adopted during Reconstruction dealt with the....

• method of choosing a United States Senator

• expansion of the rights of African Americans

• prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages

• extension of voting rights to women.

Which change occurred in southern agriculture in the years following the Civil War?

• many formerly enslaved persons became sharecroppers

• subsistence farming became illegal

• cotton production ended

• most small farms were joined into large plantations

During the Reconstruction Era, one reason for the formation of the KKK was to...

• prevent formerly enslaved peoples from exercising their rights

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

• support the South during the Civil War

• eliminate sharecropping in the Southern States

The separate but equal principle established by the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) led to...

• start of the Civil War

• end of the Reconstruction Period

• the spread of racially segregated facilities

• integration of military regiments

During Reconstruction, the Black Codes passed by Southern states were attempts to...

• provide land to former slaves

• punish former Confederate leaders

• repeal the Jim Crow laws

• deny equal rights to African Americans

What effect did the system of sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?

• It kept formerly enslaved persons economically dependent.

• It brought investment capital to the South.

• It encouraged Northerners to migrate south.

• It provided for a fairer distribution of farm profits.