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Reconstruction Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States"?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

2.

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

3.

Which amendment states that citizens cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

4.

Fill in the blank: The _______ provided food, clothing, and medicine to newly freed African Americans and Southerners in need after the Civil War.

a)

Radical Republicans

b)

Confederacy

c)

Union

d)

Freedmen's Bureau

5.

True or False: Literacy rates among African Americans grew with the establishment of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) such as Howard University (the late Chadwick Boseman graduated from Howard University in 2000).

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What did economic power mean to newly freed African Americans during Reconstruction in the South? Read the excerpt below to help you answer this question:


In "Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land", Takaki states that "Blacks knew precisely what they needed to raise themselves from freedom to equality...more than education and voting rights, was economic power" (p. 131).

a)

education

b)

voting rights

c)

landownership

d)

none of the above

7.

The following transaction between Polly and landowner Presley George highlights this system that crippled African Americans socially and economically by indebting them to the land they formerly worked on as slaves.

a)

Jim Crow

b)

segregation

c)

sharecropping

d)

Black Codes

8.

Actor Michael William's great-great-grandfather William Murrell emerged from the ordeal of slavery unbowed by ______.

a)

registering to vote

b)

owning 100 acres of land

c)

becoming an entrepreneur

d)

All of the above

9.

In the video, "The Legacies of Reconstruction", what event is considered the second American Reconstruction?

a)

The Civil War

b)

The Civil Rights Movement

c)

The American Revolution

d)

All of the above

10.

In Bryan Stevenson's speech, "We Need to Talk About an Injustice", what injustice is he referring to?

a)

the criminal justice system and how society treats the condemned and the incarcerated

b)

the challenges and problems that humanity depends on

c)

the legacy of Reconstruction

d)

none of the above