Reconstruction Era Quiz 2

The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called:

• Industrialization

• Reconstruction

• The Gilded Age

• Emancipation

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

The 14th Amendment was important because it:

• Allowed women to vote

• Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law

• Ended segregation in schools

• Gave land to formerly enslaved people

The 15th Amendment guaranteed:

• Freedom of speech

• The right of African American men to vote

• Citizenship to immigrants

• Protection from unreasonable searches

The Freedmen’s Bureau was created to:

• Punish Confederate leaders

• Provide food, education, and assistance to freed people and poor whites

• Write the Civil Rights Amendments

• Promote industrialization in the South

Which system often trapped African Americans in a cycle of debt and poverty?

• Slavery

• Life guarding

• Sharecropping

• Industrial work

Laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War to restrict African Americans’ rights were called:

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Laws

• Segregation Acts

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established:

• Equal pay for equal work

• The principle of “separate but equal”

• Voting rights for women

• The end of slavery

What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?

• To abolish slavery

• To enforce racial segregation

• To grant land to freedmen

• To expand voting rights

Which president took office after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Johnson

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Theodore Roosevelt