Reconstruction Era Quiz

What term refers to the laws that limited the freedom of African Americans after the Civil War?

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Black codes

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau during the Reconstruction Era?

• To provide assistance to former enslaved people

• To amend the Constitution

What did the Thirteenth Amendment accomplish?

• It granted civil rights to African Americans

• It abolished slavery in the United States

What does the term "Reconstruction" refer to in the context of American history?

• The process of resolving political disputes

• The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War

What are "civil rights"?

• The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

• The organization that helped former enslaved people

What were the laws passed in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans called?

• Black Codes

• Civil Rights Acts

What is the period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union known as?

• The Reconstruction Era

• The Gilded Age

What is the name of the change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, that abolished slavery in the United States?

• The Fifteenth Amendment

• The Thirteenth Amendment

What is the name of the agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help and protect newly freed black Americans?

• The NAACP

• The Freedmen's Bureau

What are the rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all people, especially equal treatment under the law, known as?

• Civil Rights

• Human Rights