Reconstruction Era Quiz

What was the purpose of the Military Reconstruction Act?

• To grant citizenship to African Americans

• To put the South under military rule and divide it into military districts

• To abolish slavery in the United States

• To give African American men the right to vote

What did the Freedmen's Bureau aim to provide for 4 million freedmen or former slaves?

• Intimidation and violence against black leaders

• Sharecropping opportunities

• Schools, food, and healthcare

• Black Codes

What was the main reason for the failures of Reconstruction in 1877?

• The North and South were successfully rebuilt after the Civil War

• African Americans were granted citizenship

• Southern whites enacted Black Codes and other measures to prevent black voters from participating

• Slavery was abolished in the United States

What was the 14th Amendment designed to do?

• Abolish slavery in the United States

• Give African American men the right to vote

• Put the South under military rule

• Grant African Americans citizenship

What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

• It gave African American men the right to vote

• It granted African Americans citizenship

• It abolished slavery within the United States

• It put the South under military rule

What was the primary effect of Black Codes in the South?

• They provided food and healthcare to freedmen

• They limited the new freedoms of African Americans

• They gave African American men the right to vote

• They rebuilt the North and South after the Civil War

What was the 15th Amendment about?

• Abolishing slavery in the United States

• Rebuilding the North and South after the Civil War

• Granting African Americans citizenship

• Giving African American men the right to vote

What was the main issue with sharecropping for newly freedmen?

• It allowed them to vote

• It provided them with military protection

• It often trapped them in a cycle of debt

• It abolished the Black Codes

Reconstruction was ...

• the rebuilding of the North and South after the Civil War

• the expansion of the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• the war between Texas and Mexico

• None of the above

The name of a secret organization that used violence and intimidation against African Americans. 

• Defenders of the Alamo

• Ku Klux Klan
• The Patriots

• The Union