Reconstruction Vocabulary Quiz DOK Level 1

What was the main goal of the Reconstruction Period?

• To rebuild the South after the Civil War

• To expand the United States territory

• To establish new trade routes

• To develop new technologies

Which plan required 10% of the southern population to take loyalty oaths to the Union?

• Johnson's Plan

• Lincoln's Plan

• Congressional Plan

• Military Reconstruction Act

What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

• Granted citizenship to African-Americans

• Abolished and ended slavery

• Granted the right to vote to African-American males

• Established the Freedmen's Bureau

Which amendment granted citizenship to African-Americans?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• To restrict black people's rights

• To provide assistance such as education and legal aid to freed people and poor whites

• To divide the South into military districts

• To establish new trade routes

What did the 15th Amendment grant?

• The right to own property

• The right to vote to African-American males

• The right to free education

• The right to hold public office

What was the main feature of the Military Reconstruction Act?

• It abolished slavery

• It divided the South into 5 military districts

• It granted citizenship to African-Americans

• It established the Freedmen's Bureau

What was a sharecropper?

• A worker who owned the land they farmed

• A worker who provided the landowner with a share of the crop

• A worker who had their own equipment

• A worker who was paid a salary

What did the Black Codes restrict?

• The right to vote

• The right to own property and conduct business

• The right to free speech

• The right to education

What was the Convict Lease System?

• A system where prisoners were paid for their labor

• A system where companies paid for the labor of prisoners

• A system where prisoners were given land

• A system where prisoners were educated