The Reconstruction Era Quiz

What was the Reconstruction Era?

• A time of planting trees

• A time of rebuilding after the Civil War

• A time of building new schools

• A time of making new laws

Who became president after Abraham Lincoln?

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Johnson

• George Washington

What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?

• Built new roads

• Helped African Americans with food and education

• Made new toys

• Painted houses

What was the 14th Amendment about?

• Building new schools

• Granting citizenship to former slaves

• Making new toys

• Planting trees

What was sharecropping?

• A new type of dance

• A system where people farmed land for a share of the crops

• A game played by children

• A way to build houses

Who was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate?

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Hiram Revels

• Frederick Douglass

• Barack Obama

What did the 15th Amendment do?

• Made new toys

• Built new schools

• Gave African American men the right to vote

• Gave women the right to vote

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

• A group that planted trees

• A group that made toys

• A group that helped build schools

• A group that used violence against African Americans

What was the Compromise of 1877?

• A deal to plant trees

• A deal to make new toys

• A deal that ended Reconstruction

• A deal to build new schools

What did the National Woman Suffrage Association want?

• To build new schools

• To give women the right to vote

• To make new toys

• To plant trees