Reconstruction Vocabulary Quiz

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To help formerly enslaved African Americans and poor whites

• To accuse government officials of misconduct

• To migrate African Americans to Kansas

• To use prisoners as laborers.

What does Impeachment mean?

• Formally accusing a government official of misconduct

• Helping formerly enslaved African Americans

• Migrating to Kansas

• Using prisoners as laborers.

Which term refers to a system of forced labor involving prisoners?

• Convict Leasing

• Exodusters

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Impeachment

Which agency was created to assist formerly enslaved individuals after the Civil War?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Convict Leasing

• Exodusters

• Impeachment

What is the process of formally accusing a government official of wrongdoing called?

• Impeachment

• Convict Leasing

• Exodusters

• Freedmen

Which term is associated with African Americans escaping racist laws by moving to Kansas?

• Exodusters

• Freedmen

• Convict Leasing

• Impeachment

What does the term 'Freedmen' refer to?

• A) A person who has been freed from slavery

• B) A system of forced labor using prisoners

• C) A federal agency helping freed slaves

• D) The process of accusing a government official of misconduct.

Which term involves the use of prisoners as laborers?

• Convict Leasing

• Exodusters

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Impeachment

What is the definition of Impeachment?

• The process of formally accusing a government official of misconduct

• A system of forced labor using prisoners

• African Americans migrating to Kansas

• A person freed from slavery.

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

• Laws enforcing racial segregation in the United States from 1877 to the 1950s.

• Laws promoting racial equality in the United States.

• Laws related to the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

• Laws that ended slavery in the United States.