Reconstruction Era Quiz

What was the main goal of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?

• To quickly reintegrate the Southern states into the Union

• To redistribute land from former slave owners to freed slaves

Which amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To enforce the Black Codes

• To provide assistance to former slaves and poor whites in the South

What were Black Codes?

• Codes used by abolitionists to help slaves escape

• Laws that restricted the rights and movements of newly freed African Americans

Which President succeeded Abraham Lincoln and introduced his own plan for Reconstruction?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• James Buchanan

Which Reconstruction plan proposed a more lenient approach towards the Southern states?

• Lincoln's Reconstruction plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction plan

What did the Jim Crow laws enforce?

• Equality in education for all races

• Racial segregation in the Southern United States

How did sharecropping work?

• Landowners provided land and tools to sharecroppers in exchange for a portion of the crops

• Freedmen owned the land and hired workers to farm it

What was a major consequence of sharecropping and tenant farming for African Americans in the South?

• It led to a cycle of debt and economic dependency on landowners

• It allowed them to quickly accumulate wealth and buy their own land

Which amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves?

• 14th Amendment

• 16th Amendment