Reconstruction Quiz

These were laws passed by former Confederate states that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.

• Slave Codes
• Black Codes
• African Codes
• Strict Codes

The first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives

• Andrew Johnson
• Donald Trump
• Gerald Ford
• Bill Clinton

Republicans that took a harsh stance towards the South and wanted to make it more difficult for them to rejoin the Union.

• Radical Republicans
• Moderate Republicans
• Roosevelt Republicans
• Robust Republicans

This amendment gave citizenship to people born or naturalized in the US, except for Native Americans

• 14th amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 16th amendment
• 15th amendment

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

• 13th amendment
• 14th amendment
• 15th amendment
• 21st amendment

Lincoln wanted to readmit the southern states as quickly and painlessly as possible.

• True
• False

This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the US.

• 16th amendment
• 14th amendment
• 13th amendment
• 15th amendment

An agency whose main responsibility was to provide relief for freed people and certain poor people.

• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen's Bureau
• NAACP
• Slavery Society

President Lincoln lived long enough to see the Confederate states readmitted to the Union.

• True
• False

This southerner was a supporter of the Confederacy, and was the man who assassinated Lincoln.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• John Wilkes Booth
• Ulysses S. Grant