Reconstruction Quiz

What was the significance of the 13th Amendment in the context of Reconstruction?

• It officially abolished slavery

• It granted citizenship to all individuals born or naturalized in the United States

• It established the Freedmen’s Bureau

• It granted voting rights to African American men

What Reconstruction-era amendment prohibited states from banning people from voting due to their race?

• the Civil Rights Act of 1866

• the Fifteenth Amendment

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• the Nineteenth Amendment

Created to limit the rights and freedoms of newly freedmen?

• They were denied citizenship because it was believed they had started the war.

• Sharecropping

• They were denied the ability to obtain political positions.

• Black Codes

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau most assist in the reconstruction of the South?

• By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

• By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

• By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

• By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

These reforms were instituted by -

• governors during the colonial era

• Reconstruction governments after the Civil War

• Patriots during the American Revolution

• Revivalists after the Second Great Awakening

Which piece of legislation passed by the Radical Reconstruction Congress gave citizenship to all persons born in the U.S?

• the Civil Rights Act of 1866

• the Reconstruction Act of 1867

• the Habeas Corpus Act of 1867

• the Fourteenth Amendment

What was the objective of Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?

• It focused on readmitting Southern states and restoring the Union.

• It focused on protecting freedmen and freedwomen living in the South.

• It focused on punishing Southern states for leading the nation into a war.

• It focused on arresting and prosecuting Confederate soldiers in the South.

How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments and the Freedmen’s Bureau change individual rights in the U.S.?

• They abolished slavery and granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.

• They established new voting requirements for all male citizens.

• They reduced the powers of the federal government over individual rights.

• They provided land and property to all former slaves.