Reconstruction Vocabulary Quiz DOK Level 2

What was the main purpose of the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War?

• To expand the United States territory

• To rebuild the Southern states and integrate them back into the Union

• To establish new trade routes

• To create new states in the West

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

How did Johnson's Plan differ from Lincoln's Plan?

• It required 20% of the population to take loyalty oaths

• It allowed southerners to regain their land and be pardoned

• It abolished slavery

• It divided the South into military districts

What was a key feature of the Congressional Plan during Reconstruction?

• It abolished slavery

• It granted former male slaves the right to vote and hold public office

• It required states to pass the 13th Amendment

• It provided land to former slaves

What did the Military Reconstruction Act do to the Southern states?

• It abolished slavery

• It divided the South into 5 military districts

• It granted citizenship to African-Americans

• It provided education to freed people

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What did the 14th Amendment achieve?

• It abolished slavery

• It granted citizenship to African-Americans

• It granted the right to vote to African-American males

• It established the Freedmen's Bureau

Which amendment granted African-American males the right to vote?

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What was the role of a sharecropper during the Reconstruction era?

• They owned large plantations

• They worked on a farmer's property and provided a share of the crop to the landowner

• They were government officials

• They were military leaders

How did tenant farmers differ from sharecroppers?

• Tenant farmers owned the land they worked on

• Tenant farmers had their own equipment

• Tenant farmers were paid a salary

• Tenant farmers were government employees