Reconstruction Goals and Impact Quiz

What was the main goal of Reconstruction after the Civil War?

• To punish the Southern states

• To reunite the nation and rebuild the South

• To expand the United States westward

• To abolish all state governments

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

• To enforce Black Codes

• To help former slaves and poor whites in the South

• To create new state governments

• To impeach President Johnson

What were Black Codes?

• Laws that protected African American rights

• Laws that restricted the rights of African Americans

• Amendments to the Constitution

• Military orders

Who were the Radical Republicans?

• Southern Democrats who supported slavery

• Northern politicians who wanted strict Reconstruction policies

• Former Confederate soldiers

• Members of the Freedmen’s Bureau

What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?

• The right to vote for all men

• Citizenship and equal protection under the law

• The end of sharecropping

• The right to own land

What was the Military Reconstruction Act?

• A law that ended Reconstruction

• A law that divided the South into military districts

• An act that created the Freedmen’s Bureau

• An act that allowed Black Codes

What does it mean that President Johnson was impeached?

• He was removed from office

• He was put on trial by Congress

• He resigned from the presidency

• He was elected for a second term

What was sharecropping?

• A system where landowners paid workers a salary

• A system where freedmen rented land and paid with crops

• A law that protected voting rights

• A type of military government

Who were the new voters in the South during Reconstruction?

• Only white men

• African American men and some poor whites

• Only women

• Only former Confederates