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Reconstruction Quiz Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What time period did Reconstruction occur?

a)

1845-1857

b)

1861-1865

c)

1865-1877

d)

1870-1882

2.

What Amendment banned slavery from the United States?

a)

18th

b)

15th

c)

10th

d)

13th

3.

This amendment gave African American's the right to vote

a)

13th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

14th Amendment

4.

Formerly enslaved African Americans became known as....

a)

Democrats

b)

Abolitionists

c)

Freedmen

d)

Republicans

5.

Laws that were passed by the South that limited African American's rights were known as.....

a)

Radical Reconstruction

b)

Black Codes

c)

Emancipation Laws

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

6.

Why was it necessary to pass the 13th Amendment after Emancipation Proclamation was issued?

a)

Slaves were only free in Southern states

b)

Radical Republicans took control of Congress

c)

Grant thought it was time for a constitutional amendment

d)

The text of the Emancipation Proclamation was lost

7.

What Amendment gave African American citizenship rights?

a)

14th

b)

16th

c)

17th

d)

18th

8.

Separation of races in public places is known as

a)

Segregation

b)

Reconstruction

c)

the Black Codes

d)

Antebellum South

9.

Period after the Civil War to reunite the nation and rebuild the South without slavery.

a)

black codes

b)

segregation

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Freedman's Bureau

10.

Laws passed during Reconstruction that severely limited the freedom of African Americans

a)

Freedman's Bureau

b)

15th Amendment

c)

13th Amendment

d)

Black Codes

11.

A group that used intimidation and sometimes violence against blacks and sympathetic whites to "keep them in their place"

a)

The Confederate States

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Black Codes

d)

None of the Above

12.

Amendment which abolished slavery

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

13.

Gives U.S. citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S. and guarantees equal protection of the law (excluded American Indians)

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

14.

Outlawed denying voting rights to people based on race, religion or previous condition of servitude

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

15.

US President during the Civil War

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Ulysses S Grant

d)

Jefferson Davis

16.

Laws that enforced legal separation of Black people and White people

a)

Black Codes

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Civil War Amendments

17.

Did Black Codes help or hurt African Americans?

a)

Help

b)

Hurt

18.

Who believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?

a)

WEB Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

19.

Who supported segregation and thought vocational education would bring equality?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

20.

Segregation was legalized by

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

13th Amendment

c)

Black Codes

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

21.

Which came first- Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes?

a)

Black Codes

b)

Jim Crow Laws

22.
_______________ were Northern people who traveled South during Reconstruction.
a)
Carpetbaggers
b)
Scalawags
c)
Sooners
d)
None of these.
23.
The 13th Amendment...
a)
ended slavery in the U.S.
b)
gave citizenship rights to former slaves.
c)
gave former slaves the right to vote.
d)
banned ex-Confederates from voting.
24.
The 14th Amendment...
a)
ended slavery in the U.S.
b)
gave citizenship rights to former slaves.
c)
gave former slaves the right to vote.
d)
banned ex-Confederates from voting.
25.
The 15th Amendment...
a)
ended slavery in the U.S.
b)
gave citizenship rights to former slaves.
c)
gave former slaves the right to vote.
d)
banned ex-Confederates from voting.