Reconstruction Era Quiz

Who represented the North during the Reconstruction era?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Frederick Douglass

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who represented the South and urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners at the end of the war?

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Jefferson Davis

Who represented African Americans and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights?

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Harriet Tubman

Reconstruction was an effort by the Federal government to ________ the South after the Civil War.

• rebuild

• destroy

• abandon

• isolate

Reconstruction aimed to introduce laws and policies to protect newly freed ________.

• slaves

• immigrants

• soldiers

• farmers

The Emancipation Proclamation was what kind of directive that lacked full weight of the constitution?

• diplomatic

• presidential

• amended

• sustainable

What were African Americans now allowed to hold according to the Rules of Reconstruction?

• Public office

• Military positions

• Private property

• Voting rights

Who did the southerners resent because they took advantage of the south during Reconstruction buying land and resources at cheap prices?

• carpetbaggers

• Freedman's Bureau

• Robert E. Lee

• Ku Klux Klan

What was established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South?

• Freedman's Bureau

• Civil Rights Bureau

• Reconstruction Bureau

• Emancipation Bureau

What did Southern states adopt to limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves?

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Acts

• Reconstruction Acts