reconstruction quiz

13th amendment

• banned slavery

• gave citizenship

• protected voting rights

• protected northerns rights

14th amendment ?

• Banned slavery

• gave citizenship

• protected voting rights

15th amendment ?

• Banned slavery

• gave citizenship

• protected voting rights

The radical republicans

• Were Northern congressmen who wanted political equality for all

• Were Southern congressmen who wanted political equality for all

• Were Northern congressmen who did not want political equality for all

• Were Southern congressmen who did not want political equality for all

The Freedmens bureau

• Provided basic necessities to freedmen

• Oppressed and harassed freedmen throughout the south

Which one is an example of the black codes

• literacy test to vote

• requiring citizenship to vote

• having to prove who you are to vote

• allowing former slaves to vote in the South

What is a scalawag ?

• Southerners who sided with the North

• Northerners who sided with the South

• Republicans

• democrats

What is a carpetbagger ?

• Northerners who went South to take advantage of the political and economic situation

• Southerners who went North to take advantage of the political and economic situation

• Radical republicans

• Radical democrats

How was sharecropping a form of continued slavery ?

• It trapped former slaves in a cycle of debt

• They were not paid to work

• They were paid to work

• Former slaves were required to work all year

Who was Hiram Revels

• First African American in congress

• First African American in the senate

• First African American president

• First African American to win the medal of honor