Reconstruction Unit Test

What was reconstruction?

Who succeeded Lincoln as President?

• Grant
• Hayes
• Johnson

What was a sharecropper (tenant farmer)?

• White Southerners who joined the Republican Party
• A person who paid rent and gave a share of crops often getting caught in a cycle of debt
• African Americans who stayed in the south
• Neighborhood community gardens

What officially ends "Reconstruction" in the South?

• The Compromise of 1877
• The Election of Ulysses S. Grant
• Bleeding Kansas
• General Lee's Surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse

Which amendment made former slaves citizens in the U.S. and provided equality under the law?

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

Which Civil War Amendment gave former slaves full voting rights?

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

Which Civil War Amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

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

These laws sought to keep black people powerless and in a similar position to what they were during slavery

• Black Codes
• Amendments
• Ratifications

These divided the South into five military districts and outlined how the new governments would be designed

• The 16th Amendment
• Presidential Pardons
• The Military Reconstruction Acts
• Black Codes

Georgia: “All persons wandering or strolling about in idleness, who are able to work, and who have no property to support them shall be deemed and considered vagrants, and it shall be lawful for any person to arrest said vagrants, and upon conviction they shall be fined or imprisoned, or sentenced to work on the public works or roads for no longer than a year, or be bound out to some person for a time not longer than one year.”

This law is an example of

• An amendment
• A Black Code
• A pardon
• Sharecropping