Reconstruction Quiz

Who was the leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress and worked towards equality for African Americans?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Thaddeus Stevens

What was the name of the secret organization that used terrorist tactics to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War?

• Carpetbagger

• Scalawag

• Klu Klux Klan

• Jim Crow Laws

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• Lincoln’s 10% Plan

• 15th Amendment

What was the agency set up by the federal government to help former slaves after the Civil War?

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• The Freedmen’s Bureau

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

What was the compromise that gave Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for the withdrawal of all Federal troops from the Southern states?

• Lincoln’s 10% Plan

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Compromise of 1877

• Jim Crow Laws

What was the discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil-War South which severely restricted African Americans' lives?

• 15th Amendment

• Black Codes

• Lincoln’s 10% Plan

• 13th Amendment

Who was the President of the United States at the beginning of Reconstruction and wished to make the South's return to the Union as quick and easy as possible?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Thaddeus Stevens

What was the system in which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise?

• Tenant Farming

• Impeach

• Suffrage

• Sharecropping

What was the system in which farm workers supply their own tools and rent farmland for cash?

• Tenant Farming

• Impeach

• Suffrage

• Sharecropping

What was the political party very popular in the Southern states who wanted a weak federal government with an emphasis on states‟ rights?

• Democrat

• Moderate Republican

• Klu Klux Klan

• Radical Republican