Reconstruction Test Review

The period of time after the Civil War in which there was rebuilding and healing in the US is known as....

• Retrust
• Reunionization
• Reconstruction
• Rebuilding

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Which amendment gave African Americans citizenship and said that no state could deny the equal protection of the law to all citizens?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

Which amendment gave all men the right to vote?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th

This practice was where freedmen would rent land from the landowner in exchange for a large portion of crop.

• sharefarming
• sharecropping
• sharelands
• shareplowing

Name of the laws passed in the south that limited the rights of African Americans.  Examples - poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.

• Joe Smith Laws
• Dred Scott Laws
• Jim Crow Laws
• Harriett Stowe Laws

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

• Coo Crop Clan
• Ku Klux Klan
• Krew Kland
• Crew Clan

What was the reason for the formation of the KKK?

• To prevent white Americans from exercising their rights
• To fight against Northern Union soldiers
• To prevent Southerners from moving to the North
• to prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights

What was the Freedman's Bureau?

• A govt agency that provided food, clothing, and medical care to newly freed African-Americans and poor white people in the South.

• A govt agency that provided food, clothing, and farms to newly freed African-Americans and poor white people in the South.

• A govt agency that provided food, clothing, and farms to newly freed African-Americans and poor white people in the North.

President Johnson created "black codes". These codes said that African-Americans...

• could vote and own land

• could become citizens

• could not vote, travel freely

• could not vote, travel freely, or own certain property