Reconstruction Era Quiz

What was the main goal of Abraham Lincoln during the Reconstruction?

• To dissolve the Confederate states

• To grant full citizenship to former slaves immediately

• To reunify the states as quickly as possible

• To punish the Southern states

What did the Freedmen's Bureau provide to needy Southerners?

• Weapons for self-defense

• Food, clothing, and medicine

• Free land for farming

• Passports for travel abroad

What were Black Codes designed to do?

• Provide jobs for African Americans

• Promote racial equality

• Encourage freedmen to vote

• Severely limit the rights of freedmen

What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?

• Women's suffrage

• Free education for all children

• The right to bear arms

• All the rights of American citizenship to freedmen

Who took over Reconstruction, riding a wave of Northern anger?

• The Democratic Party

• The Radical Republicans

• The Confederate leaders

• The Union Army

What terrorist group formed in the South during Reconstruction?

• The Carpet Baggers

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Radical Republicans

What was the main outcome of the Compromise of 1877?

• African Americans were granted the right to vote

• The 14th Amendment was repealed

• Rutherford B. Hayes became president and troops were removed from the South

• Slavery was reinstated

What system did many freedmen end up working under, which was similar to economic slavery?

• Artisan apprenticeships

• Factory work

• Sharecropping

• Military service

What laws were passed to prevent African Americans from voting?

• Jim Crow laws

• Civil Rights Acts

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Labor laws

What was the main effect of segregation laws established in the South?

• Equal public facilities for all races

• Improved economic conditions for African Americans

• Forced division of races and unequal public facilities

• Increased political power for African Americans