Reconstruction

What was the period after the Civil War called, during which the United States worked to reunite the nation and rebuild the South?

• The Gilded Age

• Reconstruction

• The Progressive Era

• The Great Depression

What term describes the process by which enslaved people were legally freed in the United States after the Civil War?

• Segregation

• Emancipation

• Suffrage

• Annexation

Which constitutional amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States?

• 12th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves?

• 10th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave African American men the right to vote?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

What name was given to the laws that enforced racial segregation and limited the rights of African Americans in the South after Reconstruction?

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow

• Civil Rights Act

• Homestead Act

Which Supreme Court case established the doctrine of "separate but equal," upholding racial segregation in public facilities?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

Which organization was created during Reconstruction to help formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, and legal assistance?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• NAACP

• American Red Cross

• Knights of Labor

What was the system called in which freed African Americans and poor whites farmed land owned by others and paid rent with a portion of their crops?

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecropping

• Homesteading

• Urbanization

Which secret organization used violence and intimidation to oppose Reconstruction and limit the rights of African Americans in the South?

• Freedmen's Bureau

• KKK

• Union League

• Populist Party